A new off-site manufactured CHP boilerhouse is helping Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust to improve energy efficiency. Following a Carbon Trust feasibility study, The Birmingham Women’s Hospital identified that installing CHP would enable the Edgbaston facility to reduce its energy costs and carbon emissions by generating its own electricity.
The boilerhouse was designed off site using 3D computer modelling. Armstrong then constructed and tested it, and delivered it to site. To enable movement by road, the boilerhouse was manufactured in six sections quickly connectable together after delivery. Once the site connections were complete, the CHP unit was delivered, and, within one day, the roof removed from the boilerhouse, the unit craned in, the roof replaced, and the connections made to on-site services. This reduced installation time to two days. Using 3D computer modelling helped get the maximum amount of HVAC equipment into the minimum space, and still allow room for maintenance. Armstrong used a pipeline hanging installation method. The Armstrong 4300 Series vertical inline pumps used are suspended in the pipework rather than anchored to inertia bases on the floor. A second level of equipment could thus be installed above the floor-mounted equipment.
