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Over recent years more buildings have looked to incorporate additional services within the ‘free hanging’ Radiant Panel System to reduce site installation time and provide a modular approach to the building design.

Multi-Service Radiant Panels (MSRP’s) provide a solution to this, combining Radiant Panels (Electric or LTHW) with integrated LED lighting, acoustic sound absorption and other building services in individual 100% prefabricated, ‘plug n play’ units.

Learn more about how Frenger's Multi-Service Radiant Panels support the modern building design by clicking the link below.

Reported in 2019 by the World Green Building Council, the building and construction industry is responsible for 39% of all carbon emissions in the world.

With the UK now halfway towards net zero, (emissions cut by 53% between 1990 and 2023), it is crucial that designs keep looking towards using renewable and more energy-efficient systems.

Learn more about how FTF group's Chilled Beam technology can provide a net zero work environment by clicking the link below.

Healthcare buildings have a diverse range of requirements when it comes to their thermal environment, even more so post-pandemic, because of this it is important that the right HVAC solution is selected to provide the best environment for all building occupants.

The correct HVAC solution can play an important part in the recovery process helping to stabilize the emotional well-being of patients and contribute to the healing process by providing high levels of Thermal Comfort.

Learn more about how FTF Group's Chilled Beam technology can transform healthcare environments by clicking the link below.

We spend the majority of our time indoors, especially when it concerns students and teachers who spend long days at school or within educational buildings. Therefore, it is important that these buildings provide the best indoor environment for learning.

Chilled beam technology allows for complete thermal comfort within these environments, leading to increased productivity and improved well-being of building occupants.

Learn more about how FTF Group's Chilled Beam technology can influence thermal comfort in learning environments by clicking the link below.

The extensive refurbishment of the Harlequin Building, 65 Southwark Street, back in 2012, was supplied by FTF Group Climate^® with their ‘Slim Line’ Active Multi-Service Chilled Beams (MSCBs) with seamless T5 lamps integrated within the extruded polycarbonate side pods.

Undergoing a full internal and external redevelopment of the post-war 1960s office commercial building, the interior was stripped back to its original frames and transformed into a modern mixed-use development, with the addition of two new floors and bringing a Grade A office interior to fit with modern office requirements.

Learn more about how FTF Group's LED integration, transformed the building by clicking the link below.

FTF Group Climate^® was selected to supply the multi-million pound academic hub development at the prestigious Haberdashers School for Boys with their Multi-Service Radiant Panels (MSRPs) chosen to provide heating, acoustic sound absorption and LED lighting.

Originally dating back to 1690, the Haberdashers School for Boys is one of the top independent boys' schools in the United Kingdom with approximately 20% of its students going on to study at the UK's most prestigious universities, Oxford and Cambridge.

The schools aim for the development of the facilities were to "inspire dynamic teaching and learning" allowing for a more "flexible and adaptable, future-driven approach to teaching".

Learn more about how FTP Group Climate's MSRP units benefitted the school by clicking the link below.

FTF Group Climate^® are proud to have recently supplied the new $254 Million dollar Aston Martin Formula One (AMF1) Factory with their Compact^® Multi-Service Chilled Beams (MSCB) with Integrated LED lighting.

Designed to fuel Aston Martin's charge towards the front of the grid, the purpose-built facilities deliver exactly what the team needs allowing for better communication and collaboration, accelerated car development and space for a growing workforce.

FTF's Active MSCBs were installed in the bespoke open plan technical and design offices located on the second floor of the main building, helping to provide high levels of Thermal Comfort in a space designed with optimum productivity and occupancy Wellbeing in mind.

Learn more about the project below.

FTF Group Climate^® supplied the new $564 Million (AUD) Victorian Heart Hospital with their Eco Healthcare Active Chilled Beams.

Providing lifesaving diagnosis and treatment for thousands of patients each year the hospital has a strong focus on prevention, recovery, and rehabilitation, delivering up to 2,150 cardiac surgeries, 13,500 cardiac laboratory procedures and 60,000 consulting room consultations.

Learn more about the project below.

FTF Group Climate^® supplied the Tavistock Place building at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with their Eco Active Chilled Beams and Halo Active Chilled Beams.

The new six-storey building will aid in the learning and development of staff and students, providing new research and office facilities, with purpose built dry laboratories and accommodation helping to expand the limits of research in epidemiology.

Learn more about the project below.

