Danish company Novenco is one of the world’s leading suppliers of ventilation and fire fighting systems to the industrial, offshore and marine sectors. Thanks to its environmentally friendly and energy-saving products the company has experienced significant success. Novenco produces air handling and ventilation systems (for installations on land, at sea as well as offshore) and fire fighting systems as well as offering consulting and general services. One of the company’s most important areas of business is the production of ventilation systems for car parks – a business niche, which, over the past years, has seen significant growth.
The company has extensive experience supplying ventilation systems for road tunnels – with the design and development often taking place in close cooperation with local authorities. This expertise is now being applied to underground and multi-storey car parks. The use of jet fans combined with the use of exhaust fans eliminates the need for expensive ducting and reduces operating costs due to less pressure loss.
The Novenco system was chosen for one of Denmark’s largest building projects – Field’s – a huge shopping centre in Ørestaden just outside Copenhagen. Field’s comprises three floors of shops, restaurants and office facilities as well as a two-tier underground car park. The entire establishment covers an area of 115,000 square metres.
Novenco supplied the ventilation system for the 58,000 square metre underground car park at Field’s – equivalent to eight football pitches! The car park can accommodate 3,000 cars, and there is an hourly air circulation of 300,000m3 on each floor. There are 180 jet fans powered by Leroy-Somer motors, the ventilation shafts are 2.5 by 65m and the exhaust fans take the polluted air out through the roof of the shopping centre.
Novenco chose Leroy-Somer as one of its motor suppliers. Standard and high-temperature motors are used in jet and axial flow fans for the circulation of air in car parks and tunnels. These systems are very environmentally friendly and extremely effective in the event of a fire.
Field’s underground car park is just one of Novenco’s many interesting projects. Others include the Benefica and Porto stadiums in Portugal, a new shopping centre Riem Arcaden in Munich and Hyde Park in London.