FINAS Hulu Kelang — Air-Conditioning Upgrade

Scope of works

Upgrading of the air-conditioning system and related works for the national film development corporation.

Upgrading an air-conditioning system inside a working broadcast and film facility puts two requirements against each other: the cooling has to improve, and the acoustic environment must not get worse. Studio and post-production spaces are unforgiving about airborne and structure-borne noise in a way that ordinary offices are not.

The engineering answer is rarely just a bigger machine. It is duct velocities kept low, plant isolated from structure, and a control strategy that holds conditions without cycling equipment audibly — decided alongside the equipment selection rather than after it.

What this kind of commission involves

Campus and government work is defined by scale, by long design lives and by procurement rules that shape the engineering. Buildings are grouped into packages, services are shared across a site rather than duplicated per block, and the client will still own and operate the result in thirty years — so maintainability outranks first cost more often than it does elsewhere.

Disciplines engaged

• Campus-wide services masterplanning and utility corridor design
• Centralised cooling distribution and building-level energy transfer
• HV campus reticulation, consumer substations and standby supply
• Laboratory services — fume extraction, specialist gases, pressure regimes
• Auditoria and large-volume ACMV with acoustic and comfort constraints
• Commercial kitchen mechanical services and fire suppression
• Data centre precision cooling, redundant power and suppression
• Residential and hostel services at scale, including hot and cold water
• Fire protection strategy across a multi-building site
• Authority submissions, JKR standards compliance and staged handover

What we watch for

The failures that recur on this building type, and where we look for them.

• Package boundaries that leave services orphaned between two contracts
• Utility corridors sized for today with no allowance for future phases
• Maintenance access designed out to gain floor area
• Operator training and as-built documentation treated as a closing formality

The following describes the standard engineering scope for this sector. The specific scope of any individual commission is set by its brief and contract.

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