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What a Breeze
When Welconstruct Customer Solutions was given the contract to turn an old factory into
a modern distribution centre for ChoicesUK, it specified Breezair to ensure that its
picking staff could work during the summer when inside temperatures would reach in
excess of 30°C.
The solution to keeping efficiently”, concluded Jay Wiggins
ChoicesUK’s 9,000 sq m “As it is single phase it is very
distribution centre cool came with economic to run and the bill for water
a Breezair Evaporative Cooling was less than £300 for the year.”
System, from Seeley International The cooling system is housed in a
(Europe), and the system has simple, clean, ultra-modern designed
reduced inside temperatures to a plastic casing, specially developed to
comfortable 22°C, even on the withstand all weather conditions; the
hottest day. Breezair's state-of-the-art components
ChoicesUK is one of the largest include an amazing world-patented
home entertainment chains in the UK, water distribution system, which
with 190 stores nationwide. delivers continuous, balanced water
Continuing expansion of both its coverage to all the heat exchanger
stores and website necessitated the pads. The patented system ensures
company acquiring additional storage close to cost effective, it was quick and easy to install, maximum cooling efficiency and minimal
the company’s headquarters in Peterborough. maintenance is minimal and it is also maintenance problems.
Once Welconstruct had fitted out the environmentally friendly.” An innovatively designed, aerodynamic fan
warehouse with a mezzanine floor, offices and The Breezair Evaporative Cooling System provides a constant even flow of air over the
racking, it turned its attention to cooling. covers all essential areas within the heat exchanger pads to provide a welcome
Welconstruct offered the options of air warehouse complex including the storage, cool breeze with minimal noise and low
conditioning, a ventilation system or Breezair. picking and packing environments. The energy consumption. Other pioneering
The company settled on the Breezair option system has been configured so that the 4-way components include a highly efficient water
after rejecting air conditioning as plenums direct fresh cooled air into the pump that guarantees constant and reliable
prohibitively expensive to install and run and picking and packing areas. Although only cooling when most needed, and a long lasting
a ventilation system as inappropriate for the installed on the first floor, on hot summer days variable speed motor that gives maximum
building. the cool air continues to flow on and down to comfort level control.
Having already installed Breezair the ground floor to help reduce temperatures “As the price of warehousing soars, more
evaporative cooling into a previous warehouse there as well. and more businesses are looking for ways of
installation, Welconstruct was already aware At the heart of the Breezair installation is maximising space”, said Simon Wilkins. “In
of Breezair’s cost effective cooling Seeley International’s unique Industrial Wall many instances this means utilising available
capabilities. Simon Wilkins, a Project Controller (IWC-05) that controls the 23 headroom with the installation of a mezzanine
Manager at Welconstruct, surveyed the site Breezair coolers through its two main floor. As hot air rises, working at the top of a
and calculated that 23 Breezair coolers operating modes, “local” and “external”. warehouse becomes extremely uncomfortable
installed onto the roof of the warehouse Using the remote sensor supplied, the IWC-05 for staff in summer and high temperatures can
complex would provide sufficient cooling to monitors the indoor temperature and also have an adverse affect on some products.
overcome high summer temperatures thereby humidity, automatically increasing or Breezair provides a cost effective solution to
ensuring that the 300 personnel could decreasing the fan speed, and starting and this problem”.
continue working right through summer. stopping the pump to maintain comfort. The The Breezair is suitable for both
“First and foremost we needed to think "external" mode of the controller has been commercial and industrial applications in a
about staff welfare on the top mezzanine fully integrated into the facility’s BMS wide spectrum of industries. Manufactured to
floor, as we did not want to have to shut down Control system. Should any of the Breezair the highest standards, the Breezair is backed
the upper floor when temperatures became coolers develop a fault, it is immediately by Seeley International's 35 years of
intolerably high,” said Jay Wiggins, logistics identified by the IWC-05, which provides experience in climate control and the
director at ChoicesUK. “Breezair evaporative comprehensive fault diagnostics enabling any company's commitment to excellence in
cooling provides cooled fresh air as well as cooler to be quickly repaired. customer service.
natural ventilation and, in addition to being “The system is working very, very
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