AHUs installed at Tata Technologies new European HQ in Warwick

Project Premises: This £20 million development for TATA Technologies in Leamington SPA, Warwick is to house its European headquarters.

Client: BAM Construction Ltd – Midlands.

Consultant: J.B.R. Consulting Ltd – Worcestershire.

Designed to house 600 staff inclusive of 100 currently based at TATA Coventry office. The development is on a 3.85-acre Greenfield site at Tachbrook Park, and will consist of a 63,000sqft office building.

The building is designed by architects Webb Gray, who have featured in the three-storey curtain walled building, two wings with a central core which includes natural stone, low carbon technology building services, and a natural light environment.

Situated at Tachbrook Park the consultants specified six off Air Handlers Northern air2O rooftop central.

Station packaged air handling systems.

The packaged air handling units incorporate:

• Air2O two staged evaporative cooling units model CRS – 12.500 hybrid, complete with intake filters and UV filters, DX coil and compressors.

This project comprised six off CRS 15.000 air2O units which incorporated a first stage direct evaporative cooling section, a second stage in direct evaporative cooling section, with a final DX 35Kw stage cooling system all inbuilt within the air2O unit.

Air2O duty – summer cooling

Two stage filtration, rotary thermal wheel for winter heat recovery in compliance with Eco Directive Recovery Efficiency.

Air handling unit winter energy recovery

A mixing box arrangement controls the winter/summer functions, with the facility to introduce recirculated air for fast warm up.

A LTHW heating coil is provided on the leaving air side of the air handling unit capable of raising the air from 5°C to 30°C.

• The Air2O/Air Handlers integrated unit is powered and controlled by an intelligent packaged control system. The integrated units come fully factory fitted with all wiring and controls. All units are controls factory pre-commissioned, but, require site commissioning after airflow balancing. The control systems used in the integrated controls package have built in Modbus and MP-Bus with display and Modbus VFD.

Operating Power Statement

Air Handlers Northern Ltd., also provided four off conventional heat recovery packaged air handling units with on board package factory fitted and pre-wired control systems.

Two of these air handling units supplied by Air Handlers are fully refrigerant piped and insulated on site by thew refrigeration division.