Improved Indoor Environments forMuseums and Cultural Institutions
For museums and cultural institutions, maintaining precise indoor environmental conditions is critical to preserving priceless art collections and enhancing visitor experiences.
Leading museums and cultural institutions leverage Altura’s data-driven commissioning and controls optimization services to maintain precise temperature, humidity and pressurization standards even through the most extreme weather events. This enables curators to preserve precious artifacts, while reducing operating costs, deferred maintenance, and costly penalties from non-compliance with building energy performance standards.
We understand your Challenges, and we’re here to help
| Problem | Solution |
|---|---|
Art PreservationArt collections are negatively impacted by inconsistent indoor environmental conditions |
Commission new and/or existing HVAC equipment and controls to optimize and maintain consistent temperature, humidity, and pressurization levels. |
Capital PlanningLimited operating budgets and increasing deferred maintenance backlogs |
Leverage data-driven tools and insights to optimize capital investments across deferred maintenance, energy efficiency and decarbonization objectives. |
Regulations and PenaltiesCostly penalties and non-compliance with local building energy performance standards |
Achieve peak performance by resolving “root cause” issues and consistently meet or exceed building energy performance standards. |
“Our partnership with Altura helped us gain visibility into our building performance and how to comply with building energy performance standards in Washington D.C. We highly recommend Altura as a trusted energy efficiency and controls partner for Museums and Cultural Institutions.”
Aaron Ross, PhD
Chief Operating Officer, Museum of the Bible, Washington D.C.
Find out how we’re saving our clients
$7M+
in operating costs annually
Speak with an Expert
Ryan Gaylord
Museums and Cultural Institutions Studio Lead
Ryan Gaylord is Principal and Cofounder of Altura. His focus is committed to driving change and market transformation in the energy and environmental sectors using advanced technical approaches by helping clients to implement sustainability strategic plans and targeted initiatives to reduce energy, water, waste, greenhouse gas emissions, and operating costs.
