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News Release from: Trox UK | Subject: Multi Service Chilled Beams
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 March 2003
Trox Cools Riverside
Trox UK installs over £2 million-worth of Multi-Service Chilled Beams (MSCBs) into the £38 million Riverside House office development adjacent to London's Globe Theatre.
Trox UK has installed over £2 million-worth of Multi-Service Chilled Beams (MSCBs) into the £38 million Riverside House office development adjacent to London's Globe Theatre, which overlooks the River Thames Trox, which won the contract to supply and install the passive beams, purpose-designed the units to meet the tough criteria set by contractor, Bovis Lend Lease
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 25 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Among these criteria was that the beams fit into an area with limited headroom.
Since the MSCB does not require a suspended ceiling, the room height is increased, and the system can take advantage of free cooling afforded by the building's fabric, cutting running costs and boosting energy efficiency.
Trox worked in close partnership with the Riverside House's design team, including architect, Renton Howard Wood Levine, and building services consultant, GW Building Services Consultancy, both of London, to produce the most appropriate design.
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Around 3,350m of Trox's passive MSCBs, containing lighting and sprinklers, are fixed to the ceilings.
The units, which are a cost-effective alternative to suspended ceilings, offer a host of business benefits.
For example, they can accommodate sprinkler systems, public address systems, smoke detectors, PIR sensors, BMS cables, voice and data cables and CCTV.
They also allow, for the first time, the appearance of the building services to be styled by the architect.
As well as their aesthetic advantages, Trox MSCBs also offer significant economic benefits.
They can, for instance, take natural thermal cooling from the exposed mass of the concrete ceiling soffit, thus cutting energy consumption.
On top of this, offsite pre-assembly significantly reduces installation and commissioning times and costs, and allows simple on-site co-ordination and installation.
The result is that the units reduce whole life costs compared to traditional fan coil unit systems, and they slash capital costs when compared to a suspended ceiling with separate building services.
The Riverside House project posed considerable challenges.
External cladding panels and internal fittings of the existing 11-storey building, which was built in the 1960s, have been removed.
An adjacent 1970s building, called Bear Wharf, has been demolished, together with a two-story structure at the rear of the building.
A steel exo-skeleton has been erected around the retained core of the building and tied into the existing concrete structure to extend the floor area, and to accommodate the main architectural feature - a steel spinnaker.
Two additional steel-framed storeys have been built on the roof, and a 13-storey steel framed structure built to the rear of the existing structure.
The employer for the Riverside House development was Chelsfield plc, and the project manager was Bureau 4, London.
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