Moducel secures Culloden project
Images supplied courtesy of the National Trust for Scotland
Moducel has designed an air handling solution for the new purpose-built Culloden Battlefield visitor centre and exhibition at Culloden Moor near Inverness.
The new £9 million visitor centre at Culloden Battlefield was opened to the public and local community in December 2007 but officially opened in April this year.
The centre includes a series of controlled exhibition spaces, educational space, restaurant, shop and support facilities and a landscaped roof platform offers panoramic views over the battlefield, the final resting place for over 1800 soldiers.
Culloden was the last hand-to-hand fought battle on British soil and part of a wider European religious and political conflict, in which government troops under the Duke of Cumberland fought Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite supporters. Since the mid-nineteenth century the battlefield has been a place of pilgrimage for people not just from Scotland but across the world.
Images supplied courtesy of the National Trust for Scotland
Key highlights include: the battle zone with an impressive battlefield table where, as the clouds part, the events of the battle are played out before visitors’ eyes; a battle theatre enabling visitors to imagine what it was like to be at the centre of the action on 16 April 1746 and an interactive Battlefield guide that automatically triggers information to hand held devices whilst visitors tour the battlefield at their own pace.
A purpose-built Moducel LKS unit has been installed in the restaurant to provide full air conditioning. The unit has an air volume of 2.65m³/s and features dampers, frost coil, panel filters, bag filters and fans. The units provide a mixture of fresh air supply, air conditioning supply and extract units.
Images supplied courtesy of the National Trust for Scotland
A feature of the LKS is its Pentapost construction with special flanged Pentapost sections fitted onto heavy duty cast alloy corners. Panels are of a sandwiched construction and designed to provide excellent thermal and acoustic insulation properties.
The consultant for the project was Max Fordham and contractors were Barnie Building Services.
For more information please visit the National Trust for Scotland's web site for more details www.nts.org.uk.