NEWS AND ARTICLES

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April 2008
News - Launch of Top To Toe website

Please visit Colt's new Top To Toe website in order to obtain an overview of Colt's integrated climate control solutions and systems. Read more...

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March 2008
News - One Way Option for Highcross Leicester

The first smoke control system of its kind is being installed at Highcross / The Shires in Leicester. A variety of smoke control technologies are being employed, including car park and road tunnel ventilation, fire fighting shafts, and mechanical and natural smoke extraction. Colt provided an innovative smoke control system for the car park exit tunnel, with its design proven by CFD analysis. Read more...

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February 2008
News - Smoke Control Seminars

Colt is hosting a series of technical seminars examining current and future trends in smoke control, at three locations across the UK, in April. Read more...

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January 2008
Article - Smoke Solutions (233 KB)

Colt's Paul Compton explores some of the current and future developments in the field of smoke control. Reproduced with permission from Fire Risk Management magazine. Read more...

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November 2007
News - Greater coverage in Smoke Control CPD Seminars

Colt has expanded the depth of content offered in its smoke control CPD seminars.
For more details, click here.

October 2007
News - Energy Solutions Expo

Colt exhibited at this year's Energy Solutions Expo at Olympia on 10 & 11 October 2007. There is a link to slides from a presentation on ground source heat pumps. Read more...

September 2007
News - Launch of Architect's Alchemist site

Please visit Colt's new Architect's Alchemist website to see examples of how Colt has worked with Architects to transform raw materials into things of precious beauty using good-looking, energy-efficient products and systems, and to enter a competition.

September 2007
News - New Irish acquisition returns Colt to its roots

Colt is re-launching its activities in Ireland. With offices in more than 50 countries across the globe, Colt, founded by the O'Hea family, is returning to its roots. Read more...

June 2007
News - Colt has won the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Health and Safety for the third year running. Read more...

June 2007
News - Luxury Hotel Chooses Colt Caloris

Colt's WRF (water refrigerant flow) air conditioning system, Colt Caloris, has been installed in the impressive five-star hotel development, Luton Hoo. Read more...

May 2007
News - The Sky's The Limit For Colt

Colt has been appointed to provide smoke extraction technologies for the tallest residential project in Europe, Pan Peninsula, next to London's Canary Wharf. Colt will supply ventilation and smoke extraction for the basement car park and a smoke shaft system for the main body of the building. Read more...

April 2007
News - New smoke ventilation requirements: An opportunity to gain building space

It's not often that new regulations give building engineers, architects, and developers a valuable opportunity to be more creative or make more money, but the latest version of the Approved Document to the Building Regulations Part B - Fire Safety is a welcome exception. Read more...

March 2007
News - Ensuring that louvred shading systems always follow the sun - reproduced with permission from "Architektur und Sonnenschutz" Magazine

Continuously increasing standards of comfort and more energy-conscious attitudes towards the use of buildings requires new and more intelligent solutions for architectural products. Read more... (1.0 MB)

February 2007
News - Seminars to evaluate "WRF" (Water and Refrigerant Flow) Air Conditioning Systems

Colt is holding a series of half-day CPD technical seminars throughout 2007, exploring a variety of themes relating to WRF, such as sustainability, energy efficiency, cost and safety. Read more...

January 2007
News - Colt's new extended corridor solution - saving space, costs and potentially lives

Colt has developed a new Extended Corridor Solution for means-of-escape corridors in residential buildings. Compared with conventional Automated Opening Vent (AOV) corridors, this system offers developers substantial space and cost saving benefits, while providing a safe evacuation route, with increased smoke extraction. Colt's Extended Corridor Solution also aids fire fighters by rapidly clearing smoke during the later stages of a fire. Read more...

December 2006
News - Colt CPD programme reaches a major milestone

More than 2,000 people have taken part in Colt's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme over the past 2 years. Read more...

