Cegelec won a contract to provide all of the HVAC and plumbing infrastructure for a 43,000-square-meter office tower being built at La Défense, just outside Paris. The building will house French bank Société Générale's new trading floors as of 2012. This contract with Nexity Entreprises demands compliance with particularly high standards of environmental performance and system availability.
In line with France's high environmental quality (HQE) approach, the building will be equipped with a system that detects the amount of carbon dioxide exhaled by occupants and regulates the intake of outside air accordingly, thereby reducing the energy used for heating and air conditioning.
As the building will house trading floor workstations with up to six computers and monitors each, Cegelec has been asked to provide an air conditioning system that will regulate and control the temperature inside the desks where the equipment will be incorporated. Redundant cooling equipment will be installed, with the back-up system automatically taking over as necessary.
