JS Air Curtains has supplied bespoke air curtains for the offices of Associated Newspapers in Kensington.

Luxo is supplying complete lighting schemes for six primary schools in Dundee. McGill Electrical is installing the innovative lighting systems to achieve significant cost savings without compromising the quality of the fittings or the overall lighting requirements.

The former home of Arsenal Football Club, now renamed The Stadium, has a key electrical power infrastructure designed and made by Zucchini. The site covers about 10 acres and has over 700 luxury apartments, landscaped gardens with feature water walls, underground car park and on-site fitness centre.

The 22 m-high ceiling in the Amsterdam Stock Exchange posed particular problems for the lighting component of the refurbishment, for it was not possible to use direct/indirect light.

Hawthorn Lodge, a care home in Nottingham, is set to enjoy lower energy costs following the installation of four new Hamworthy boilers to replace underperforming and out-dated boilers. BP Dempsey of Sheffield installed two Wessex ModuMax 120 condensing boilers and two Dorchester DR-RS 40 gas-fired water heaters for Regal Care Homes, which is already making a good payback in fuel savings.

Following an audit of the energy used by pumps in its ice-cream factory in Gloucestershire, Unilever dramatically reduced its energy consumption for pumping by installing Grundfos variable-speed pumps.

Over 130 fan-coil units with infinitely variable speed control of each fan have been installed in the second phase of Castlegate Square in Sheffield. Made by Ability Projects, the 4-pipe Matrix Trojan EC fan-coil units enable the volume of air through each duct to be balanced through fan speed alone, removing the need for volume-control dampers. These fan-coil units are also designed to adjust the overall air volume according to room occupancy, thermal demand or a combination of both. The Matrix system is fitted with a BACnet open-protocol intelligent controller, factory pre-wired to the fan coil and complete with dedicated software. This controller incorporates modulating valve control, on-coil temperature sensing etc. It also offers wireless acess from a PC to all fan-coil features and settings without needing access to the ceiling void. These fan-coil units were installed by Emcor Engineering Services. They have cooling capacities from 0.6 to 6.8 kW and heating capacities from 0.6 to 22.6 kW. They are installed throughout the six floors of this 4000 m2 project. Specified noise ratings are NR35.

An arson attack on 60 flats being built by Clayfield Construction at Normanton in West Yorkshire was prevent from getting out of control by an early warning from the Tag Guard Fire Alert system used at the site.

Graham Atkinson of heating contractor K. R. Martin has continued his regular installation of Broag-Remeha Quinta boilers with the installation of two Quinta 30 boilers at the new offices of Brewer Timothy Taylor in Keighley. They were installed alongside a Remtank SS180 hot-water cylinder with associated valves and fittings. The boiler was fitted with a Rematic 2945 integral control panel.

The building-control installation at the Radisson SAS Waterfront Hotel in Jersey was the largest that Priva Building Intelligence and M&E contractor Bailey Building Services had done.

The refurbishment of the 720 VAV (variable air volume) boxes serving the air-conditioning system of the Financial Services Authority at London’s Canary Wharf has been completed by Trox’s UK service division. The project involved validating the 15-year-old VAV boxes, and recommending refurbishment actions. The refurbishment work included changing the fans, actuators that drive the blade open and closed and other components as required. The building was occupied, so the FSA released floors individually by moving people to other areas. The rolling programme involved the completion of one or two floors at a time. The consultants were hurleypalmerflatt. Services contractor was M. J. Lonsdale, with ISG as project manager.

The large and modern private equine hospital at Newmarket has its heating system regulated exclusively by Oventrop valves, chosen and installed by mechanical-services contractor Dodd Group Eastern.

World Courier has installed a Scorpion gas-powered generator to support its refrigeration system to solve the problem of not being able to install a diesel generator in its car park due to regulatory constraints.

Interior designer Deborah Drew, who appears in BBC1’s DIY SOS programme, has installed Raychem electrical underfloor heating under new solid-wood floors in the hallway and living room of a residential refurbishment project in Porthcawl.

To cater for growing numbers of students and staff in its specialist training centre in Liverpool, Kaplan has installed Panasonic air-conditioning equipment to serve four new training rooms in Cotton House, a 1960s office development that replaced the original ornate facade of the 11906 Cotton Exchange building. The rooms are on the sixth floor.

Armstrong variable-speed drives have been selected for a packaged plant room for the data centre of ATOS Origin in Andover for their potential to nearly halve energy consumption compared with constant-speed constant-volume alternatives.

Focal-point flame-effect fan convectors from Smith’s Environmental Products have been installed in over a thousand properties of Bristol City Council to meet the Decent Homes Standard.

To avoid disruption from power blackouts and brownouts at its UK headquarters, Batt Cables has installed standby generators to cover three key areas of its site at Erith in Kent.

The main kitchen of one of the oldest fortified positions in the UK in active military service, Fort Blockhouse in Portsmouth, is ventilated using a Heydal ventilated-system from Britannia.

Konstructa has supplied high-quality office and recreation facilities for over 150 workers for two months at Corby power station while a major project on the exhaust ducts is carried out.

