Case Study 6: Umeda Center Building
Umeda Center Building in Osaka, Japan was awarded the very first “SHASE Special Award - Renewal Award” in 2013, an award to help promote the development of renovation technology, that is to keep building equipment sustainable in a long term. Thanks to the improvement of office environment, occupation ratio has been kept at a high level through the years.
*SHASE:
The society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan
Enables smooth replacement of air conditioning with less effect on operations and users in the building with the simple use of existing refrigerant piping. In the past, special equipment and work was needed to clean pipes when using existing piping, but this is no longer required. A new function automatically deals with contamination inside piping during refrigerant charging, eliminating the work involved in cleaning. Even applicable for non-DAIKIN systems!
*For reuse of existing refrigerant piping, it is possible to use piping or branched piping capable of handling 3.3 MPa or more.
Heat insulation is necessary for liquid piping and gas piping.
Work costs for pipe removal, installation and insulation account for almost 80% of the total cost. By the reuse of existing piping, 45% of cost down can be realized compared to installing new pipes.
On top of the benefits from reusing pipes, costs of charging refrigerant to clean the pipes are also saved.
Smaller footprint, less installation space
Refrigerant charging, cleaning and test operation done with just a single switch.
The unique automatic refrigerant charge eliminates the need to calculate refrigerant volume and ensures that the system will operate perfectly. Not knowing the exact piping lengths because of changes or mistakes in case you didn't do the original installation or replacing a competitor installation no longer poses a problem. Furthermore, there is no need to clean inside piping as this is handled automatically by the VRV Q unit.
Application | Office |
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Location | Osaka, Japan |
Year of Completion | 1987 |
Year of Renovation | 2007-2009 |