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19 Luxury Apartments Served By Two Boilers

Residents at 10 Berkeley Street in London are benefiting from 33% energy savings, thanks to two powerful Thision L Plus 200kW wall-hung boilers from ELCO. The Mayfair property contains 19 high-end residential apartments, each utilising the boilers for their heating and hot water requirements.

Lifting station saves the day at FE college

When an FE college in Nottinghamshire called on DL Mechanical’s expertise to advise on a change-of-use project to improve the facilities for mechanics apprentices, the Sanispeed+ from Saniflo was specified to provide a solution to take away the grey water.

Changing a classroom to a workshop required the installation of a wash down area. A site survey confirmed that no drains were in the immediate vicinity of the required area, so an alternative solution was found.

The Sanispeed+ was specified to discharge the water from the new washdown area. Terry Fisher, mechanical contracts manager at DL Mechanical, oversaw the project. He explains how Saniflo’s solution was a real problem solver:

“The Sanispeed+ pretty much enabled the project to go ahead. Bar drilling a bore hole – which would have been prohibitively expensive – a pumped solution was the only way forward. The Saniflo unit is a simple plug and play solution so proved easy to install and it has been working efficiently and effectively from day one.”

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Aaron Housen of commercial heating specialists Dunamis Heating & Mechanical Services was asked to replace the old boilers with a more efficient system. Aaron explains: “The plant room is very compact so when the owner looked for an alternative, we had to look at designing a new system, considering what products we could use to maximise the space without compromising energy efficiency.

“The apartments needed to have a continuation of their heating and hot water services, so we chose the Thision L Plus from ELCO. Having the ability to squeeze almost 200kW onto the wall – given the space constraints – was a key factor in selecting the units for this project.”

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Ground source heat pump system cuts down carbon

Kensa Contracting and Thurrock Council have switched on the first ground source heat pump in a landmark energy upgrade scheme, replacing night storage heaters in three social housing high-rise tower blocks at Chadwell St Mary in Thurrock.

The ground source heat pumps, which are linked by a shared ground loop array system, are expected to reduce fuel bills by over 50% for some households and cut carbon emissions by 70%, saving an estimated 7080 tonnes of CO2 over the lifetime of the heat pumps.

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