HERON HOUSE - TROX AESTHETIC FLEXIBILITY PROVES DECISIVE
12/05/2008
Leading air distribution system provider, TROX UK, has supplied and installed a range of specially designed multi-service chilled beams and fan coil units at Heron House, an architecturally striking, eight storey building in High Holborn, London, which contains a mix of retail space, commercial offices and residential flats.
The 10-week refurbishment project, worth more than £600,000 to Norfolk-based TROX, involved supplying and fitting 1,274 linear metres of MSCB’s containing smoke sensors, lighting and emergency lighting, PIR lighting control, speaker / PA and control valves. TROX also installed 27 of its standard water-side fan coil units, plus a range of attenuators and grilles.
The low floor to ceiling height meant that TROX was the only company that could supply a solution to meet the demanding aesthetic and performance criteria laid out by the client, Arlington Estates.
“The 63 beams installed on each of five floors of Heron House are unique,” explained Mike Gosling, Sales Manager Chilled Systems, with TROX, “Every beam had to be designed to suit the unusual chevron-shaped building and fit in with bulkheads and the angled front aspect of the building. It is testament to our flexibility and ability to work closely with the architect and m&e contactor that we achieved both an aesthetic and performance driven solution.”
“The TROX supply, delivery and installation package has enormous benefits not matched by any other supplier when it comes to such a complex solution,” he continued. “The feature that makes TROX special is the tight liaison between our factory and on-site workforces. If we encounter problems on site we can rectify them more quickly because of the close working relationship we have with our manufacturing team. This enables us to be far more responsive to our customers’ needs and to sort out potential problems before they have an impact on the programme.”
The demanding performance criteria for Heron House meant that maximum cooling output was required, leading to detailed selections of active beam sections being carried out by TROX technical engineers.
The architect for the Heron House project was Scott Brownrigg, the consulting engineer was IEI, the main contractor was Parkeray and the M&E contractor was MJ Lonsdale.
