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The Scottish Association of Marine Science - SAMS (www.sams.ac.uk) - has selected an innovative new indoor climate solution for small and medium-sized buildings from WindowMaster (www.windowmaster.co.uk), Europe's largest provider of natural comfort and smoke ventilation solutions. Its NV Comfort™ control system was installed at the newly opened SAMS teaching facility at Oban.
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The Scottish Association of Marine Science - SAMS- has selected an innovative new indoor climate solution for small and medium-sized buildings from WindowMaster (www.windowmaster.co.uk), Europe's largest provider of natural comfort and smoke ventilation solutions. Its NV Comfort™ control system was installed at the newly opened SAMS teaching facility at Oban.
The £6 million development is designed to provide facilities for an additional 150 students of marine science at the Scottish Marine Institute, whose purpose-built research building was opened in 2004. NV Comfort enables an optimal indoor climate through consistent pure natural ventilation. At the same time it can save enough energy to significantly reduce CO2 emissions.
The education facility was constructed by Barr Construction (www.barr-construction.co.uk) and includes teaching rooms, labs, office space and a visitor centre. Brise soleil was installed on the south facing façade to control solar heat gains. The building is located on a beautiful but very exposed site on the coast at Dunstaffnage, north of Oban.
The institute was keen to ensure that the building was designed and delivered with as low an environmental impact as possible. SAMS therefore chose the Building Research Establishment's environmental assessment methodology (BREEAM) for the project.
NV Comfort™ is well suited for new medium sized buildings such as the SAMS teaching facility where there is focus on reducing CO2 emissions.
The programmable and intelligent system automatically ensures that a window is in the position that will create and maintain the desired internal air temperature and closes the window automatically if it starts to rain or the wind blows too heavily. This was a significant challenge overcome by WindowMaster as the SAMS block is on a particularly exposed part of the coastline.
Richard Arnott, UK and Ireland market manager for WindowMaster, said: "It is always pleasant to have fresh air coming in through the window. But it can be inconvenient having to adjust the window constantly to maintain the desired temperature or to keep out wind and rain, particularly as in such an exposed position as the SAMS education facility.
"WindowMaster's compact and intelligent new system automatically ensures that windows are in the required position to provide the optimal internal air temperature and air quality and it always remembers to close the window if it starts to rain or the wind blows too heavily."
NV Comfort™ is based on WindowMaster's established NV Advance™ system for management of natural ventilation in larger projects but is designed with smaller schools and offices in mind. Like the NV Advance™ control system NV Comfort™ regulates and adjusts internal air quality using an intelligent, computer-controlled system that harnesses the natural forces created by temperature differences outside and inside the building and by the effect of wind around the building. It has fewer features than NV Advance™ and is therefore ideal for smaller projects with a limited number of zones.
NV Comfort™ controls façade and roof windows so that they automatically open and close by incremental amounts on the basis of individual fixed values for the desired room temperature and CO2 levels, as well as measurements of external temperature, rain and wind speed. Setting the desired room temperature and CO2 levels can be done individually for each room from one central location in the building via the NV Comfort™ touch screen.
The system can be retrofitted on many existing windows as well as being installed on new buildings. It can operate on a broad range of window types, including top and bottom opening, sliding and parallel opening. The system can also be used on windows for heat and smoke ventilation.
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