The new, $48 million Aquatic Center at Mylan Park (ACMP) is among the most state-of-the-art indoor pool complexes in West Virginia and now stands as one of nation’s most advanced natatorium designs.

For the past 50 years, engineers have been “designing” duct systems. Quite often, they were not actually designing the systems, but were sizing duct the duct according to some rule of thumb. The rules ...