Excellence in Innovation

Allianz Stadium – A.G. Coombs

The new state-of-the-art Allianz Stadium is located in Sydney's Moore Park and hosted its first event on September 2, 2022. The 42,500-capacity world class stadium builds on the legacy of the Sydney Sports Ground (1899) and the original Sydney Football Stadium, opened as a Bicentennial Project in 1988. The highly collaborative A.G. Coombs and LCI team delivered an innovative high-performance mechanical and HVAC system to meet rigorous functionality requirements while targeting ambitious sustainability targets.

Chilled Water Plant Optimisation – Exergenics

Exergenics’ Chilled Water Plant Optimisation Tool is a patented machine learning software platform that simulates plant performance under every possible condition, to produce optimised controls recommendations that can be easily programmed into the existing BMS to achieve peak plant efficiency.

Leveraging operational data, the software models the actual efficiency profiles of chillers, pumps and cooling towers. This approach delivers significant benefits over using OEM performance data, which becomes less reliable as equipment performance degrades over time.

Through a cloud-based approach, building owners can realise significant energy savings within industry-leading payback periods, without any new hardware, technicians, or workflow disruptions.

Woolworths CO2 HVAC Systems

There is a belief that the use of R744 (CO2) is limited to refrigeration and not suited for HVAC applications. However, Glaciem’s patent design delivered a system capable of direct expansion (DX) cooling, direct heating and combined cooling/heating (dehumidification) by incorporating a series of three-way modulating valves controlled with proprietary software and the integration of ambient cooling coils as part of the CO2 gas cooler. This new design is patented in Australia and is about to enter the international phase under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

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