JS Air Curtains has supplied and installed a Windbox 18 kW air curtain for the Esprit Store in London’s Covent Garden. It was specified by consulting engineers E&M Tecnica of Surrey.

Keston Boilers has supplied a bespoke rig to provide all the heating and domestic-hot-water needs of the engine production facility of Honda Racing Development in Bracknell, which supplies racing engines for Honda Racing and Super Aguri Formula One teams.

Boilers and radiators supplied by MHS feature prominently in the refurbishment of the imposing Land Registry building in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London.

When supply problems were encountered with air-conditioning equipment for new offices for a leading company providing temporary staffing solutions, air-conditioning specialist Cool Air Solutions turned to Climate Center for help — and took delivery of six Panasonic wall-mounted units the next day.

The carbon footprint of the new Walthamstow Academy in London has been reduced by the installation of a 120 kW biomass boiler from Broag. It is fuelled by compressed wood pellets fed from a store on the ground floor next to the first-floor plant room.

Oventrop vales have been used exclusively throughout a redevelopment at Rochford Hospital in Essex.

The upgrading of three ventilation systems at Leeds Metropolitan University will reduce running costs by an estimated £25 000 a year, for a capital spend of £47 000. That saving corresponds to 438 MWh of electricity and a reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions of over 192 t.

Actulite polarised daylight lighting is being widely installed in the offices of the Leicester Mercury newspaper following its success during refurbishment work.

Heating for a new school in Wrexham is provided by ground-source heat pumps serving underfloor heating. It was designed by NIBE Energy Systems and comprises 11 boreholes 100 m deep drilled into the school grounds before landscaping.

Unpleasantly high temperatures of around 38°C in a London laundry have been reduced by 10 to 15 K following the installation of a Breezair evaporative cooling system. The system for Bates Laundry in Leyton was specified and installed by Cosaf Environments, exclusive UK distributor for the system.

Vaillant’s solar domestic-hot-water system has been installed to serve two shower facilities at a Ministry of Defence Establishment in Dorset. They were installed by Southern Pipe Services, whose Dave Dodd says, ‘We use Vaillant products a lot and have completed several solar installation using their system.’

The energy needed to provide heating and cooling for a new clubhouse for the golf club at St Andrews Links will be substantially reduced following the installation of a new system from Mitsubishi Electric.

A total of 200 m of Vulcathene pipework has been installed to carry chemical waste from sinks in new science laboratories at King’s College School at Wimbledon. Pipework ranging in sizes from 6 mm to 100 mm was used in six laboratories built as an extension to the existing science block.

Recycling water used in evaporative condensers at ASDA’s distribution centre in Lutterworth will reduce water consumption and the discharge of water-treatment chemicals. In addition, electricity consumption will be reduced.

Walls built with hemp will be a major feature of a new building at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales. Hemcrete is a mixture of hemp stalks, lime and a small quantity of cement. It produces less carbon emissions than conventional concrete, owing to the fact that cement is fired at high temperatures, using a lot of energy. The energy needed to make cement accounts for about 10% of carbon emissions globally.

Guests at the recently opened Ramada Encore hotel in Chatham are enjoying the benefits of air conditioning provided by Ability Aurora II fan-coil units installed by Tandy Engineering Services of Gloucester.

Senior Hargreaves has completed the installation of heating and ventilation ductwork for the new Echo Arena and BT conference and exhibition complex on Liverpool’s waterfront. The project was handed over in phases, with completion in April.

Intelligent control panels supplied by Advanced Electronics are at the heart of the upgrade of a large fire-detection system at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham. The NIA is one of the busiest large-scale indoor sporting and entertainment venues in Europe. It can seat up to 14 500 people, but flexible seating allows the layout to be adjusted. It also has four car parks.

Hamilton Litestat’s Sheer stainless-steel range of wiring accessories feature in the new Radisson Edwardian Hotel in the Docklands area of London — along with a range of specials that include room status indicators and a door-entry system.

The City of York is looking to reduce maintenance call-outs and costs associated with central-heating systems in its housing stock with the installation of magnetic filter technology. The programme involves the installation of MagnaClean Professional filters to maintain and protect central-heating systems by removing black-iron oxide contamination which leads to inefficient performance, system deterioration and eventual failure.

Tesco is achieving costs savings on excess of £1.1 million a year, following the adoption of a lighting and energy improvement programme from Dalkia for its distribution centres. Dalkia’s integrated approach to cost and carbon savings, CarbonCare, is delivering energy savings in line with Tesco’s policy to reduce electrical consumption.

Ventilation specialist Titon has been awarded ISO14001 environmental management certification. As part of the certification process, Titon had all its waste streams examined and has put in place a number of improvements, including recycling and reusing all plastics, shredding all waste paper and reusing it in product packaging and resmelting metals.

Big Foot Systems are designed to support anything installed on a flat roof, creating a secure support for all air-conditioning/refrigeration roof plant and associated services. The key to the systems is that they allow you to maintain the roof without decommissioning the equipment supported on it. Big Foot eliminates the need for drilling holes in the deck or building concrete supports — potential sources of damage and leaks. They offer a free 48 hour design service and can supply a bespoke framework from stocked parts and deliver the next working day. All Big Foot Systems are covered by an independent 15 year warranty.

The installation of more than 14 km of Cablofil steel-wire cable-management tray is nearing completion in Liverpool’s new Arena & Convention Centre by Haden Young.

Fan-coil units made by Ability Projects have been installed in the spectacular Stratford Eye complex in the London Borough of Newham. This development by Wates for the London & Quadrant Housing Trust comprises a 19-storey tower of luxury apartments and a lower-level linear complex of commercial and mixed-tenure residential accommodation.

