Carrier Air Conditioning - Carrier air conditioned stadia at Asian Games

Integrated Carrier systems including chillers, air handling units and fan coils were applied on three of the five main stadia constructed or rebuilt and restyled for the recent Asian Games in Doha, the capital of Qatar. At the Games, Carrier also supplied the chillers for the Al-Hodaifi Olympic Committee administration tower.
Five Carrier chillers, twenty-eight Carrier air handling units and four Carrier fan coil units were used to cool the indoor stadium at the Al-Rayyan Sports Club. This main stadium has a capacity of 25,000 making it jointly the second largest used by the Games. It hosted the Hockey and football events.
The same air conditioning combination was also used at the Al-Gharrafa Sports Club which hosted football and handball. Four global chillers, fifteen air handling units and more than a hundred fan coil units were incorporated into the Al-Sadd Sports Club stadium, which also hosted the football tournament and the water-polo event.
The games themselves have been popularly applauded as a great success bringing forty-five teams and three quarters of a million spectators together from all over the Middle and Far East to participate in thirty-nine sports where thirty-three World or Asian records were broken. The next Asian Games will be held at Guangzhou, China in 2010.
This latest experience of applying equipment effectively in large sports arenas has added to the immense bank of expertise that Carrier already holds from its major role in providing large proportions of the air conditioning in nearly all of the Olympic cities in recent decades. It has also proven that it has the sophisticated controls and maintenance expertise that is required at large venues. At the Athens Olympics the air conditioning equipment was remotely monitored by a Carrier system and standby Carrier maintenance teams were on hand, if needed.

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