Case Study - Supermarket Hire Chiller and Internal Air Handlers.

When a leading supermarket chain wanted help to maintain their cooling during the last summers heatwave, as there existing AHU heating system was unable to keep up with the cooling demand at one of its stores. They contacted Watkins Hire for an emergency hire solution that included a KwikCHILL 80kW Trane Aquastream Chiller with internal warm air-handling units.

Watkins Hire received a call from the facility management company who maintain the store, for an emergency cooling solution to supplement the stores cooling system as the existing Air Handling system was unable to meet the increased demands due to the ambient temperatures of 28-deg C inside the store.

Watkins Hire interpreted the site requirements, equipment required for the project included a 80kw mobile packaged chiller, two 50kw Air Handling Units. The KwikCOOL chiller was selected from one of Watkins Hire extensive fleet of 1000 mobile temperature control plants.

The hire plant was delivered within hours of the initial call, with Watkins Hire own transport and lifted onto site with Watkins Hire 12 tonne HIAB crane.

From the time of delivery to site and Watkins Hire Engineers commissioning and handing over the plant to the store was completed within 14 hours.

A spokesperson for the store said "We are extremely pleased with Watkins Hire and their professional approach, and the efficiency in the way the whole contract was handled, without hesitation we will be contacting Watkins Hire again should we have the misfortune of a cooling plant failure, The standard of equipment and service was second to none, we now know what they can deliver"

Shoppers were unaffected, as a result of this project we have successfully completed several others since. Problem solved