NEWS AND ARTICLES 2006
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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 WRFTM 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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