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Product page: Chilled Beams
For more information contact:
Veikko Karner
Sales & Marketing Manager,
Fläkt Woods Australia
Tel: +61 24648 8700
veikko.karner@flaktwoods.com
Anders Martensson
Group Communications Manager,
Fläkt Woods Group
Tel: +46 730 974 800
anders.martensson@flaktwoods.com
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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 that are being supplied are double width QPSA passive beams, which are powerful high capacity beams (570 mm wide) that 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 water based cooling systems, as the energy needed to provide the cooling requirement is less than cooling through the air. Indoor air quality was another fundamental criterion, 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 natural convection circulation. The air is supplied to the room via a separate supply air system.
Commenting on the award, Veikko Karner, Fläkt Wood’s Sales & Marketing Manager in Australia 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 that 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.
Passive Chilled Beams
The passive chilled beams are either ceiling installed, in which case they lie flush with the suspended ceiling, or above/beneath the ceiling. In this case they are being installed above. The passive chilled beams are available in lengths 1.2 - 4.2 m at 60 cm intervals. In installations with passive chilled beams separate diffusers distribute the supply air.
Chilled beams are self regulating so when a load in the space increases, the temperature difference between the air temperature and mean water temperature increases which in turn increases the amount of cooling output produced by the beam. Subsequently, when the load in the space reduces, the output reduces.
CCT Tower 2
Tower 2 is the second stage of the City Central multiuse development and will be one of Adelaide’s most technologically advanced office towers. Architects Woods Bagot has designed a stunning building which also features two levels of basement car parking.
Situated on the south-western corner of King William and Waymouth Streets, Tower 2 will be the gateway to the City Central Precinct, which Caversham is in the process of transforming into a prestige commercial, retail, entertainment and possible hotel and residential accommodation.
--- Press release 2007-06-14
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