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The UK has recently been overwhelmed by the heatwave that has hit the country. With temperatures reaching as high as 3 6°C, the demand for air conditioning and cold room repairs soared according to refrigeration experts, Synecore.


The m&e contractor reported that e mergency call outs for broken or under-performing air conditioning u nits and walk-in chillers were up by 92% last week. The busiest day was Thursday, which followed the hottest day in June in over 40 years.


The demand was almost equally split between companies that have air conditioning installed and restaurant owners with walk-in chillers.


Synecore’s air conditioning


service department handled the situation extremely professionally and managed to accommodate all its ents, as well


maintenance contract clients, as well well


Even with this unpre as new customers.


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number of emergency air conditionin g and refrigeration calls, Synecore was true to its promise and an engineer was onsite within 48 hours.


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Gary Piper, Synecore’s HVAC manager s aid: “The heatwave caused numerous problems for businesses throughout the country. Restaurants were experiencing overheated walk-in chillers and businesses were finding their air conditioning systems were s imply not working correctly.


“Our team of service controllers


and engineers were outstanding. They excelled under pressure and managed to prioritise accordingly. It was vital w e dealt with the calls for walk-in c hillers initially, as the restaurants’ s tock could be at risk. The problems with the walk-in chillers were mostly down to overheating. We have a mobile cold room trailer that can be hired if a lengthy repair time is tunately, we rectifie iftly and pre


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how important it is to keep their air ained,


conditioning regularly maintained, afety reasons and to extend


ng regularly maintained to keep their air


b oth for safety reasons and to extend the lifetime of the system. However, when meeting new clients, it always surprises us how many businesses, hotels and restaurants are not aware o f their legal obligation when it comes to maintaining F-Gas records a nd TM44 certificates. That’s why we make it our mission to educate businesses and the operator through


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refrigeration services, including throughout the UK to provide Synecore works with businesses training.”


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performing or broken air conditioning meant our engineers were in high demand. The root of the problem was mainly to do with under-maintained systems, or the fact that the air conditioning was turned on for the first time in a while and kept on for longer.


Maintenance (PPM) service for air conditioning and refrigeration systems has specifically been


developed to ensure businesses have peace of mind that their system is fit-for-purpose all year round.


Building services contractor JS Wright has secured Heat Network Consultant status.


Four engineers from the mechanical and electrical design and


“We always stress to our customers rtant it is to kee


ways str ys stress to our customers


build specialist, which has offices in Birmingham, Bristol and London, have received the accreditation from the Chartered Institution of Building Serv


vices Engineers (CIBSE). They all passed a stringent examination on the CIBSE Heat Networks: Code of Practice for the UK, jointly developed by CIBSE and the Association for Decentralised E nergy (ADE) as a major component in the nation’s future energy strategy. Associate design director David Cook, associate contracts director M att Coy, design manager Dave Bradbury, and senior design engineer Thomas Hollywood, proved to the assessors that JS Wright has the skills to meet the Code’s high standards for the design, installation and commissioning of district heating networks.


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Association for Decentralised ergy (ADE) as a major c he nation’s fu Associ


sed major component n’s future energy strategy. Coo


The Code of Practice aims to ensure that all district heating


systems – those in which low carbon heat for developments comes from combined heat and power plants or recovered waste heat – are delivered in a low cost and secure way in order to reduce carbon emissions, fossil fuel dependence and fuel poverty.


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