FTF Group Climate^® supplied the Hub on Causeway 31-storey office tower in Boston, Massachusetts, with their Eco Ceiling Integrated Chilled Beams (CICBs).

The LEED Gold certified office tower is the tallest tower to have been constructed in Boston for nearly 20 years and is home to leaders in the creative, technology, and sports industries.

Learn more about the project below.

Pioneering ahead of other competing Chilled Beam manufacturers, all of FTF Group's Active Chilled Beams feature a "Turn Down Facility" as standard. This unique functionality allows FTF Group's Active Chilled Beams to operate at significantly reduced air volumes whilst still creating a full Coanda Effect and good waterside cooling effect even at Air Pressures as low as 0.06"H2O (inch of water).

Learn more about the benefits of this Turn Down Functionality by clicking the button below.

FTF Group^® supplied the Dogger Bank Wind Farm Operations and Maintenance (O&M) base with their Active Multi-Service Chilled Beams and their X-Wing^® Radiant Passive Chilled Beams.

The construction of the O&M building utilized low carbon materials such as a Glue Laminated Timber (Glulam) frame and Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) roof and floor slabs.

The base is due to be operated in line with UK Green Building Councils (UKGBC) Net Zero Carbon framework. Click the link below learn more.

FTF Group Climate^® have recently supplied the 20 Finsbury Circus Multi Million Pound refurbishment in London with their Compact Active Multi-Service Chilled Beam (MSCB) units complete with continuous LED lighting to all six floor levels and also Chilled Ceilings and chilled access bulkheads throughout all floor levels.

The 20 Finsbury Circus CAT A refurbishment breathes new life into the landmark building keeping the original 1900 Edwardian façade coupled with a contemporary interior.

Click the link below to find out more about how FTF Group's Active MSCB units and Chilled Ceilings have benefitted the project.

FTF Group Climate's Modula Ceiling Recessed PC-SP (Standard Performance) Radiant Heating Panels were the selected solution to be installed inside the recently renovated West Wing of the Toms River Ocean County Courthouse in the state of New Jersey, through our local representative BJ Terroni.

Click the link below to find out more about the New Jersey Courthouse project.

FTF Group Climate^® mass produce the X-Wing^® 'Radiant' Passive Chilled Beams in both Black (RAL 9005 equivalent) and White (RAL 9016 equivalent) as standard, but they can also powder coat to any other RAL color as an optional extra.

Click the link below to find out more about FTF Group's Powder Coating capabilities.

FTF Group Climate^® are pleased to hear Wales Darby's recent product roadshow showcase was successfully carried out with the roadshow being the first one being held by Wales Darby, FTF Group's New Jersey / New York distributor, since the COVID-19 pandemic first started.

FTF Group's highly efficient HVAC product solutions were showcased during the roadshow presented to business representatives in New York and the wider tri-state area.

This was the first of two roadshows, with Wales Darby holding their next commercial HVAC & Plumbing Products Roadshow in NY on June 16th 2022. Read the full article to find out more.

The Siebel Design Center was awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification for several sustainable features and initiatives such as community connectivity, access to public transportation, reduction in water consumption, optimized energy performance including the use of X-Wing 'Radiant' Passive Chilled Beams.

The new state-of-the-art Chemotherapy ward has recently opened inside Ulster Hospital in Belfast, Ireland. FTF Group^® was selected to design, manufacture, and supply the new unit with their Eco Healthcare Active Chilled Beams as well as their Modula Radiant Heating Panels.

The already Multi-Award winning Zayed Centre has recently added another accolade to its collection with the 2021 RIBA London Award at the RIBA regional awards. The award-winning project was supplied with FTF Group's X-Wing^® Radiant Passive Chilled Beams.

FTF Group® have supplied 183-185 Clarence Street, Sydney ( SubStation No. 164) where heritage meets innovation to provide one of the most distinctive commercial office spaces in Sydney CBD which utilises both our Compact™ Active chilled beams and X-Wing® Radiant passive chilled beams.

FTF Group® are proud to have previously supplied Kamirice flagship commercial building at 500 Collins Street, Melbourne which has an amazing twenty-year story of investing in sustainable technologies for the benefit of their tenants and building occupants. Built in 1973, the 26-storey tower features approximately 26,000 square metres of net lettable area and comprises an office tower with a retail plaza at ground level.

The new $564 million Victorian Heart Hospital in Melbourne will be completed in 2022, and the hospital will be able to perform 2,150 cardiac surgeries and 13,000 cardiac laboratory procedures each year, as well as catering for 28,300 cardiac emergency presentations and 108,000 consultations.

