WindowMaster, Europe's largest provider of natural ventilation solutions, has opened a new office in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.

The new offices are centrally located near Dublin Airport to the north of the city. Close to the M1 and M50 motorways, WindowMaster's offices offer excellent access the whole of the country.

Peter Connelly, regional sales manager for WindowMaster in Ireland, said: "The new office is the headquarters for WindowMaster operations in Ireland. Because of its location we can coordinate all our sale and project management activities around Ireland from here. We have built the new offices in response to growing levels of business in Ireland and in order to provide improved customer support."

WindowMaster has four teams covering Ireland - one each for Greater Dublin, Munster, Ulster and Connaught. The teams are supported by a dedicated sales and customer support team based at the new Dublin office.

"Having offices with a central location like this and with such excellent transport links means that we are able to develop and manage diverse projects across Ireland," said Peter Connelly.

"These wide ranging projects have included supplying natural ventilation systems for the Irish government's new Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources building in Dublin, the new Enterprise Ireland webworks and coach station building in Galway and the Environmental Protection Agency's headquarters in County Wexford."

WindowMaster is Europe's largest provider of natural ventilation systems. Its intelligent NV AdvanceT window automation platform with automatically controlled natural ventilation is particularly suited to modern office building developments.

A typical office building has up to 50 or more internal zones, or areas, where climate needs to be monitored and controlled.

A weather station mounted outside the building monitors external conditions, including wind direction and speed, temperature and rain fall. Changes in wind pressure on the facades are also modelled. These parameters are programmed into the computer control system where they are analysed along with readings taken from the weather station and sensors fitted internally. Windows around the building are then precisely controlled and positioned by the WindowMaster system to keep air quality within rooms fresh and the temperature constant.

WindowMaster's NV AdvanceT window automation platform is the only system in Europe that intelligently monitors windows to prevent entrapment as an integrated function of the motor and control system. It can provide almost failsafe security against the possibility of injury while windows are closing.

If an object, or hands or fingers, becomes trapped in a window and prevents it from closing, the amount of current drawn by the motor instantly increases. This is detected by the microprocessor which immediately reverses the motor to release the window, therefore preventing the possibility of serious injury.

The system can be retrofitted on many existing windows as well as being installed on new buildings. It can operate on a broad range of window types, including top and bottom opening, sliding and parallel opening. The system can also be used on windows for heat and smoke ventilation.

WindowMaster's ventilation system interfaces with Windcatcher systems supplied by Monodraught - a sister company of WindowMaster. The Windcatchers are mounted on the roof of the building and capture prevailing wind travelling from any direction and then direct it through a controlled damper arrangement into rooms below.

All the windows and Windcatchers can be controlled centrally from the building's control room.

Email: mikeh@smye-holland.com