Marshall Space Flight Center, Cooling Tower, South of Building 4200, Huntsville

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The cooling tower screen is a component of Marshall Space Flight Center s Administrative Complex, which houses the center s administrative functions. Description: The x cooling tower screen is located south of Building (see HABS No. AL-999-A). The structure sits on a concrete pad and is comprised of steel I-beams standing every with screens of clay tiles each measuring 8" x 8" x 6" deep between them. The walls stand tall. After the construction of Building the structure enclosed three cooling towers and was therefore divided into three rooms measuring wide, wide, and wide respectively. Each room contained a cooling tower that sat in a basin.

Cooling towers 1 and 2 had 8"-pipelines equipped with butterfly controls that connected them to the 10" and 12" lines with a check valve that ran to the ground floor of the mechanical control room of Building Cooling tower 3 connected via 8" and 10" lines to Building (see HABS No. AL-999-B). A metal door on the south fa ade provides access. At some point post-1978, the cooling towers were removed.1 History: Little is known about this structure, but in the building contained three cooling towers manufactured by the Marley Company of Mission, Kansas.2

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Recording of Marshall Space Flight Center s Administrative Complex was completed in by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), part of Heritage Documentation Programs, for NASA s George C. Marshall Space Flight Center It was conducted under the general direction of Richard O Connor, Chief, Heritage Documentation Programs and Melvin Mckinstry, NASA, Thomas Behrens and 1 Metro Contract Serv. Inc., Building Cooling Tower, Screen & Basin, Plans, Sections & Details, September 1, Drawing No. AB-4200-A23, and Cooling Towers, Plan & Schematic, Drawing No. AB-4200-P12. 2 Manufacturer model numbers were: NC Series NC Series, and Keystone Lo-Line, see Cooling Towers Plan & Schematic, Drawing No. AB-4200-P12. MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, COOLING TOWER SCREEN HABS No.

AL-999-E (Page 2) Mark Schara of Heritage Documentation Programs supervised the project. The recording team consisted of Doug Bacon (Auburn University), Paul Davidson (HABS), Jobie Hill (University of Oregon), and Ryan Pierce (HABS). The large-format photographs were produced by HABS Photographer Renee Bieretz.