Hainault Forest Country Park
Project Overview
The brief for this project was to design and install a heating system to several separate buildings and spaces via a central boiler plantroom with a district type system.
Contractor
Buxton Building Contractors
Project Value
£700,000
Client
LB Redbridge
Project Length
50 Weeks
Sector
Public Building Refurbishment
Project Complete
Jan 2023
Working within a listed building environment
Fast-paced project
In alignment to health and safety procedures
Key Benefits
APS Mechanical helped in creating a welcome and visitors centre for the Hainault Ancient Forest including a café and venue spaces
Our Solution
The key factors that we needed to overcome through design were how to heat the buildings without any electricity, gas or oil for fuel. The next was how to distribute the heating to the separate buildings and type of heat emitters to employ.
We decided upon a biomass boiler and a mini district heating system to link all the buildings.
The project required a courtyard infill from the lower ground to level 01 of the PFI building to create a Day Surgery Unit, comprising of 13 new cabin rooms, a procedure room and associate support.
This project included a variety of mechanical works:
- Heating
- Ventilation Supply & Extract Systems
- Local Exhaust Systems
- Thermal Insulation
- Building Management System (BMS)
- Hot & Cold Water Services
- Public Health Services
