Major order for ventilation equipment for a prestigious building project in London. The building contractor for the fashionable address 30 St. Mary Axe has placed an order for 80 GOLD ventilation units. The order is worth seven million Swedish Crowns with potential for an additional order worth roughly nine million Swedish Crowns. The owner of the building anticipates an almost seven million Swedish Crown annual increase in income from rents thanks to the Swegon solution.

Swegon in Kvänum, Sweden and the company's English marketing company has obtained a prestigious order worth seven million Swedish Crowns. The order concerns 80 type GOLD ventilation units. The units will be delivered from the beginning of March and through July.

Prospects are good that the company will land a follow-up order worth roughly nine million Swedish Crowns later this spring. The ventilation units will be installed in an imposing office building in the centre of London with the fashionable address 30 St. Mary Axe. The follow-up order is for 100 ventilation units of the same type scheduled to be delivered during the coming autumn and winter.

"At a time when the building market in Sweden is somewhat in decline, it feels especially gratifying to have obtained such a major order for a single project," says Swegon's Managing Director Mats Holmquist. "We won this important business deal in tough competition. Our new power-efficient Wing fan and our advanced intelligent control and regulation system, which also contributes to lower energy consumption, were, among other features, were decisive in landing the deal."

The building is a spectacular billion-crown, steel and glass edifice that resembles a fat, upright cigar. The building is 180 metres tall and has 40 storeys. The architect of the project is Lord Norman Foster, who, among other things, also has designed the bridge across Sound between Denmark and Sweden.

In addition to its substantial scope, this single order is also an important breakthrough for Swegon who has devoted considerable effort towards marketing decentralized ventilation, which involves the selection of several smaller ventilation units instead of a single large unit for ventilating a building.

The smaller units can be installed in spaces that otherwise would not be put to use, thus sparing the owner the costs for special fan rooms. Small ventilation units are also more power-efficient. They make it much easier to adapt temperatures, airflows and in-operation times to suit the expectations of the occupants. Fire safety will also be simpler and less expensive to maintain. Service technicians can communicate with the building's computerized monitoring system via the GOLDen Gate Communication Unit, newly developed by Swegon.

A ventilation system consisting of one large ventilation unit per storey was originally contemplated for this building project in London. Ultimately six small GOLD ventilation units per storey were selected for installation concealed above the suspended ceilings of the building. This was possible thanks to the extremely low level of sound emitted from the unit to the surroundings.

The owner of the building anticipates being able to earn up to seven million Swedish Crowns extra annually in incomes from rents, in that the fan rooms could be ruled out and instead office space can be built on these spaces. Besides improved rent revenues savings can also be anticipated through a lower operating and energy costs in comparison with other solutions.

The Swegon GOLD is a series of air handling units with supply air and extract air fans, outdoor air and extract air filters and a rotary heat exchanger.