Overview

1 Finsbury Avenue is a Grade II listed building located within the Broadgate Estate, a campus situated at the centre of London’s financial, cultural and creative areas, comprising of 281,000ft² of office space across six storeys.

For the refurbishment and fit-out of Level 05, ARUP were employed as the MEP consultant and Advanced Air UK worked extremely closely with the ARUP and Dornan Engineering Services teams to deliver the required solution taking into account the required NR levels. The inclusion of grilles and acoustic plenums illustrated Advanced Air UK’s ability as an Air Distribution Expert.

This was embellished by Advanced Air UK being proactive by ensuring that the solution of products was tested in a sound laboratory in two configurations to achieve the required noise specification. The success of this scheme led to further orders as and when CAT B fit-out works commenced on Levels 1 & 2 and also on Level 5.

Solutions

The project was subject to achieving criteria to ensure the award of Acoustic BREEAM credits. Advanced Air UK carried out extensive testing of FCU complete with diffusers to optimise their combined performance. This resulted in the diffuser plenums being supplied with different levels of acoustic treatment.

The approach to test two configurations was praised by ARUP and allowed confidence that the proposed solution was the correct one.

Statistics

Fan coil units (FCUs)

524 no. EPIC 280 EXP units^*

239 no. EPIC280EXP-900mm
– 231 no. cooling only & 8 no. cooling & heating

122 no. EPIC280EXP-1200mm
– 120 no. cooling only & 2 no. cooling & heating

163 no EPIC280EXP-1500mm
– 159 no. cooling only & 4 no. cooling & heating

*Noise Rating to be achieved: NR38 to NR40

Diffusers

2,339 no. 315mm dia. fixed blade swirl diffusers^*

– 2,240 no. FBS-R-315-C-AW-PL-TE-250-TAL
– 99 no. FBS-R-315-C-BLK-PL-TE-250-TAL