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Groundwater cooling at the Royal Festival Hall, London

This paper documents novel field-research that enabled installation of the UK's first full-scale groundwater-based air-conditioning system in a city centre. The research vindicated the applicability to UK ground and climate conditions of a concept that had hitherto been restricted to a single system in Canada. This has encouraged owners of other sites to develop the technology (Green Park Tube Station; the Tate Modern Gallery), where the authors worked with two leading companies (Max Fordham LLP, Contact: Ian Savill, I.Savill@maxfordham.com, and Parsons Brinckerhoff, Contact: David Birks, Geothermal Engineer, BirksD@pbworld.com) to install systems which provide >7GWh/yr of low-carbon cooling.