We want the factories that produce components for the construction industry to be more like the best factories making consumer goods; highly efficient, controlled and focused on achieving the highest throughput for the lowest cost, without compromising on quality..
In every other facility I know of, extracting at low level is done with ductwork.It's inefficient because you can only put ductwork in certain areas, as people cannot be required to step over it as they move around the space.
Worse, because of the way ductwork is made, the extraction actually takes place about 15cm from the floor, which would allow the cold nitrogen to completely miss the extraction and bleed out into the room..So we designed a trench system, covered with a grille, to surround all the critical areas, and we extract the air from the trench.Any nitrogen is pulled into the trench by the extraction (we’re extracting the air from the whole space through the trench), but also by gravity because it’s heavier than air.
It seems almost obvious, but because it was a groundbreaking MEP design , we did comprehensive testing and modelling to make sure it would work, using computational fluid dynamics (a digital way of predicting how air will move through a building).GSK – quite rightly – have a very strong Health and Safety culture, so the testing threshold was incredibly high.
But the system passed, we installed it and it’s working very well.. Also in Stevenage, we worked with GSK on the lab grade water system.
They had a very large system, which had been put in 20 years ago.GSK – quite rightly – have a very strong Health and Safety culture, so the testing threshold was incredibly high.
But the system passed, we installed it and it’s working very well.. Also in Stevenage, we worked with GSK on the lab grade water system.They had a very large system, which had been put in 20 years ago.
They wanted to analyse how much of its capacity was used and when, and what its overall condition was.We did a full review, which showed that because conditions had changed since it was designed, it was massively oversized, and not fit for purpose anymore.
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