Murrieta Fire Station

Pilot Program in cooperation with The City of Murrieta Fire Department and Deep Energy Solutions to apply ACS CIC 4.0 to a cinder block Wall at Murrieta Fire Station #1 to block solar heat loading
Reduce Heat Load caused by Solar Radiation
There is one HVAC unit to cool all three of these rooms see diagram below. Solar heat loading on the cinder block wall is radiating into sleeping quarter 1 raising the temperature of this room. In order to make sleeping quarter 1 more comfortable the AC thermostat is being set to 66°F which is causing sleeping quarter 2 and the Living/Dining Areas to be very cold. Heat would radiate out of this wall through the night making sleeping uncomfortable.
Goal: Apply ACS CIC 4.0 to exterior wall of sleeping quarter 1 to block solar heat loading to allow the thermostat to be set higher and make all 3 rooms more comfortable.
Application
ACS CIC 4.0 was applied to the west facing wall as shown in the diagrams above on September 12, 2017. The final coating of ACS CIC 4.0 was tinted to match the building. However, the original color of this wall was a lighter color than the building. You can see the lighter color in the back portion of the wall visible in the picture above. On some days the exterior wall measures at hotter temperature than before the coating was applied due to the darker color being a heat sink, but the interior wall was cooler due to the thermal insulating properties of the ACS CIC 4.0.
Before coating with ACS CIC 4.0 - 58°F blocked by the wall

After applying ACS CIC 4.0 – 79.2°F blocked by the wall - 21°F Increase in insulation
