The new Gettysburg Battlefield Museum and Visitor's Center is a world class facility worthy of America's most famous civil war site.  The project included the development of a 140,000 square foot Museum and Visitor Center on a 100-acre site.  Designed to accommodate over two million annual visitors, the Center is home to the newly-restored Cyclorama, a 360-degree, 100-foot diameter painting depicting the epic events of July 1863.

Century provided the design of heating, cooling, and ventilation systems for the nearly 250,000 square feet of visitor galleries, exhibit space, food service areas, and theaters in the new Center.  The Center is designed for LEED^® Silver Certification and incorporates state-of-the-art HVAC systems featuring ground source heat exchange technologies designed to provide critical control over relative humidity in sensitive spaces. 

Humidifiers and dehumidifiers were designed to respond to a dew point sensor mounted in the ductwork after the dry air and wet air flows have been well mixed.

• Energy performance optimized by utilizing an earth coupled geothermal system.
• Fundamental commissioning insured that the building energy related systems were installed, calibrated, and performing per project performance.
• Separate exposure control zones for HVAC to improve energy performance.
• HVAC subsystems separated into different occupied zones to enable varied unoccupied controls throughout the building.
• Central chiller system to meet humidity control requirements.