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Guests at the visually striking and newly opened Ramada Encore London West hotel can enjoy the pleasure of air conditioned bedrooms provided by purpose designed fan coil systems manufactured by Ability Projects Ltd.
The hotel,located at Gypsy Corner on the A40 Western Avenue,has 150 bright,airy and contemporary styled twin,double and family bedrooms fitted with Ability Aurora II fan coil systems,installed in the bulkhead above the room door.
The Aurora II system is the end product of a detailed study of modern hotel air conditioning performance,installation and commissioning requirements and was carried out jointly by Ability Projects,Siemens Building Technologies and Tandy Engineering Services.
The study observes that hotel bedroom air conditioning is characterised by short term cooling and heating cycles,which render the extensive operational capabilities of four pipe fan coil systems largely redundant.
Aurora II overcomes this problem by the use of a control integrated, two pipe changeover fan coil unit,fitted with electric heating and supplied with chilled or LPHW via a heat pump chiller on a seasonal basis as necessary.A heat sensor fitted to the flow side of the fan coil senses the water temperature and closes or opens the unit’s flow valve in order to activate heating or cooling cycles respectively.
Operation of the fan coil unit is regulated by a wall mounted Siemens LCD room temperature controller,which monitors and adjusts room temperatures during cooling and heating cycles,initiates automatic changeover and switches the electric heater and three speed fan throughout normal,energy saving and standby operating modes.
The fan coil units at the Ramada Encore hotel measure just 755mm long by 516mm wide and 235mm deep with capacities up to 1.5kW cooling and operating noise levels of NR30 during the day and NR25 over night.
Standard Aurora II options relevant to hotel applications include quick connection waterside flexible hoses,fully integrated commissioning packages and energy efficient DC fan/motor combinations that offer the facility of remote and step less fan speed control.The remote control system can be interfaced with a simple time clock,hotel booking system or even the room key card system.
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