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SPONSORS INSTALLATION NEWS Condair in tune with Steinway
Condair’s steam humidifiers are playing a vital role in maintaining the exceptional craftsmanship involved in the production of Steinway’s famous pianos.
Steinway & Sons recently refurbished its London showroom in Marylebone and needed to create the optimum environmental conditions to prevent the wood used to craft these precision instruments from warping.
Condair’s resistive steam (RS) humidifiers were specified and then installed in three rooms in the building, including the basement where the workshop is situated. All the units are feeding steam into air handling units to maintain the vital humidity levels required.
Steinway’s UK managing director, Craig Terry, explained: “Dryness is the enemy of pianos so humidity is really important. We need 40% to 50% humidity all the time to protect the wood, whether they’re in the showroom or the workshop. Condair’s units are ideal for the job and because we rely so heavily on the reliability of the
humidifiers, we also contracted with them to service the humidifiers at regular intervals.” The Condair RS humidifiers installed at Steinway are capable of creating up to 16kg/h of humidity but the range has models offering maximum outputs from 5 to 160kg/h. The humidifier delivers accurate control without the expense of plastic disposable boiling cylinders, simplifying maintenance and keeping downtime to a minimum. An advanced touchscreen control panel makes operation simple.
Dave Marshall-George, UK sales director at Condair, added: “Humidity control for Steinway is of particular importance during winter in the UK. As soon as the weather turns cold, indoor humidity may drop below the required 40%RH. However, air conditioning systems will also dry the air, so the humidification system will have been in regular use.
Basically, whenever there’s a requirement to precisely control the environmental conditions around the pianos, the humidifiers will automatically do exactly what’s needed of them.
www.condair.co.uk Gilberts helps the Royal Albert Hall set the stage for the future
The challenge of taking one of the world’s most iconic landmarks, the 150yearold, Grade I listed Royal Albert Hall into the 21st Century has been met by innovative and pioneering
engineering solutions from Gilberts Blackpool.
Bradgate’s brief was to provide a solution that would invisibly integrate under the floor of the 1870s original timber framed seating of the Rausing Circle to discharge and filter air via displacement without affecting the audience’s enjoyment of proceedings. Operating noise had to be kept to a minimum. Fire protection had to be optimised.
Gilberts supported M&E contractor Bradgate to achieve effective yet discreet ventilation of the Hall’s main auditorium. The ventilation upgrade is just part of a major refurbishment programme to preserve and protect the building to reduce the impact of ageing.
Gilberts took the basic concept of its GFS swirl floor diffuser and design-engineered bespoke accessories to achieve, in one easy to install unit, all the elements required. With the addition of a sleeve housing an intumescent fire block and damper below the diffusers addressed the fire protection and performance specification. Various versions were produced, depending on the location of the diffuser in the steps or the floor of the auditorium.
In total, some 650 of the bespoke diffusers have been installed strategically throughout the Circle Level under the 1,500 seats. The diffusers deliver cooler high levels of air at low level with rapid mixing and entrainment into the seating area right where the audience needs it, displacing the existing, warmer, stale/used air upward to be extracted at high level. The intumescent block can achieve protection for up to 60 minutes. Neal Hockley, building engineer at Royal Albert Hall, said: “Having seen the ventilation in action in the auditorium, we can be satisfied that visitors can fully enjoy the music and enjoy the ambience with good environmental conditions.”
gilbertsblackpool.com Callisto stars at Premier League training ground
Callisto from Luceco has been installed at an academy base for a Premier League training ground near Birmingham.
Callisto is a contemporary and stylish linear LED surface mounted luminaire, offering over 100,000 hours of maintenance free, operational life and was specified for this state-of-the-art cutting edge, sports, and scientific technology centre.
With an efficacy of 135 Llm/cW, and lumen output variants ranging from 11,000lm up to 32,000lm, Callisto benefits from IK10 rating so can be used in semi industrial applications as well as recreational and sports facilities, offering both wide and narrow optical light distribution. Ceres was also a principal luminaire alongside the Callisto. The Ceres range offers up to 147 Llm/cW with 100,000 hours working life, suitable for applications with high mounting locations where re lamping can be both hazardous and expensive due to hire of special equipment and downtime. IP65 rated, Ceres is available with on/off presence detection options, often a requirement in commercial and industrial
applications and 60, 90 and 120-degree lens variations. Options include two, three or five row LED housing possibilities and like Callisto, is available as fixed output, DALI dimmable, emergency back-up variants and Luceco’s Wireless Lighting Controls, Platform and Elevate. Conference facilities, match analysis rooms and offices were lit with a combination of Leren, LuxFrame and Ice, all highly contemporary energy saving luminaires. Offering both upward and downward light distribution, Leren benefits from through-wiring, including electrical connectors as standard, to provide standalone pendent style illumination as at the training facility, or continuous run installations.
Cost effective lighting was an essential element for this state-of-the-art sports facility, and Callisto is performing a starring role at this Midland’s based, football club’s training ground.
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www.luceco.com Toshiba SHRMe heat recovery VRF solution chosen for COVID19 testing laboratory
A Toshiba Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) air conditioning system with heat recovery is providing a highquality, stable indoor environment for staff at a new NHS COVID19 testing facility in the South West of England.
The M&E project, headed by contractor Totus, involved the transformation of a 5,000m2 industrial warehouse into a modern, high-tech laboratory with administration offices. The fast-track project, part of the UK's national testing programme, was completed in under 12 weeks. The building services for the centre were designed to meet the exacting standards for performance and reliability required by the laboratory, and to ensure the project could be delivered within the challenging timescale. The ventilation system is designed to meet the requirements of Containment 2 (CL2) laboratory classification, providing 10 changes of air per hour.
Richard Bell, director of Totus, who headed the project, said: "We specified Toshiba as
we have worked with the company and its products before and have total confidence in the reliability and performance of the equipment. It was a double reassurance that the equipment was stocked locally, and Toshiba had specialist staff on hand to support the project."
The Toshiba SHRM-e heat recovery system provides cooling and heating for the centre's laboratories, offices and staff welfare areas. Toshiba VRF condensing units are also used in conjunction with third-party AHUs on the site to provide high- efficiency, direct expansion (DX) capabilities, with a total heating and cooling capacity of 1.3MW.
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