McQuay wins major air-conditioning contract for new Birmingham hospital
McQuay has secured a contract for over a hundred air-handling units and eight chillers for this new hospital in Birmingham.
Over a hundred McQuay Easdale model 50 air-handling units have been ordered to date for the first new hospital to be built in Birmingham for over 70 years. McQuay is also supplying eight air-cooled chillers. This PFI hospital will cost over £560 million by the time it is completed in 2012 and is being built for the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust by a joint venture of Balfour Beatty and Haden Young. The main facility on the 50 acre site of the old Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston will have over 1200 acute and 130 psychiatric beds. 111 Easdale 50 AHUs have been ordered to date for the six sectors in the development by Haden Young, which is responsible for designing, installing and commissioning all the building services. McQuay is supplying, installing and pre-testing the units, before commissioning. Most of the units have airflows from 0.5 to 8 m3/s and are supply-and-extract units with heat-recovery run-around coils. McQuay is also supplying eight ALS XN air-cooled chillers. They each have a cooling capacity of nearly 1500 kW and four high-efficiency single-rotor screw compressors. Before delivery to site, they will be split into two sections for lifting purpose and reassembled in position on the roof before testing and commissioning. They use R134a.
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