CONTRACT NEWS BOUYGUES CHOSEN FOR TURNKEY DELIVERY OF NEW DATA CENTRE Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting, a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction, has been selected by VIRTUS Data Centres for the turnkey delivery of its LONDON7 data centre. LONDON7 is the third facility on VIRTUS’ Stockley Park campus, which is the largest in London and the UK. Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting will be responsible for the design, build, electrical and mechanical services and commissioning of the data centre. The TIER III data centre will be built with an overall floor area of 26,000m² including 13,000m² of technical IT data space. When fully deployed, the facility will offer 28MW of critical IT load using state-of-the-art technologies to cater to high-density customer requirements. It will deploy a highly efficient flooded room principal for cooling, including chilled water and air hot-aisle containment at the rack level. This will significantly decrease energy and water consumption compared to the typical data centre performance characteristics. The facility will consist of 8Nr self-contained data halls, all designed eco-efficiently and capable of subdivision for maximum flexibility from a rack in a shared space, to their own suite or data hall, each with its own dedicated power and innovative cooling systems.
Bouygues Energies & Services Contracting will bring an innovative modular solution to achieve the quality, speed to market, scalability and flexibility required in this state-ofthe-art data centre. In collaboration with its core supply chain partners, the 28MW power units will be assembled, pre-tested and pre-commissioned at the manufacturing
site in Blackburn. The final installation, test and commissioning of the power units will be executed after 12 weeks of pre-fabrication and deployed in approximately 9MW increments across a nine-day period. Bouygues Energies & Services, bouygues-es.co.uk
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ECA MEMBERS SUPPORT NHS NIGHTINGALE HOSPITALS The building of NHS Nightingale Hospitals in England during the pandemic has been supported by a range of ECA Members, including Interserve, Kier, NG Bailey and Power Electrics. Other ECA Members were involved in supporting hospital construction in Scotland and Wales, including Balfour Beatty, Highadmit Projects, JM Walden, RDM Electrical & Mechanical, Alpine Works and IWEC Electrical. Temporary new hospitals have been built across the country, in locations including Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, London, Glasgow, and Cwmbran in Wales. Helen Atkinson, ECA Director of Member Services, comments, “It was pleasing to see ECA Member businesses helping to build these emergency hospitals at this critical time for our country. It highlights the importance of engineering services to the successful delivery of key infrastructure projects. “Many ECA Member businesses are continuing to work through these challenging times to ensure that construction projects continue and that existing buildings are maintained and they should all be proud of the part they are playing.” Interserve was involved with the Nightingale Hospital in Birmingham, where 400 employees worked over 86,000 hours, sometimes 16 hours
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a day. They laid 64 miles of electrical cable, 10 football pitches worth of vinyl flooring and 10 miles of copper piping. Matt Loffman, Design and Technical Manager, Interserve Engineering Services, states, “There was a distinct and overwhelming feeling of national pride in being part of the team in delivering this project. I am proud to have played my part in supporting my colleagues in the successful delivery. It’s something that will live with me forever.” ECA Members have given active support to the national effort to protect societal health and the NHS in other ways. For example, Walden Security, a division of T Clarke, supplied new HIKVision thermal fever scanning cameras to the NHS. In addition, other ECA Members including Lindhurst Engineering and the University of Bath, either provided valuable PPE to the NHS or led campaigns to encourage donations of key protective equipment. There were also many other donations from ECA Members to the NHS, including HE Simm, donating 500 reusable water bottles to Liverpool hospitals and Hilton Cannon Electrical, providing some Easter cheer to hospitals in Nottingham by donating Easter eggs.
Worcestershire-based independent connections provider, Rock Power Connections, has finalised the installation of an electrical supply to Alban House, a Grade II listed façade that has recently been converted into a residential development in Hereford City Centre. The building, which had previously stood empty for over six years, has been converted into 18 luxury apartments and two commercial units. Rock Power Connections was appointed to upgrade and install the new electrical supply for the residential development, which included the implementation of a new onsite substation and individual meters for each apartment. Due to the Saxon heritage of the site, Rock Power Connections appointed an archaeologist to oversee all excavations and ensure the history of the building was preserved. This included housing the 500KVA packaged substation in a listed coach house, which required additional listed-building consent. Rob Davies, Project Manager for Rock Power Connections, explains, “Due to the site being of historical interest, upfront planning was key to this project to address and mitigate all potential issues. “We encountered various challenges whilst completing this project, including finding oyster shells, which caused delays, and meant the team had to work closely with Western Power Distribution and their contractor to reschedule works. However, we were all very pleased with the end result and particularly in seeing a new development of modern apartments within the local community.” Alban House is one of the latest connection projects to have been completed by the growing independent connections provider, where the Rock team liaised very closely with Western Power Distribution, the Council and the archaeologist to ensure the installation was treated sensitively, whilst adhering to the project timescale. Rock Power Connections, rockpowerconnections.co.uk
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