The Solution

Working closely with Wink Engineering and the hotel’s facilities team, Griswold Controls recommended installing Automizer® combination control valve coil piping packages on the four-pipe fan coils.

Key Advantages

• Single Source for Coil Components Eliminates coordination issues and ensures system compatibility.
• Multi-Function Valve Combines actuated temperature control and flow limiting in one compact package.
• Small Footprint Ideal for historic buildings with tight mechanical space.
• Equal Percent Control Mirrors coil heat transfer curves for superior temperature regulation.
• Pre-Assembled & Ready to Install Reduces labor, installation time, and jobsite handling.

Because the Automizer features automatic flow control, the retrofit could be accomplished a few rooms at a time without affecting the rest of the hotel's circuits — making it the ideal product for hotel renovation. In a manual balance application, the entire system would have had to be rebalanced every time a room was taken offline. By installing the Automizer, the hotel minimized room downtime, substantially reducing the potential for lost revenue.

Automizer® Combination Control Valves

Automizer® Next Generation valves combine an actuated 2-way control valve with a stainless steel automatic flow limiting cartridge and manual isolation ball valve — all within one compact body.

• Globe Valve Performance Ball valve pricing with equal-percent control.
• Patented Optimizer® Inserts 30–50% greater rotation response.
• Automatic Flow Limiting Eliminates overflow and underflow.
• Field Repairable Stem Resistant to chemical treatments and temperature swings.

Coil Piping Packages & Hose Kits

Griswold Controls offers over 900 standard pre-plumbed coil piping packages that simplify engineering design and speed installation.

• Pre-Assembled & Shrink-Wrapped Ships ready to install.
• 48-Hour Shipping Standard packages up to 2″.
• Automatic or Manual Flow Options Works for any balancing application.
• Single Source Supply Eliminates compatibility concerns.

Located in the heart of Dallas, just north of the downtown business district in a formerly unusable inner city site, Victory Park is one of the country’s most significant master planned urban developments. The project began with the construction of the American Airlines Center Arena in late 2000, home of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and the Dallas Stars hockey team. A acre urban center, when complete Victory Park will offer retail establishments, dining, modern office space, residential units, entertainment venues, and a cutting-edge hotel. Part of the development will include Victory Plaza, an area reminiscent of Times Square in New York City.

In 2005, immediately across the street from the American Airlines Center, McCarthy General Contractors broke ground on what is now the W Hotel. The W Hotel, owned by Starwood Properties, is a 33 story luxury condo–hotel offering unique and exciting interiors, classic W amenities including terry/pique robes, an infinity edge swimming pool on the 16th floor, and top–notch restaurants and lounges. W Benton Wofford of James Johnston & Associates, the Consulting Engineer, designed the building to include hotel facilities up to the 15th floor, and luxury condo units from the 16th to 30th floors. Ross Perot Jr. has his own private penthouse suite complete with his own personal heliport on the roof.

Griswold Controls IRIS automatic packages with hoses were purchased for the terminal units; vertical stack heat pumps in the hotel rooms; and to maximize floor space, horizontal heat pumps for the condo units. Griswold Controls space saver packages were selected on the vertical stack units because space limitations required that the packages fit inside the heat pump cabinets.

Matt Summerville of Brandt Engineering, project manager for the mechanical contractor and long-time Griswold Controls customer, was pleased to provide Griswold Controls with project details. As a matter of fact, Brandt employee Mike Clark, the piping superintendent, told Griswold Controls that he had no problems whatsoever with any of the 382 Griswold Controls packages on the W Hotel and would not only use Griswold Controls products again, but would highly recommend them.

The W Hotel opened in June, 2006.