Toshiba Carrier UK air conditioning systems portable air conditioning units news 240506

Subscribe to newsletter

Editor's Note: Toshiba Carrier UK
provide:-

air conditioning systems
portable air conditioning units

Request Information

Home
Include Article
Advertise

Links
Request Information
Terms of use
Contact

Request Facilities / Interiors product information

Request Architectural product information External

Request Architectural product information Internal

Request Mechanical HVAC product information

Request Electrical product information

Carrier cools important art collection

Carrier Air Conditioning has had a comprehensive involvement in satisfying the new air conditioning requirements for the refurbishment and remodelling of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Six Carrier chillers of different sizes, from the small 33 kW Aquasnaps to the medium-sized 250 kW units, coupled with forty-five of Carrier’s most advanced 39HQ modular air handling units, have provided much of the solution to a change in requirements from the original ‘seventies basic heating and cooling specification.

Designed between 1974 and 1976 and opened in 1978, this was Norman Foster’s first major public building. It is iconic and quite massive with a vast multi-storey open exhibition space for the main collection. Below this, new galleries and lecture theatres have been added, and the two elements of the Centre have additionally been neatly bridged by a new gallery building and entrance area.

The Sainsbury Collection is a very personal, ‘living’ collection that is still being added to, but it is also a study collection with a University Department built around it. It has its specialisms such as objects from the cultures of the South Pacific, and also contains famous works by Henry Moore, Francis Bacon and Giacometti.

The buildings were designed for future extension. However, the original air conditioning requirements only envisaged providing far less stringent conditions for the preservation of the collection and the comfort of visitors and students than are expected today. The air conditioning equipment also operated with refrigerants that now need replacing with more environmentally acceptable alternatives.

All of the new equipment has had to fit in with the stringent new regulatory regime. The air handlers for example comply with BS/EN 1886. These and the chillers are Eurovent certified. Yet it all still had to fit into the spaces occupied by the previous generation of equipment.

Two of Carrier’s 30 series air-cooled chillers, providing 244 kW of cooling each for the new gallery extension that joins the two earlier buildings, had to be fitted into the existing basement plant room. This could only be accessed from beautifully landscaped lawns below the building, and even then the equipment had to be craned in through a grille space in pieces and re-assembled within the room.

Additionally, two Aquasnap mini-chillers have been provided to supply chilled water for the new Carrier Holland Heating air handling units serving the School of World Art Studies and Museology and the public restaurant areas. These units had to be compact and slim as the only place for them is close to the wall in a loading bay used by large trucks. Clearance was vital. The Carrier units are only 478 cms deep.

Upstairs in the main gallery the Carrier Holland Heating air handling units have had to be fitted inside the 3 metre skin outer walling, replacing the more basic original units – fortunately the latest 39HQ Holland Heating units are modular. Air is delivered to the large main gallery space via giant air nozzles in the original Italian louver-blind system that covers the walls and ceiling. Enormous volumes of air need to be moved by the air handling plant as the space is vast. The total building area is now well over 6000 square metres.

Email: ukmarketing@carrier.utc.com