Fläkt Woods, a global company providing solutions for ventilation and air treatment for buildings as well as fan solutions for industry and infrastructure applications, 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 5 Star Green Rating and 5 Star Energy Rating, the new building will be amongst the most advanced buildings in Australia, reveals the company’s press release. Designers specified 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. Fläkt Woods’s Flexicool range QPSA passive beams (570 mm wide) 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”.