19-22001 - Floor Furnace Refurbishment
1.Project Description
The National Research Council of Canada, Construction Research Centre (NRC-Const), in Ottawa, ON; is proposing to refurbish the gas supply piping, ventilation ductwork, and burners along with the burners control system of the Flooring combustion Testing Furnace in the M-59 building located at 1200 Montreal road, Ottawa, ON.
The Flooring combustion Testing Furnace was built in 1959 the research in construction. The Flooring combustion Testing Furnace is used to test new building materials for the building code or the private sector. The NRC recently evaluated new furnace applications and concluded that the existing furnace can be improved based on new design and manufacturing standards, in particular related to Health and Safety operations. The goal of this project is to update the burners and existing gas supply to make the furnace more efficient, easier to operate and to increase the level of the equipment safety.