Rehau’s Rauthermex pre-insulated PEXa pipework has been supplied for a district-heating scheme of 250 units by Bellaway Homes. The Park 25 development in Redhill has a ring main using the Rauthermex system to supply to supply heating and hot water for each apartment. The corrugation of the outer jacket permits tight bends with small forces, so fewer connections are needed.

Raychem trace-heating systems are providing freeze protection for piped water service lines throughout the modules of the new Halley VI Antarctic Research Station. It is being built for the British Antarctic Survey.

A combination of biomass and gas-fired condensing boilers supplied by Hoval meet the space-heating and hot-water requirements of the new Newark Beacon business innovation centre in Nottinghamshire. It is one of a network of business innovation centres in the region. Its 2884 m22 of accommodation across two floors comprises four light workshops and 27 office suites, as well as conference and cafe/break-out facilities. Sustainability and achieving a high BREEAM rating were key design criteria.

Contributing to the energy-efficient operation of the extension and refurbishment of the visitor centre at Kenfig Nature Reserve near Bridgend is the use of Passivent natural ventilation. The project has won two environmental awards — the National Gold Green Apple Award for the Built Environment & Architectural Heritage and the Consortium of Local Authorities of Wales Award for Sustainable Building of the Year.

To protect the power supply for the imaging facility of the Zoology Department of Cambridge University a Chloride 30 kVA 70-NET uninterruptible power supply has been installed. Batteries can supply power for nine minutes to prevent data loss and damage to four computer-controlled confocual microscopes, equipped with light detection and lasers.

The application of free cooling in a store of Wilkinson is having a dramatic effect on the use of mechanical cooling, leading to it being rolled out to 148 of its stores with ducted ventilation systems. The preliminary trial of a system installed by GK Industrial reduced the use of the cooling system from 45 hours to nine hours a week, a reduction of nearly 80% and achieving a cost saving of £4.30/m2, based on current energy prices. Wilkinson has nearly 300 stores in the UK.

As part of the campaign by Marks & Spencer to become carbon neutral within five years, Eurex Energy has supplied Airvolution low-energy air-conditioning systems to several stores. Eurex installed and commissioned the systems, which required remodelling the existing air-distribution system from total loss to supply-and-extract air distribution, with energy being reclaimed from the extract air. It is common for retail stores to be served by fresh-air systems, with the conditioned air being driven out through the main doors into the street.

60% of the energy needed for heating, cooling and domestic hot water for new buildings at a school in Sheffield is provided by a ground-source heat-pump installation. Sharrow School is little more than a mile from the city centre.

Britannia kitchen ventilation has engineered a special solution to provide ventilation for a new kitchen for the Grade 1 listed Wadham College of Oxford University.

John Lewis’s new store in Cambridge is three times larger than its previous store in the city. Its 13 400 m2 is air conditioned throughout by Daikin VRV and Sky Air air-conditioning systems designed and specified by CSA Consulting Engineers of London and installed by Daikin D1 installer Breathe Air of Cambridge.

Hoval SR combination boilers have been specified by consulting engineers Hannan & Associates for the rapidly expanding network of JJB Fitness Clubs. They are serving central air-handling plant, DHW systems and swimming pools and spas.

Energy-efficient water heating, with fast recovery, for various buildings of Stramillis University College in Belfast is provided by a range of Lochinvar equipment.

Village hotels are a breath of fresh air

Over 2500 m of Electrak’s 63 A underfloor busbar has been installed throughout all six floors of office accommodation in Fort Dunlop, one of Birmingham’s iconic buildings, which has been transformed by Urban Splash. The system was chosen by electrical contractor Mitie Engineering for its ease of installation and cost effectiveness.

To minimise disruption during installation and avoid damage to the historic Cunard Building in Liverpool, EMS Group has installed a wire-free analogue addressable fire-detection system.

Evaporative cooling has been installed to cool the top floor of Stylo Barratts’ 3-floor distribution warehouse in Bradford and improve air quality. This floor measures 85 x 75 m and is the main picking area. It has a large number of skylights and an extensive single-skin roof, so it became extremely hot in summer.

To minimise the energy consumption of his super-efficient home-heating system, Dr Michael Lamperth, a world-renowned developer of energy-efficient vehicle technologies, uses wireless Honeywell heating control of individual radiators. These controls heat rooms only when required and only to the temperature that has been preset for that time of day.

Trox has completed the supply of £1 million-worth of airside fan-coil units and diffusers for various contracts for Bankside 1/2/3 on London’s South Bank.

Following a comment in an Ofsted report that the fabric of the school building was contributing to classrooms feeling hot and stuffy, Manor Green Primary School in Tameside, Greater Manchester, has installed 10 Vaillant climaVAIR high-efficiency wall-mounted heat-pump systems with a total cooling duty of 52 kW. The rest of the Ofsted report was excellent.

As part of the renewal of heating systems in the 152 buildings that make up Colchester Barracks, AmbiRad radiant heating has been installed in the large workshops and stores.

As part of a major upgrade of the UK headquarters in Redhill of global engineering, consulting and construction company Black & Veatch, the radiator heating system and boilers have been removed and replaced with Daikin VRV systems to provide both heating and cooling.

Evinox is providing Belmont Homes with the Geminox Modusat for heating and cooling at Coast, its latest development in Hove. The Modusat units in the 68 apartments will be supplied with hot water from four Geminox boilers providing just 400 kW overall.

Portakabin’s expertise in modular buildings has been utilised in the delivery of a 1800 m2 project for the Ministry of Defence within 30 weeks. The building includes a stylish barrel roof, large picture windows for increased natural light and a barrelled canopy.

Unnoticed by visitors to the centre of Stratford upon Avon are 47 cottages (same dating back to the 17th century) where actors and theatre staff are housed during the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) season. The RSC has now started a programme of improvements to the cottages and their heating and plumbing works.