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Shell Centre, London SE1
Key design data (original SI)  
Design conditions  
Winter  
External: 280F, 80% rh
Internal: 680F 54% rh
Summer  
External 80F, 54% rh
Internal 75F, 49% rh
 
Heat gains (typical 288 ft2 sunlit bay)  
Glass: (50ft2) 75 Btu/h/ft2
People (4) 250 Btu/h/ft2
Walls (120 ft2) 170 btu/h (total)
Lights and power 9.2 Btu/h/ft2
Design margin: 10%
Total heat gains: 7320 Btu/h
 
Air conditioning  
Frenger panels  
Outer grid: 20 Btu/h/ft2
Inner grid: 10.4 Btu/h/ft2
Total per bay: 3560 Btu/h
(Note: inner Frenger panels do no heating)  
Ventilation  
Air (total) 3760 Btu/h
Total cooling: 7320 Btu/h
 
Heat losses  
Glass: (U-value: 0.6) 30 Btu/h
Walls: (U-value: 0.35) 42 Btu/h
Air change rate: 0.25 (690 ft3) 14 Btu/h
Total heat loss: 86 Btu/h
 
Key original suppliers  
Boilers: Babcock & Wilcox
Calorifiers: Hartley & Sugden
Convector heaters: Copperad
Dampers: Thermocontrol
Diffusers: Aspiration
Ductwork: Gardner, Henry Hargreaves
Electric water heaters: Santon
Fans: Woods of Colchester
Fan drives: Wigglesworth
Filters: Matthews & Yates
Heat exchangers: APV
Heating & cooling batteries: F H Biddle
Hose reels: Pillinger
Local plant controls: Electroflo
Pneumatic controls: Drayton
Pumps: Worthington Simpson
Radiant ceiling panels: Frenger
Radiant heating panels: Comyn Ching
Valves: Hattersley
Ventilation grilles: Richard Crittall