Energy saving help from Armstrong


Armstrong can provide engineers with valuable assistance for refurbishment projects.


Following successful completion of the BPMA’s recent PSAT course, Armstrong’s Aftermarket Sales Director, Peter Wolff, is accredited to carry out independent assessments to the standards laid down by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) – the EA-2 – 2009 standard for Energy Assessment of Pumping Systems.


Armstrong has also published a free 8-page energy saving guide which identifies various upgrade options and their paybacks. Scenarios range from simply replacing a belt driven pump


with a close-coupled alternative (requiring no pipe changes and offering a payback period of around three years), right up to replacing the pump with a new high efficiency unit (which requires pipe changes but offers payback periods within two years).


Each detailed scenario suggests the types of existing system for which it might be suitable (naming specific legacy pumps) and explains the necessary pipe changes. Results are clearly stated, with pump curves and other charts, and estimated savings.


The Energy Saving Guide can be downloaded from Armstrong’s website: www.armstrongpumps.com/ 13-2_Energy_brochure.pdf


Bruynzeel provides growth at Royal Botanic Gardens


The new 5,000m2 extension to the


Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s historic Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives, designed by Edward Cullinan Architects, is using Bruynzeel Compactus storage systems to maximise storage capacity for Kew’s priceless collection of plant specimens, archives, books and illustrations.


Kew’s Herbarium is an active research centre and its collection of some 8 million preserved plant and fungal specimens are used by scientists researching plants, fungi and their ecosystems. Kew’s Herbarium has to accommodate the 35,000 - 50,000 new specimens that are brought back or sent to Kew every year by botanists from their expeditions around the world. Linking the climate-controlled archive to the naturally lit research spaces was a key concept for the building so that the scientists could work in close proximity to the collection. The new wing is connected to the existing Herbarium by a timber and glass drum incorporating the stairs and a reading room.


Bruynzeel installed Compactus mobile storage systems in six large rooms within the new extension, with all of the running rails installed in the concrete floor during construction. The system has a positive centre drive that enables multiple units to be moved from one handle, which has pleased archivist Kiri Ross-Jones. A window into one of the rooms allows a view of the artwork and storage facility from the public reading room. A similar


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Bruynzeel system in the rare books room houses the earliest printed book in the collection from 1485, “Ortus Sanitatis” (the Origin of Health).


Collections of information, photographs and a vast range of books and boxes are easily accommodated on Bruynzeel’s mobile shelving sytem in the Archive and Modern Records store. All of the Bruynzeel shelves are height adjustable to accommodate the seven million varying sized records and some of the racks are lockable to restrict access.


Bruynzeel’s Compactus mobile storage was also installed in the three rooms that house the Herbarium specimens. Plant samples are freeze dried for four days at minus 40°C before being boxed, catalogued and placed on the Bruynzeel shelves. With two teams, preparing 400 boxes of


specimens a week, it will take a year to complete the work.


Commenting on the


installation Christopher Mills, Head of Library, Art and Archives said: “The Bruynzeel mobile storage units are


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clean looking. It is great to have a system that is flexible. Making adjustments for the diverse collection of books and illustrations we have is very easy and it is very important to us that there is a guarantee that the shelving will be available for at least the next 10 years.” Bruynzeel’s Compactus range is designed to optimise the storage capacity of any given area. Consisting of double- sided shelving units mounted on carriages that run on floor rails, it compresses the footprint of a storage area by having only one “floating” aisle instead of a series of fixed aisles. Bruynzeel offers individually designed systems for each customer, with Compactus shelving systems available in a range of colours.


Email: enquiries@bruynzeel.co.uk www.bruynzeel.co.uk


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