New Ford showroom uses MHIE air-conditioning systems
Energy-efficient air-conditioning has been provided for Allen Ford’s new car and commercial-vehicles dealership in Swindon using Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Europe VRF and split systems. The premises include 600 m2 for sales and an adjoining 900 m2 building for servicing. The sales building includes air-conditioned showroom, offices and meeting room. The service department has air conditioning in its reception area, offices and canteen.
John Needham of Cooling Techniques sourced the equipment through distributor FM Air. He says, ‘I have used MHIE equipment on numerous projects. It combines high quality with good prices and has never let me down. FM Air gave me valuable help in getting the best specification for this project.’
The specification for the sales building includes a 12 kW VRF outdoor unit serving five ducted indoor units.
With planning constraints requiring low-profile outdoor units, the showroom and meeting room are cooled by seven ducted systems in high-specification single-split configurations with inverter control.
The sales facility has three fresh-air ventilation and heat-exchange units with an airflow of 800 m3/h.
The service centre exploits the extended pipe-run capabilities of KX VRF systems with a single outdoor unit driving two 600 mm-square compact ceiling cassettes in the reception area, separate cassettes in each of the offices and a ducted unit in the canteen.
Systems in both buildings are individually controlled with MHIE’s RCE3 remote controllers.
