CASE STUDIES
Penthouse apartments look to LG for heating and air conditioning Barons Keep in Barons Court, West London is a 1930’s Art Deco apartment
development that has seen high levels of refurbishment in recent years as the area has grown in attraction for Londoners and overseas property buyers looking for top of the range accommodation. It’s an area that lost its appeal in the second half of the twentieth century but has been seen as a cost-eff ective area to buy in, as property values head back up in secondary areas of the capital.
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hat were large but fairly basic apartments have seen the addition of luxury fi xtures and fi ttings, especially
in the top fl oor penthouse properties, including large roof lights to make them lighter and brighter throughout, and high-quality air conditioning and heating to make them perfect homes all year round. Add a roof garden for parties and barbeques when the London weather permits, private lift access from the ground fl oor and you have the privacy, the space and the luxury to enjoy a very special apartment in an increasingly desirable area of London. The consultant, Consult JA, and LG, through its distributor Pacair, decided to specify and install a Multi V S system - a compact yet powerful Mini VRF air conditioning solution for residences and small offi ces that provides high performance with low operation costs. And in addition, they installed a Therma V Monobloc air to water heat pump unit to each of the penthouse apartments being refurbished. The LG Therma V units are the main source of heating and hot water and the Multi V S Air Conditioning system is to be used for the cooling. It can also be used to back up the heating if needed.
The Therma V system will prioritise the hot
water, so that if there is a high demand for hot water the Air Conditioning system can be called on to heat the apartment. It’s a belt and braces
approach to ensure that the occupants of the apartments are never short of hot water or heating. Both systems have external and internal units – with the external units placed on the roof garden and services piped into the indoor space to hot water cylinders in the services area of the apartments. In charge of system design and
recommendation was Eric Zeline CEng, who is Specifi cation Sales Engineer at key LG Distributor, Pacair: “This combination of units from LG met the design brief from the consultant for the work on these apartments,” he says. “The footprint is quite small despite the size of the apartments and we needed to work hard to keep all the equipment and pipework within the framework of the apartment. We had to conform to line- of-sight restrictions and keep the external units below the low parapet wall on the rooftop garden
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area. We were able to integrate the controls to work well with multi manufacturer products and we have specifi ed a system that off ers high energy effi ciency in both heating and cooling modes. And as always it was imperative that we kept noise levels down to a very low level which we were able to achieve with the LG equipment.” Thain Gummer is national sales manager, air conditioning and energy solutions for LG in the UK and Ireland: “The installation went very well and we have a system in place that is a credit to everyone who worked on it. It benefi ts from excellent design and installation and off ers a very impressive heating and air conditioning system that refl ects the quality of the apartments and their surroundings. Barons Court is an up-and-coming location in the capital and these apartments sit well in the area. Pacair has done them proud.”
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