Simultaneous cooling and heating: heat recovery in an office building in Gaimersheim
Gaimersheim. Deutschland
2021
VRF, Offices, Others
Outdoor units:
Indoor units:
Challenge
Solutions & Tech Applied
The installers, RGS GmbH from Ingolstadt, had installed numerous Panasonic ECOi 2- and 3-pipe systems in prior years with a cumulative cooling capacity of over 8.2 MW. Proceeding from a wealth of experience in all phases from planning to installation and maintenance, the entire project could be implemented in just 20 months. To offer employees the best possible comfort, 3-pipe direct evaporation indoor units were chosen. Automatic shade control and window incidence deliver intelligent efficiency: Depending on where the sun is, the shades automatically retract or deploy to protect employees from intense solar radiation. Fresh air supply to the interior offices, storage area and workshop on the ground floor was realized through the combination of a ventilation system with a PACi air conditioning system. RGS planned and implemented the monitoring and control of the ventilation systems.
Every employee can now customize his or her comfort zone. When all employees leave the building and the security systems are activated, the building control is automatically placed in Standby Mode, thus automatically setting all climate control variables to their pre-programmed values. The intelligent, user-friendly controller was developed and programmed in-house by an employee of RGS GmbH. A high-level controller from Saia Burgess Controls was used for this purpose. The air flow from the outdoor units is dissipated out of sight through three large openings in the roof and a row of weather-resistant grates on a protrusion on the building roof.