Fläkt Woods Ltd - Designers choose Chilled Beams on 5 Star
Energy Building
Fläkt Woods has been awarded a contract for the
supply of 689 chilled beams for one of Australia’s most
prestigious, energy conscious new buildings, Adelaide’s
City Central Redevelopment, Tower 2.
Designed to achieve Australia’s 5 Star Green Rating, as
well as a 5 Star Energy Rating, the new building will be
amongst the most advanced buildings in Australia,
capturing best practice from around the world and fully
integrating Green Building principles into the design.
The beams, which are also available in the UK, are being
supplied are double width QPSA passive beams (580 mm
wide), which form part of Fläkt Wood’s Flexicool® range
of chilled beams.
A 5 Star rating requires a building to have the maximum
energy saving initiatives. This led designers to specify
a waterbased cooling systems, as the energy needed to
provide the cooling requirement is less than cooling
through the air. Indoor air quality was another
fundamental criteria, and it is recognised that chilled
beams lead to better working environments.
QPSA passive beams easily answered these requirements.
They are also extremely flexible and easily adaptable to
meet most requirements. They cool a room by means of
convection, so they have no supply air, but are based on
the principle that circulating air is caused to flow
down through the cooling coil by gravity flow natural
convection circulation. The air is supplied to the room
via a separate supply air system.
Commenting on the award, Veikko Kärner, Fläkt Wood’s
Sales & Marketing Manager for Chilled Beams, said “Our
QPSA chilled beams are the right choice for the
environment, and because they have low water pressure
drop, they also have low operation costs. This contract
demanded a flexible choice and our beams are ideally
suited as they can be adjusted in position in the
relevant room as required, which makes installation easy
as you do not need to choose which room a chilled beam
is to be used in before hand”.
Located at 121-129 King William Street the new building
will be of a similar height to the existing building
which will be demolished to the ground floor level, with
the basement being retained. The scheme is the
continuation of Caversham Property Developments, City
Central Precinct redevelopment programme, the most
prestigious and largest single infrastructure
undertaking in Adelaide.
It will provide approximately 13,000 sq m of office
space over 12 levels together with ground floor retail
areas.
Email: info.uk@flaktwoods.com
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Hill Farm, Linton Hill, Maidstone, Kent ME17 4AL
Tel : 01622 745333
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