Danlers energy-saving lighting controls have been installed as part of a major office refurbishment at Cadbury’s site in Bournville, West Midlands.

Oasis Academy at Wintringham has installed Vimpex Fire-Cryer multi-message voice sounders to ensure safe evacuation in the event of an incident. The brand new buildings accommodate 1100 students and staff, and ADT Fire & Security has installed over 230 voice sounders to distinguish alarms from other bells and sounders used in a school

As part of ASDA’s comprehensive energy-efficiency programme, the recently opened store at Bootle, Merseyside, incorporates 35 Monodraught Sunpipe systems 450 mm in diameter to bring daylight into a wide area of the first-floor mezzanine. This area includes a customer restaurant overlooking the sales floor, staff facilities with restaurant and cafeteria, communal changing room, meeting room and offices.

This electric scissor lift from AFI-Uplift’s Scotland depot was one of five hired by contractors working on the construction of a new secondary school at Milngavie, Glasgow.

Lighting at the ship-building facilities of BVT at HMNB Portsmouth has been greatly improved by the installation of long-life, energy-efficient Brilliance fittings from Chalmor. Savings in energy and maintenance are expected to provide a payback of just over a year.

A gas-engine-driven heat pump using Calor LPG is bringing the benefits of renewable energy to Leslie Castle, an important historic building in Monaghan, Ireland.

Grundfos is so established at Wimbledon — the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club — that it says every pump and pumping product there has been supplied by the company. Grundfos has worked with Wimbledon’s preferred contractors for many years and supplied and commissioned a wide range of products for each stage of the development plan that was unveiled in 1993.

Three Hamworthy Purewell VariHeat 180 condensing boilers in an unusual new greenhouse plant room help West Ham Park produce over 280 000 bedding plants a year for the 77 acre park and various gardens, churchyards and other open spaces in the City of London.

In the short time that it has been responsible for maintaining mechanical and electrical services for the Lothbury headquarters in London of private bank Brown Shipley, Delrac ACS has identified a number of issues where systems were not correctly installed.

Regular complaints at the Chester headquarters of The Funding Corporation that open-plan workspaces, offices and meeting rooms were either too hot or too cold are a thing of the past following the replacement of the life-expired air-conditioning systems with inverter-controlled Panasonic systems.

A semiconductor manufacturer in Plymouth is saving over £30 000 a year since installing six 37 kW ABB HVAC drives on its three cooling towers. The £15 000 installation for X-FAB, one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the UK, is set to give a payback in only six months — with an annual saving of £31 400. The drives were installed by local ABB HVAC partner Drive Control.

The replacement of two Hitachi chillers with two Hitachi Samurai 400 kW chillers at the UK headquarters of Xchanging in the City of London is expected to reduce energy consumption for chilled water by over 60 MWh a year, corresponding to over 7 t of carbon a year.

Exposed water service lines at Cranfield University’s new facility for health research and teaching on the campus in Essex are protected against frost by Raychem self-regulating heat-tracing systems.

The London Transport Museum in Covent Garden has installed Vimpex Fire-Cryer voice sounders to raise alarms.

Selected for their ability to pasteurise hot-water systems and control legionella risks, Oventop Aquastrom T Plus valves have been specified by MLM Consulting Engineers for the DHW system of the new Newton Abbot Hospital, due to open at the beginning of next year.

Andrews Water heaters has supplied a solar-thermal system with 21 m2 of evacuated tubes for the new £11 million Nancy Astor Building at the University of Plymouth. The system is supported by two Maxxflo direct-fired storage water heaters. The building is the new home of the Faculty of Health & Social Work.

When relaxing at D&D London on Kirby Street, it is difficult to imaging that the building was once a tired 1960s office block. The transformation of the 2400 m2 building into a contemporary commercial development includes the Hiross underfloor air conditioning from Advanced Ergonomic Technologies.

Illuminex’s Xscape intelligent emergency-lighting products have been installed as part of the refurbishment of the secure unit at St Bernard’s Hospital of the West London NHS Mental health Trust. The behaviour of some patients can lead to self harm or damage to other people or property, so safety and security were considerations in deciding on equipment to be used.

Discreet air conditioning has been added to Brunel’s SS Great Britain using Toshiba equipment supplied by AMP Air Conditioning and installed by H&F Air Conditioning. The ship is now a museum and a venue for weddings, civil partnerships, conferences and corporate receptions. It attracts 170 000 visitors a year.

Equipment for the heating system of the extension to the Tank Museum at Bovington has been supplied by the Bournemouth branch of BSS Industrial. The project is funded by £16 million from the National Lottery.

All hot- and cold-water services for the £8.5 million relocation of a Doncaster school are provided by Durapipe Friatherm pipework in sizes up to 90 mm.

The state-of-the-art community sports centre that is the new home of football-league club Colchester United has been fitted with Titon Trimvent variable-opening trickle ventilators and canopies.

The latest range of extract canopies from Ledaire extends from the simple condense hood through to custom-built supply/extract type, complete with lights and fire-suppression systems.