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the border between the villages of Shelley and Skelmanthorpe in West Yorkshire. The College’s fundamental beliefs about education are summarised in their mission statement of “Valuing People, Supporting Personal Best”. The College believes this in turn gives students the best chance of being successful in achieving their goals and ambitions. In early 2019 Huddersfield based Andrews


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Mechanical Services deemed the existing open vented calorifiers were to be replaced with 2 No Extreme 500 litre loading cylinders. Installed by well established contractor Greens Mechanical Services Ltd of Brighouse, the stainless steel cylinders are


Shelley College goes extreme with Mikrofill


helley College, (part of the SHARE MultiAcademy Trust) is an upper school and sixth form college on


Advertorial PRODUCT REVIEW OF THE YEAR SPONSORED BY Southam Leisure Centre goes extreme


capable of operating on both open and unvented systems alike and each cylinder can produce in excess of 2,500 l/hr at 60°C. In addition a condensing boilers efficiency is optimised whilst prioritising LPHW to the loading cylinders as the PHE on the Extreme cylinder is designed to operate at a t of 30°C (80/50°C).


The new scheme ensures the loading cylinders


now supply domestic hot water throughout the college’s teaching and kitchen areas. For more information on these and other Mikrofill


products please contact the sales team on 03452 606020 or visit:


www.mikrofill.com Mikrofill at John Black Day Hospital


communities in the West Midlands and beyond. Serving a culturally and sociallydiverse population


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of over a 1.3 million people spread over 172 square miles, it’s one of the largest mental health foundation trusts in the UK and employs a dedicated workforce of around 4,000 staff. In the spring of 2018 work started on the John


Black site turning the present building from an inpatient to an outpatient facility. The existing cast iron atmospheric boilers were replaced with 3No Ethos 110kW wall mounted condensing boilers aswell as a Mikrovent 400 low loss header/air, dirt separator. The stainless steel boilers were installed on free standing frames and provide comfortable space heating throughout the reconfigured wings.


irmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health care to residents of Birmingham, Solihull and to


The building services design was carried out by Waterman Group (B/ham) and installed by Ward Services (Warwickshire). In addition, the new


LPHW system is unvented by way of a pre commissioned Mikrofilll 400 pressurisation package. The Trust also has its own charity, Caring Minds


which directly raises money for the service users, carers and staff of the Trust. For more information on these and other Mikrofill


products, please call the sales team on 03452 606020 or visit:


www.mikrofill.com


school constructed by Jerram Falkus has been built in Hounslow, West London. The second phase of the build will include 284 mixedtenure homes including affordable housing. Building services consultants Baily


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Garner LLP delivered a fully designed M&E project which incorporated Mikrofill equipment. The schools LPHW/HWS demand was met by the selection of 3No Ethos FS 350 kW twin burner condensing boilers. Installed by long standing contractor R & H Building Services Ltd, the stainless steel boilers provide a collective turn down ratio of 60 > 1 (1050 > 17.5 kW), produce as little as 31mg/kw of Nox and can be installed as close as 50mm apart from one another.


Systems. Established mechanical contractor A C Engineers Ltd installed 2


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Extreme 500 litre stainless steel loading cylinders. The indirect hot water generators provide domestic hot water to numerous showers, wash basins and sinks around the Centre. The Extreme is designed to maximise a condensing boilers efficiency by operating at a t of 30°C on the primary side and can produce in excess of 2500 l/hr at 60°C. Supplied with an unvented kit the Extreme can deliver secondary


water at 6 bar and comes complete with a 50 litre potable vessel that accommodates both cylinder expansion and approximately 60 litres of secondary system expansion. For more information on these and other Mikrofill products please


contact the sales team on 03452 606020 or visit: www.mikrofill.com


Mikrofill at Hounslow Town Primary


ith the need for more school places at an alltime high, a brand new five form entry


The domestic hot water demand


throughout this large primary school is catered for by 2 No Wras approved Extreme 500 litre loading cylinders. With a primary input of 120kW at 80°c, each cylinder can produce in excess of 2500 l/hr at 60°c. Installed with unvented kits the cylinders maximise the efficiency of the Ethos boilers by ensuring a t of


30°c on the primary circuit (80/50°C). The existing school continued operation during the


site redevelopment with the new school being occupied in September 2018. For more information on these and other Mikrofill


products please contact the sales team on 03452 606020 or visit:


www.mikrofill.com


ollowing the demise of the existing direct gas fired hot water plant at Southam Leisure Centre, the building has recently benefitted from new HWS generation equipment manufactured by Mikrofill


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increase comfort and reduce energy usage whilst also providing a highly economically solution for today’s changing marketplace. ‘Our core expertise is the mass


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controller as standard; Fast heating mode; DHW pre heat function  saving wasted water; Energy monitor function allows user to monitor energy usage; flue runs up to 30 meters, Rinnai boiler App for android and IOS; constant temperature accurate hot water delivery at continuous flow rates. There is also smart Wifi


controller and App benefits; The Rinnai app seamlessly connects to the controller in the property;


35kW outputs,’ says Chris Goggin, head of Rinnai UK operations. ‘We are not launching into the mass UK


boiler market – that is, in our view, a saturated and oversubscribed market which is in the throes of a major upheaval in its structure due to the advent of online direct sales platforms. We are offering something very different. And we are aiming to serve a market sector previously overlooked and almost ignored  the provision of luxury levels of hot water at affordable sums to the middle and top end of the marketplace.


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the user can control the boiler remotely adjusting temperature, setting weekly and daily programmes, receiving alarm functions, monitor energy usage and set limits. The Wifi and boiler controller also uses GPS from the user’s mobile to bring on the heat when you are getting close to home to ensure the house is warm when you arrive. Rinnai Zen & Zen Plus are available for


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