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Products in Action Meeting the ventilation challenge
Historic hotel, modern boilers ATAG Commercial has supplied four floor standing XL-F boilers to the historic Littlecote House Hotel, Hungerford, replacing four longstanding units as part of a major plant room renovation. This was the first installation of the XL-F in cascade in the UK. Founded in the mid-1500s, this Grade I listed Tudor manor has 208 bedrooms, a leisure club, restaurant and spa – all of which required a modern and reliable heating system. In order to fulfil the hotel’s requirements, three XL210F boilers and one XL180F floorstanding boiler were specified and installed in early 2021. The whole process was undertaken
and managed by Farehambased mechanical and electrical building service engineers, J&B Hopkins Ltd. The new boilers benefit from dual heat exchanger technology, which provides built-in redundancy, while creating a cascade system within a single unit. The XL-F boiler is a ‘plug and play’ system, with the pumps, water non-return valves, and flue non-return valves neatly integrated inside, resulting in reduced set-up time and costs. All models in the range benefit from an excellent footprint to power ratio which enables them to be fitted in small plant rooms. ◼ phamnews.co.uk/921/40
Heat pump solution for new homes The monobloc air to water Therma V heat pump by LG has been selected to provide heating and hot water for three new homes built by niche builder RS Construction in Sparkford, in the countryside just outside Castle Cary in Somerset. The three properties all benefit from high levels of insulation which make heat pumps the perfect solution for energy efficient, low cost
Ventilation solutions from Gilberts Blackpool have been used in the latest visitor attraction based on TV’s ‘I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here’. The 2500m2 facility in MediaCityUK, Manchester, includes climbing walls, zip wires and tree top trails. Kimpton Energy Solutions designed and installed the mechanical building services for the back-of-house areas. The ventilation equipment provided by Gilberts was
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swirl diffuser with coanda plates to induct high volumes of air into the areas, without draughts or cold ‘dumping’. Gilberts’ GSXE exposed circular perforated diffusers provide extraction. ◼ phamnews.co.uk/921/39
Macerator pump keeps museum in ship-shape order The Saniflo Sanicubic macerator pump has been specified for a replica of the famous ship, the Golden Hinde, known for circumnavigating the globe during the 16th century under the command of Sir Francis Drake. Sitting in dry dock, the replica ship is now a stunning floating museum and events venue near London Bridge. A Sanicubic was first installed a couple of years ago in the dock beneath the ship to take the waste from two WC cubicles. It discharges waste up and along the dock walls through 35mm pipes to connect to the sewers above street level. When the team decided to install on-board facilities during the lockdown, Sanicubic fit the brief. Located beneath the floorboards in the bow of the ship, it is positioned to take waste from two new WC cubicles and basins as well as a new kitchen area in the galley. A dishwasher, sink and ice maker are all plumbed into the Sanicubic thanks to multiple outlets. ◼ phamnews.co.uk/921/41
heating and hot water. Roger Walters of RS Construction says he only installs renewable heating systems now: “We only build three or four new homes a year but we build them to extremely high specification so that our purchasers get real value for money. The LG Therma V monoblocs are perfect for the quality of home we build and set something of a template for other housebuilders as we head towards 2025 and the government’s ban on the use of fossil fuel heating systems.” ◼ phamnews.co.uk/921/42
Builder opts for the ClipRail underfloor system The practical and logistical benefits, as well as the price competitiveness offered by Circoflo’s range of underfloor heating solutions, have led to its ClipRail system being used for a development of nine
designed to ensure adequate fresh air into the enclosed areas, and exhaust of used air, all while being unobtrusive in the customer facing areas. The solution was to utilise the company’s GSF omni-directional
dwellings in rural West Yorkshire. Locally based R. J. Jones installed all of the plumbing and heating services throughout the new houses - five terraced and four large detached properties. In the first five houses completed, R. J. Jones’s engineers clipped the 12mm pipe runs down across Jablite insulation, ready for the flooring contractor to lay a conventional wet screed, and connecting each circuit back to the plot-specific manifolds provided as part of the Circoflo package. The 133mm pipe spacing and good thermal transmittance via the screed will help achieve very good occupant comfort while assisting the heating systems to run at optimum efficiency. ClipRail is one of half a dozen UFH solutions offered by Circoflo for the installation of high performance and affordable heating in all types of projects. ◼ phamnews.co.uk/921/43
Fresh air for football club Equipment from National Ventilation has been specified for the Middlezoy Rovers FC clubhouse. The Somerset-based project used a mixture of three fans – Monsoon Zone 1 Silent fans, Monsoon ILF inline centrifugal fans, and Monsoon ACF acoustic inline fan – to provide effective ventilation in the function room, WCs, the kitchen, club room and changing rooms. The new clubhouse replaced an old WW2 building that had previously been used as changing rooms. National Ventilation’s fans have been installed to help
reduce the damp commonly associated with the wet areas in changing rooms, as well as eliminating any stale odours. In addition, the ventilation supplied means that the new function room can accommodate 200+ people to be in the room at one time. “We were happy to offer our free ventilation design service to Middlezoy Rovers FC,” says Christian Rehn, national project and design manager at National Ventilation. “We arranged a site visit before designing the system and providing the design, specification and quotation to ensure the club had the right equipment to meet the ventilation needs of the project.” ◼ phamnews.co.uk/921/44
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