Air Design to supply air conditioning for new development
Optus Australia will soon move their head office and 6,500 staff to Centre Court Office Park, North Ryde, New South Wales - the largest single tenant campus-style workplace in Australia.
Queensland company, Air Design , is responsible for supplying the air conditioning solution that will maintain critical space temperature and humidity condition in the communications, server and UPS rooms of this prestigious site. They also supplied Modutherm Air handling Units for the air conditioning of the general office areas.
Still under construction, the campus will be set in naturally landscaped surrounds with retail facilities, a child care centre, sports facility and food court.
The development has been designed to achieve a 4 ½ star SEDA rating and will provide an international benchmark in commercial campus design.
Four five-level and two four-level commercial office buildings, all with two level basement car parks, will deliver approximately 85,000m2 net lettable area and over 2,000 car parking spaces.
Air Design was chosen to supply the air conditioning solution because the mechanical contractors, Allstaff Hastie, just could not go past the RC Group’s “neXt” series to do the job for the site.
The “neXt” series is the latest generation CRAC unit from RC Group. It offers EC fan drive technology and the latest “MP COM” microprocessor enabling seamless interface with the world’s leading BMS technologies to provide high level monitoring.
Buildings A, B, C, D and F at Centre Court Office Park are serviced by water cooled DX units connected to the condenser water system. Building E is serviced by dual function DX/chilled water units where the primary cooling mode is chilled water from a dedicated chiller, with the water cooled DX system as back-up.
All paired units operate duty/standby for 100% redundancy and the plant will operate continuously 24/7.
The units are readily identifiable by their new clean line charcoal cabinets which complement modern computer room architecture.
Centre Court Office Park has been designed with energy efficiency in mind. According to Air Design’s Sales Director Neil Bone, today’s building owners and developers have a real focus on energy efficiency that did not exist previously.
28-Aug-2006