Key features of the Cuisine de France facility
- Cold Store, Spiral Freezers, Loading Bay, Chill Rooms, Production Hall
- Unique cold store penthouse design
- Multi-stage industrial refrigeration plant maintaining four evaporating temperature levels simultaneously
- Environmentally-friendly ammonia refrigerant
- Chemical-free condenser water treatment system
- Industrial plant with 25 year design life
- All electrical motors high efficiency
- Condensing Pressure Optimiser
- Heat recovery for underfloor heating
- Heat pump using waste heat recovery to provide hot water to the factory
- Remote-access SCADA system for data monitoring and reporting
- Air tightness testing of Cold Store envelope delivered Best Practice rating
FTG provided the following services for this project:
- Refrigeration Specialist Consultancy – drafting of Specification, and issuing to shortlisted tenderers
- Insulated Envelope Specialist Consultancy – drafting of Specification and issuing to shortlisted tenderers
- Pre-Qualification process to shortlist suitable contractors
- Tender Process Management – co-ordinating with the QS to assess the tender submissions
- Auditing of the completed installations against Specification
- Contract values of over €5M for refrigeration and €5M for the insulated envelope
