Air Curtains
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To comply with our minimalist design approach to conceal any item which has no visible architectural merit, we design our air curtains in the same manner.
Standard air curtains have a bulky range of fan coil equipment which we break down into its simplest form and arrange to be installed in an adequately sized and ventilated area as close to the entrance as possible; often within a basement area, storage area, the underside of basement ceilings or a cavity area within a suspended ceiling.
From the location of the fan coil unit, we are able to pipe into the entrance through the floor, the ceiling or sides, the warm air required to provide a full air curtain, enabling the ambient temperature of choice to be maintained within the lobby area of the building. We are able to provide air curtains via electricity or water depending on the M&E requirements of the building and the visible grilles within the entrance are designed as bespoke items, often in stainless steel, to meet the required design intent.
Our air curtains, as with our automated mechanisms, are designed to be suitable for each project that they address, as their efficiency relies on the location and orientation of the building that they are installed in. Sophisticated data and analysis is required to achieve a full and effective air curtain and thus we combine BRE data and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) programming studies to simulate the entrance prior to installation.
The simulations reveal the air recirculation zones, areas of energy losses and levels of turbulence when different air velocities are applied to the model, taking the external factors into account. The result is thus a comparable measured effectiveness of the air curtain at different velocities and volumes and forms the specification for the type and size of fan coil unit and connecting pipe work to be installed.