December 2006
News - Colt halves cost of hotel fire shaft

Colt has cut the cost of smoke extraction in a new London business hotel by installing its Colt Shaft fan-powered system. Read more...

November 2006
News - Colt establishes a joint venture in Portugal

Colt Group has recently joined forces with its long- standing distributor in Portugal, Omnitrade Revestimentos Metalicos SA, to form a new joint venture company, Colt Portugal SA. Read more...

October 2006
News - Colt Caloris breaks new ground

Colt has broken new ground by installing a Colt-Caloris Water and Refrigerant Flow (WRF) system connected to a Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHP). Read more...

September 2006
News - Colt 7kW Caloris now available

Colt's new Size 7 Low Noise Horizontal Concealed Caloris WRF^TM unit is now available. Complementing the existing Caloris range, this unit will efficiently heat and cool much larger spaces, such as open plan offices and shopping malls, with low noise and high efficiency. Read more...

September 2006
News - Colt Expands In China

Celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, the Colt Group has recently opened a new manufacturing facility in China to provide a base for the development of its business in China as well as to meet the growing requirements for Colt equipment in the other countries of the Pacific Rim. Read more...

September 2006
Article - Smoking Ban - reproduced with permission from Fire Prevention & Fire Engineers Journal (September 2006 issue) (0.2 MB PDF)

Jean-Claude De Smedt explains how smoke containment systems inhibit the spread of smoke and fumes in burning buildings. Read more...

August 2006
News - A First for Colt Control System

Colt has won the contract for what is believed to be the UK's first smoke control system for a car park. It has been designed specifically to enable occupants to escape from a car park and to assist fire-fighting crews, rather than simply as a smoke clearance system that is commonly applied to car parks. Read more...

August 2006
News - Colt Team Win At Arsenal

A Colt smoke control impulse ventilation system has been installed at the new Emirates Stadium, constructed by Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd for Arsenal Football Club. Colt also supplied plant room louvres in a contract worth # 1.2 million in total. Read more...

July 2006
Article - VRF versus water and refrigerant flow

VRF (variable refrigerant flow) has dominated the air conditioning market for almost a quarter of a century. But that is set to change with the development by Colt of a water and refrigerant flow system, says Darren Civil, the company's Climate Control General Manager. Read more...

June 2006
News - Colt Shaft

Colt has launched Colt Shaft, an active fan smoke extraction system for residential buildings, hospitals, educational establishments, offices and hotels, that largely frees building designers from the constraints imposed by the need for fire-fighting cores, dramatically increases the lettable or saleable space in commercial buildings and extracts smoke more quickly than passive natural ventilation systems. Read more...

May 2006
Article - The New Gas Law - reproduced with permission from Building Services Journal (May 2006 issue) (1.1 MB PDF)

The proposed F-Gas Regulations are expected to come into force in 2007. Menno van der Hoff explores the impact they are likely to have on building services design and specification. Read more...

May 2006
Article - Acting on impulse - reproduced with permission from Fire Safety Engineering (April 2006 issue) (0.5 MB PDF)

Impulse ventilation systems can be used in car parks not only as an alternative to traditional ducted systems but also - if correctly specified - instead of other fire safety measures. Paul Compton examines the options. Read more...

April 2006
News - Colt develops WRF, a revolutionary air conditioning system

Colt has developed WRF (Water and Refrigerant Flow) - a revolutionary air conditioning system designed to meet the environmental requirements of both current and future building regulations, including F-Gas. Colt is launching WRF as a viable alternative to VRF and VRV air conditioning, combining their advantages with a safe and flexible, water-based system. Read more...

April 2006
News - Full scale "live" hot smoke tests for car parks

Colt and the Building Research Establishment (BRE) have carried out a series of tests in a simulated car park that successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of smoke control using impulse fans. They also found that the conditions during the tests were very similar to those predicted by the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling approach as used by Colt for system design. Read more...

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