When approached by Smithfield Alliance asking if it was possible to provide heating and cooling in the slaughter room factory, Regan, who loves a challenge, took this mammoth task on.

The slaughter board creates a lot of issues when trying to design a solution to cool this space as there are a lot of people working alongside a lot of animals that are releasing excessive heat during the breakdown process of the animal. There is also a very high humidity in the room as sterilisers and steamers are constantly running. It is not achievable to look at this job as to the amounts of Kw required for the entire area but is the amount of capacity we require as there are limits and restraints to the weight the roof would hold, the power supply available and budgets to take into account.

My solution was to install 2 x 100Kw high airflow units – one to the north and one to the south of the slaughter board utilizing some of the existing fresh air ductwork and directing the air to each of the staff working on the chain supplying them with dry cool air as we were not attempting to cool the entire chain, just to cool the staff at each station.

On the recirculated side of the air, we installed a PHI.PKG commercial air purification system. This system kills 99.6% of COVID-19 and airborne pathogens. We have added this system in as studies have shown that these Halo purification systems reduce the number of sick days from employees and reduce transmission of all mould, dust and airborne pathogens.

These systems also have data monitoring built into the system to monitor the temperature of the room 24 hours a day for MPI.