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ONE OF the UK’s fastest growing café bakery firms has selected QED Avalon counters for new outlets that it is opening this year.


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Quality Equipment Distributors (QED) is a leading UK designer and supplier of modular bar, coffee shop and food service equipment.


Muffin Break, which opened its first UK café in 2001, has chosen QED’s Avalon patisserie counters because they provide an ideal modular chilled display system for its large selection of freshly baked muffins, cakes, quiches, sandwiches and wraps. The QED counters range in sizes from 600mm to 1800mm wide. They are straight glass models on three display levels with a constant temperature range of +4ºC to +8ºC and generous chilled under-storage space. Muffin Break has opted for a simple white counter base, although wood veneer and coloured laminate finishes are also available.


Recent Muffin Break store openings that feature the QED Avalon display counters include: Middlesbrough, Wigan, Birmingham, Leamington Spa, Wandsworth and Leeds, with more to follow.


Quality Equipment Distributors (QED) 0141 779 9503


WATERLOO Air Products is meeting the air distribution needs of Manchester Metropolitan University’s £75m Business School and Student Hub. Waterloo’s perforated face diffusers, airline linear grilles, louvre faced diffusers and more than 1,273 floor swirl diffusers have been used extensively throughout the award winning building. The 20,000m2 jewel-shaped building comprises three separate administration and teaching blocks, ranging height from four to eight storeys, which are linked by two full-height atria. At the upper levels, bridges connect the blocks, providing additional teaching and break-out spaces. Sustainability was a


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major criteria and is reflected in the design which ensures as much natural daylight as possible enters the building. Solar panels are used along with heat pumps and a water harvesting system enabling rain water to be recycled. The building’s cooling and heating requirements are met using a controlled ventilation system whereby free cooling is achieved for most of the year using displacement ventilation and integrated slab cooling. Waterloo’s air terminal distribution systems feature throughout the building combining functionality with aesthetic requirements to ensure that air supplied into the environment causes no discomfort to occupants. Using an extensive range of two-way and four-way perforated face diffusers, Aircell polymer floor diffusers, linear grilles and louvred face diffusers has resulted in a very effective ventilation system that is helping MMU to meet its energy saving targets. Waterloo Air Products 01622 717861


SILENTAIR has completed the installation of its silent air conditioning system in several audio rooms at ITV MediaCityUK.


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The system achieved a sound measurement of NR14 following tests at the University of Salford (Acoustics Calibration Laboratory) in April 2013 - a level believed to be below that of normal hearing. The fit out of three dubbing theatres and 2voiceover booths at 3sixtymedia, ITV’s production facility at MediaCityUK and two studio spaces in Cardiff marked the first permanent installations by Silentair for a major broadcaster.


Silentair was called on by ITV’s technical production team when the traditional design to cooling had trouble fitting in to the required space. Its approach eliminated the need for large ducting, grilles and attenuators which


allowed the AC component to be placed inside the room. This meant the sound insulation inside the room was not compromised and with the AC operating quietly, sound levels were low enough for spaces to be used effectively. Phil Gillatt, technical director and founder of Silentair, said: “This has been a very significant installation for us. As a young company we have already placed our products in numerous broadcast and radio studios nationwide and in Europe, but working with a broadcaster the size of ITV is a milestone for us.” Silentair


01132 708873


SEYMOUR Manufacturing International (SMI) is supplying its Cold Stop curtains to the NHS Blood and Transplant Centre HQ in Bristol. The curtains offer an alternative to plastic strip curtains or PVC doors used in many coldrooms, with the capacity to save up to 33 per cent on energy bills. Nick Hawker, estates and facilities manager at the NHS centre, said: “We initially installed one of SMI’s Cold Stop curtains on a trial, and it seems to have worked really, really well. So much so, in fact, that we have recently placed an order for another 12 curtain sets.”


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SMI chairman, Brian Seymour said: “This is certainly an exciting new direction for our company – the first real move into the pharmaceutical sector.”


Cold Stop curtains are available in standard widths of 300mm and bespoke heights with deep, clear windows. They can be quickly and easily installed. Energy efficient, they provide reduced wear on evaporator equipment allowing optimum settings to quickly achieve an internal working temperature. SMI www.seymour-mi.com


ACR News May 2014


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