Projects

Refurbishing Menara Standard Chartered

The transformation of Menara Standard Chartered has charter a few superlatives. It is the tallest building in Kuala Lumpur that has undergone major revamp. This by itself presented technical and installation challenges rarely experienced in the industry. It is also worthy to note that it is probably amongst the first few major make over of second generation skyscrappers in Kuala Lumpur; contributing significantly to the evolving face of the city.
 
Menara Standard Chartered, a 42 storey tower, was occupied mainly with offices with the lower four to five levels occupied by showrooms, F&B outlets and the like. This building feature is a particularly sucessful marriage of architecture, interior design and landscape design as a cohesive whole. It is programmed and designed to provide a prime corporate environment in the heart of the city.
 

 
Being a site in the heart of the city, design solutions to the existing physical conditions offered challenges and potentials that sometimes appeared obvious and hidden. The refubishment of the Air-Conditioning and Mechanical Ventilation (ACMV) has added another physical challenge when design ideas were put to test during site installation. The replacements of the 6 numbers of the 15 year old round cooling towers (Total 2340 tons) was an engineering challenge.
 
With the location of the existing towers at the carpark, middle and high zone at the vertically stacked building, Transwater Cooling Towers has undertaken the supply, delivery and installation of cooling towers to suit the space and operational needs. Being located at the enclosed levels, each cell was designed to be capable of separate operation and adequately designed to withstand minimum air intake by wind forces normally encountered in the locality of the project at the elevation indicated. Our low kW and space saving design has contributed to the design intervention to achieve a level of efficiency that is economical.