Ciat solutions for historic Liverpool hotel
12th August 2024
UK: Ciat air handers and heat recovery units have been employed at the new Radisson RED Liverpool, a Grade II-listed property with roots dating back to the 1800s.
The property, which was originally a hotel known as Northern Western Hall before becoming student accommodation in the 1990s, underwent extensive renovations to transform it back to its original use as a 10-storey hotel with 201 guest rooms and suites.
Five ClimaCiat Airaccess units from the company’s flagship AHU range, with integrated heat recovery systems. Additionally, four CiatESA heat recovery units provide filtered airflow and temperature and CO2 control for the meeting rooms in the basement area.
“Due to site issues, we found storage for the AHUs and organised redelivery to meet the requirements of the site. Due to the size of one of the heat recovery units, we needed to provide our flat-pack service to be able to get it down to the basement,” revealed CIAT UK&I head of sales Dan Wood.
The equipment has been fully coastal-protected from the saline environment of the hotel’s close proximity to Liverpool Docks.
Each AHU came fully pre-built from the factory and mounted on a Ciat monobloc chassis solution to enable each AHU to be lifted as one whole piece to save time, overcoming challenges related to road closures during the project.
The first crane lift with three of the AHUs happened overnight as the council couldn’t grant road closures during normal working hours.
