To ensure that the support and manufacturing areas within the brand new, state of the art Honda Racing Formula One Team (HRF1) wind tunnel facility were installed to the same high quality, high specification as that of the tunnel itself, Graham Miller, Director of Wind Tunnel Operations needed the best in the business. System Store Solutions rose to the challenge.

The HRF1 wind tunnel provides an excellent facility for aerodynamic development of its racing cars. The £30M wind tunnel has a rolling road and a fully computerised control system. Brand new data-processing software and computing hardware enables the user to make maximum use of the facility.

The tunnel, officially opened in July 2006 by Shigeru Takagi, president of Honda Motor Europe and Alistair Darling MP provides very high quality flow and a comprehensive range of instrumentation, which enable measurements of force, pressure and flow velocity to be made accurately and efficiently.

For the support and manufacturing areas, the main criterion was of course quality as the wind tunnel was to be a spectacle in design, technology and functionality. The £200k installation was comprised of many areas consisting of the model preparation area, the composites clean room, the machine shop, the trim, inspection and mould prep area, tunnel preparation area and the laboratories. System Store Solutions partnered with German worktop manufacturer Lechner to produce laminate worktops with hardwood edges and employed their specialised fitters to install around a number of pillars and other obstacles.

Fami, the Italian manufacturing market leader provided all of the metalwork products that have proven to be of the highest standard in their quality, look, durability and of course, functionality. HRF1 requested a special RAL colour and all of the cabinets were painted to this standard by FAMI.

The entire project took six months to complete with the System Store Solutions team of installers and project managers being on-site for the majority of the six-month period. The end result was a resounding success and was well received by Graham and his team. Graham Miller says, “System Store Solutions were extremely professional in their approach to this monumental project. The end result complimented this fantastic project perfectly and was exactly what I was looking for”.