The Space Cerro Maggiore

Cerro Maggiore, Milan – Italy
Revamping of Multiplex Cinema with 11 screens in 2009
System: Packaged
Year 2023

Air conditioning for cinemas

The Space Multiplex Cerro Maggiore

The Space Mutiplex cinema in Cerro Maggiore, opened in 2009, has 11 screens with Digital Dolby Surround technology, spacious and comfortable seats, and a catering area.

The challenge
The Space Cinema circuit places the spectator at the centre, and always wants to offer excellent cinema facilities both in terms of film reproduction technology, programming and comfort inside the building.
Great attention is also given to reducing the environmental impact of its cinemas and to containing operating costs, within which a significant quota is represented by air conditioning and renewal systems.
In 2009, in order to achieve these objectives, The Space Cinema relied on Clivet and now, 14 years later, has decided to rely again on Clivet for the revamping of the Cerro Maggiore cinema's systems in order to continue this continuous process of efficiency improvement.

The Space Cerro Maggiore sostituzione Rooftop

The solution and the results

The old Clivet rooftop units have been replaced by 12 high-crowding rooftop units of the CLIVETPack2 CSNX-XHE2 series which, compared to the previous series, have much higher efficiencies thanks to the technological innovations they are equipped with: THOR thermodynamic recovery, electronically controlled fans, ECOBREEZE, FREE-COOLING device to reduce the consumption of the fans of the external section.

The units are designed to produce only the cooling or heating energy really needed to condition the rooms, adapting their operation according to the thermal load detected by the dedicated temperature and humidity probes. In addition, the amount of fresh air is modulated according to the actual crowding of the rooms, calculated on the basis of the amount of CO2 detected by the air quality probes.
With the new rooftops, air quality is also improved thanks to electronic filters with iFD technology, which guarantee a filtration efficiency of up to ISO ePM1 90%, the equivalent of an absolute filter. In addition, thanks to the very low pressure drop, they allow considerable cost savings for ventilation.

All of this is entrusted to Clivet's INTELLIAIR centralised management and supervision system, which allows the desired temperature and air quality parameters for each room to be set simply, functionally and independently, as well as controlling and monitoring the operating status of the system and the individual air-conditioning units installed.
With this solution, the newly installed system can guarantee not only even greater comfort than the replacement system, but also significant energy savings and consequent reduction of running costs.


The Space Cerro Maggiore Rooftop Clivet

Installed units

  • 12 CLIVETPack2 CSNX-XHE2 (15.3, 16.4, 20.4, 24.4) air-cooled reversible rooftop heat pumps for high occupancy
  • INTELLIAIR centralised management and supervision system

The protagonists

Tenant: The Space Cinema
Works Management and CSE: Studio di Architettura Bodrino -Todini
Client: E.M. SOLUZIONI ENGINEERING - PM Domenico Oliva and Enrico Onorati
Installer: BConsulting SRL - Gabriele Bonato

Insight 

Analyses carried out have shown that the development of Clivet rooftop technology makes it possible to increase machine efficiency by 15% and decrease fan consumption by 30%; the revamping of the system therefore avoids the emission into the atmosphere of around 11 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year.