FTF Group are proud to have supplied our 'Exposed' X-Wing® Radiant Passive Chilled Beams to the recently completed new 60,000 square foot UIUC Siebel Center in Champaign, Illinois.

FTF Group are proud to have recently supplied English Premier League Champions Liverpool's brand-new AXA Training Facility with their range of energy efficient Modula Radiant Heating Panels.

FTF Group is incredibly proud to reveal that on September 18th 2020, the European Healthcare Design Awards 2020 (EHD 2020) announced that the Zayed Centre, located in London, UK, was the biggest winner of the evening, having won both the Health and Life Sciences Research Award and the Interior Design and Arts Award.

FTF Group are proud to have supplied both our 'Exposed' X-Wing® Radiant Passive Chilled Beams and wall-mounted Radiant Cooling Panels to the Central Analytical Research Facility (CARF) Instrument Lab located at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Gardens Point Campus in Queensland, Australia.

FTF Group have successfully designed, tested, manufactured and supplied their bespoke energy-efficient cooling solutions to various state-of-the-art Scientific Testing and Electron Microscope Laboratories across the globe.

Daramu House is a brand new six-storey building located in the heart of Sydney, Australia. The property is constructed from cross-laminated timber (CLT) as part of a new wave of pre-build construction technologies produced from timber and glulam (glue-laminated timber).

FTF Group has a wealth of experience in the design, development and manufacture of heating and cooling systems dating back some 80 years. We also have a proven track record of delivering some of the world's largest and most complex Chilled Beam projects.

FTF Group's Cornice Active Chilled Beams are designed to discreetly nestle directly above beds in hotel rooms and provide high levels of cooling/heating whilst maintaining the highest Thermal Comfort and lowest Noise Rating.

To welcome their new 2019/20 academic year students, Nottingham Trent University (NTU) are opening in September 2019 a $28m state-of-the-art engineering building to create 'the engineers of the future'.

The Broomlands Primary School Building, located in Kelso, Scotland, has recently won two separate awards and is favourite for another 2019 award.

The University of Washington Life Sciences Building, which has FTF Group's X-Wing® Radiant Passive Chilled Beams installed behind the timber slatted ceilings, has been awarded the '2018 DJC Building of the Year award'.

You can now learn more about Chilled Beam and Radiant Heating Technology with FTF Group's new Frequently Asked Questions section...

Once again FTF Group works closely with design teams to produce engineering solutions that meet the various demands of the HVAC system while also satisfying architectural inspirations...

FTF Group are proud to have supplied the international house in Australia which has recently been awarded the Development Excellence Award for Sustainable Development from Urban Taskforce Australia...

FTF Group were selected to supply in excess of 350 number of their X-Wing® MSCB units for 5 of the 10-floor levels of the building...

FTF Group has supplied several hundred Multi-Service Induction Beams (MSIB's) to the newly refurbished NFU Mutual Headquarters in Stratford-upon-Avon...

FTF Group produces parametric BIM models by use of REVIT for its wide range of chilled beams...

Recent independent testing performed by HLK (Heizung Lüftung Klimatechnik) Stuttgart, has shown that the heating performance of FTF Group's Modula SP Radiant Heating Panels has increased by more than 10%.

FTF Group supplied & installed the world's largest Chilled Ceiling (175,000m²) at the Shell Building in 1962.

FTF Group has supplied their latest generation (X-Wing®) of 'Radiant' Passive Multiservice Chilled Beams (MSCB's) to this four-story 6,000m² building which is designed to accommodate their Computer Science facilities.

FTF Group unveils its latest hard copy and electronic download literature "Chilled Beam Architecture & Design", showcasing how FTF Group's varied chilled beam solutions can be used in different building environments.

FTF Group exports their fully in house manufactured energy-efficient Chilled Beam Technology cooling units for use in high profile building projects worldwide...

Great news for HVAC Designers, there's now an addendum to table 35 of Part L (Non-Domestic Building Services Compliance Guide 2013) which now affords an additional 0.3 SFP to the AHU (Air Handling Unit) to enable greater flexibility in the choice of energy-efficient space conditioning solutions...

Due to good planning and precise packaging, FTF Group can maximize the number of chilled beams into shipping containers more efficiently than ever before.

You can see for yourself how the new system is put into practice.

The government wanted 20% improvement in energy efficiencies, settled for 9%, could have 22% today for commercial buildings air conditioning...