Honeywell appointed sole controls partner for Salford Heating Installer Partnership

(21/04/2008)

Salford City Council has appointed Honeywell as sole controls partner for its Salford Heating Installer Partnership (SHIP), a major initiative to keep Salford’s most vulnerable residents warm in their homes.

Honeywell will provide wired and wireless heating programmers and thermostats, control valves, radiator thermostats and automatic boiler bypass valves. Council surveyors will choose the optimum high quality, best value Honeywell products to provide high standards of comfort and energy efficiency in each case.

To ensure high quality heating systems are supplied quickly to vulnerable households, SHIP brings together Honeywell specialists, other manufacturers and heating installers with the Council’s Home Improvement Agency and Affordable Warmth Team.

Honeywell will provide wired and wireless heating programmers and thermostats, control valves, thermostatic radiator valves and automatic boiler bypass valves. Council surveyors will determine the optimum controls to be used to provide high standards of comfort and energy efficiency in each installation, choosing from a shortlist of Honeywell products. This choice will depend on whether the home requires a completely new installation or an upgrade to an existing system.

The Salford City Council initiative was launched by its Madam Mayor, Councillor Val Burgoyne, and Councillor Peter Connor, Lead Member for Housing. “The SHIP scheme has received much support and encouragement from installers and manufacturers,” said Councillor Peter Connor, Salford City Council’s lead member for housing. “We believe this type of scheme has the potential to expand and also to be a model for other authorities and Housing associations to follow.”

The launch event was attended by representatives from equipment manufacturers including Honeywell, local suppliers and heating system installers within the eaga network which is responsible to delivering the Government’s flagship fuel poverty scheme, Warm Front.

The Salford Home Improvement Agency and Affordable Warmth Team is now also working closely with the Council’s Landlord Accreditation team towards more energy efficient and comfortable heating systems in private rented properties.

Related categories:  Heating system components   Monitoring and recording equipment   Radiators: panel, convector, towel rails   Residential applications   Valves 

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