WSP AT TROX ACADEMY
21/03/2008
The first of a series of exclusive TROX Academy days was attended by twenty engineers from WSP London, Newcastle, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds. The programme for the day was specially designed for WSP and it focussed on new energy saving terminal air conditioning systems.
With multi service chilled beams TROX were able to discuss first principles, design tips, selection and installation of the system. The use of CO2 as a secondary refrigerant was also prominent featuring applications for data centre cooling and dealer desks.
An area that both companies are working on in a joint development is the energy saving resulting from VAV fan coils. Although the work is still ongoing and will not be fully signed off for a couple of months the results so far were reviewed and showed some significant savings in carbon emissions.
John Hinton, Director, WSP London, said, “We discussed the training programme with TROX Academy and adjusted the format to suit our specific requirements. We invited engineers from around our regional offices since we felt there would be a good cross section of opinions. We are particularly attracted to this form of ‘industry training’ since the engineers get the opportunity of seeing tests and demonstrations in the TROX Technical Centre, to complement their technical skills. This ‘hands on’ approach is extended to the factory where there is an opportunity to see these new products and systems actually being manufactured”.
These specific days are open to all consultants and TROX Academy will shortly be hosting engineers from Faber Maunsell. The remaining free dates are 25th and 26th June, 10th and 11th September, 12th and 13th November, and if you are interested contact should be made with Terry Farthing at TROX Academy.
