Aermec six-pipe boosts campus efficiency

UK: Aermec heating and cooling equipment is providing the ideal conditions for a new £38m construction and engineering centre in Luton.

Barnfield College’s new £38m four-storey Construction and Engineering Centre opened in February adjacent to the main college building. The state-of-the-art facility replaces the former campus on Enterprise Way and provides cutting-edge training spaces, high-spec workshops, modern classrooms and collaborative breakout spaces. 

The new facility employs Aermec’s CPS six-pipe multifunction system and NRP chiller, TRS heat recovery units and 64 VED fan coil units.

This is the first installation in the UK for Aermec’s CPS multifunction unit which was launched in mainland Europe at the start of 2024. The six-pipe unit delivers simultaneous heating and cooling and provides domestic hot water up to 73ºC.

Calorifiers are used to store the 20,000 litres of hot water, significantly reducing the carbon footprint compared to using a traditional boiler.

In previous building projects Barnfield College had relied on VRF systems and traditional boilers for hot water. But it was keen to migrate away from these systems and assess alternative solutions that could offer tangible energy-efficiency improvements in its buildings and the reductions in energy loads and carbon footprints that it was looking to achieve.

Aermec collaborated with its Irish distributor Shilliday Refrigeration, Irwin M&E and building services experts WP3 Consultants that focused on the college’s environmental impact.