Location: Echuca, Victoria 3564
Contractor: Specific Refrigeration & Mechanical Services

The $8.3 million Echuca Cancer and Wellness Centre will deliver a new chemotherapy/haemodialysis unit at Echuca Regional Health. This project will relocate Echuca Regional Health’s existing chemotherapy/haemodialysis unit to a new purpose-built cancer and wellness centre to improve amenity, access and comfort for patients, and provide a more efficient working environment for staff.

The new centre will deliver 12 new chemotherapy/haemodialysis treatment chairs and provide wellness programs to help improve the health and wellbeing of cancer patients. Patients will continue to be able to access consultations with haematologists, medical oncologists, nephrologists and radiation oncologists, all conveniently located in one location.

For the new purpose-built centre with improved amenity and comfort for patients the requirements of an equipment for generating large volumes of fresh air arose. The mechanical consultants discussed the needs of the project which comprised of a new heat exchanged equipment to provide heating & ventilation.

Looking into the needs of the project, Armcor selected the REC7000P3S-CHE for manufacturing and supplying which was the REM Rotary Heat Wheel with Coils. Armcor’s REM series is the ultimate in High Efficiency Heat Recovery utilizing a rotary heat exchanger to recover the energy from the exhaust air and transfer it to the incoming fresh air. With efficiencies up to 87%, this unit configuration suits external rooftop or plant room applications and includes energy saving EC Plug Fans, in-built bag filters and an option of enthalpy or sensible rotary heat wheels. With the low resistance through the media, economy bypass is affected through stopping the rotary heat wheel.

The unit was manufactured and successfully delivered as per project delivery timelines.

Work begins on new Echuca Cancer and Wellness Centre