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he Sanibest Pro - a heavy-duty macerator suitable for heavy usage public or commercial environments - from Saniflo UK is helping the residents of Eastbourne provide valuable services
to people in need out of a large, four-storey Art Deco building in the centre of the town. As temporary custodians of the building, the Living Life Eastbourne charity provides a community hub, including an affordable café, which required a new, accessible WC, basin and baby-changing unit. Access to mains drainage would have required digging up a solid concrete floor, creating an expensive, time- consuming inconvenience. The solution was a powerful Sanibest Pro – a robust unit that caters to the demands of public space – installed behind the WC. The pipework runs behind a false wall and goes up and across the ceiling of a corridor behind the newly created bathroom, dropping down into a gravity-fed drainage pipe and drain that connects to a street-level sewer.
Living Life Eastbourne was designated as a warm space during the winter, which helped local residents who couldn’t afford to heat their homes, and it’s also recently been designated as a safe space for the Eastbourne Carnival. It’s a meeting space for community groups and offers a friendly, welcoming space for the homeless and those who live alone. The Sanibest Pro from Saniflo is a heavy-duty macerator suitable for heavy usage public or commercial environments. It can pump up to 7m vertically or 110m horizontally. In the Living Life café in Eastbourne, it combines both; lifting the waste 3m and pumping it across approximately 10m where the waste falls into a soil stack.
www.saniflo.co.uk Steep learning curve for Lochinvar heat pumps E
ight heat pumps provided by Banbury-based manufacturer Lochinvar are helping a leading Further Education college achieve its ambitious sustainability and low carbon goals.
South Devon College in Paignton has a 10-year strategy for “putting sustainability at the heart of what we do and making a decade of change.” This includes transforming its campus to achieve net zero carbon emissions with the help of a major plant room upgrade. The college said this approach was part of its contribution “towards creating a greener, cleaner, net zero economy that provides decent jobs and improves quality of life for all”. Backed by funding from the government’s low carbon Salix finance initiative, which has provided £2.7bn of public funds to support public sector carbon reduction projects, the college was able to upgrade its heating and hot water system and incorporate eight Lochinvar heat pumps providing 1.6 megawatts (MW) of heating for the site.
This involved making significant changes to the existing heating system supplying the campus so it would work with renewable technologies. Lochinvar worked closely with the contractor Mitie Facilities Management of Cardiff and provided extensive advice to help them design and specify the most appropriate system.
Challenges The project team worked through several different options to try and address the challenges created by the geography of the site and its electrical load requirements. To meet the significant heating and hot water requirements of the college, Mitie specified eight air-to- water high temperature Amicus heat pumps supplying two 2,000 litre LBT thermal stores also supplied by Lochinvar. The location of the campus on a very steep hill restricted the space available for such a large heat pump installation and a considerable amount of “creative thinking” was needed to achieve the necessary orientation to make the plant operate successfully.
www.lochinvar.ltd.uk Luceco’s Sigma at the Liver Building L
uceco has recently supplied their Sigma luminaires to the Royal Liver Building. The building overlooks the River Mersey from its waterfront location on the Pier Head and forms one of the ‘Three Graces’ along with the Port of Liverpool Building and the Cunard Building.
CBRE, a global leader in commercial real estate services, has managed the refurbishment of the iconic Grade I Liver Building to create a ‘best in Class’ office and leisure destination. The 8th floor is home to The Bank of New York Mellon who now benefits from a significantly improved, energy efficient lit environment. Tom Francis, Luceco Project Manager said “we worked alongside CorEnergy, part of the SureServe Group, based in Manchester, a renewables specialist in the sustainability and low-carbon sectors. Sigma was selected for this impressive office environment due to its advanced technical performance, a direct / indirect recessed luminaire for low glare applications designed to assist with LG7 compliant settings.” Backlit LED technology and a central Tp(a) microprism optic ensured suitability for this office environment offering UGR 19 compliance and less than 3,000 cdm2 at 65°. Platinum Mini downlighters were also used to light circulation spaces alongside Sigma. A recessed luminaire offering an efficacy up to 117 Llm/cW, Platinum Mini features a unique swing tab design for quick and easy installation. Sigma is engineered to be installed in the traditional lay in method or pulled up to the ceiling using specially designed swing tabs. The luminaire has a range of mounting accessories for solid or
plasterboard ceilings and is also suitable for non-standard ceilings in commercial applications. As well as offering an efficacy of 130 Llm/cW and excellent photometric performance, Sigma delivers over 100,000 hours of maintenance free, operational life. James Burton from CorEnergy, part of the SureServe Group, said “The successful completion of this lighting improvement project at the Liver Building is a great example of CorEnergy working in partnership with Luceco to provide an enhanced lighting solution within a prestigious building. In a time where all businesses are striving for carbon neutrality whilst also facing the impact of rising energy costs, our lighting solution will result in a significant return on investment for the client and deliver ongoing carbon savings.” Opened in 1911 as the headquarters
to the Royal Liver Group, the Royal Liver Building holds historical and cultural importance to the city of Liverpool, including Bertie and Bella, the mythical Liver Birds adorning its towers. The Liver Building was a pioneer of its time, being one of the first buildings in the world to be built using reinforced concrete. Today this iconic structure has been carefully managed by maintaining the building’s Grade I status as well as offering the facilities to service modern commercial users, cost effective, energy efficient lighting being of significant importance to the environmental operations of the building.
www.luceco.com 28 BUILDING SERVICES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER JULY 2023 Read the latest at:
www.bsee.co.uk The heat pumps
are installed in a compound adjacent to the building they supply, and the system is split in half with four units serving one side of the building and four serving the other. Domestic hot water is supplied to three existing cylinders via a plate heat exchanger. South Devon College said it was “committed to continuously improving our sustainability approach, through the promotion of environmental awareness and responsibility, and embedding sustainability principles across the college”. It added that sustainability leads played a key part in its governor and leadership teams “to ensure that this remains a key focus”.
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