Retrofitting Seattle’s Mount Baker Ridge and Mercer Island Tunnels using a Saccardo Nozzle.
Innovative design of Seattle’s SR 99 tunnel facilities – including ventilation – required close coordination of static and dynamic safety systems for both emergency and normal operating conditions.
Designing and procuring a ventilation system can be a daunting task. Everyone has their own ideas of how a ventilation system should look. But, as the saying goes, “there is more than one way to skin a cat.”
A look at some of the ventilation products and service providers for the tunneling industry.