Oventrop supplies mechanical services valves to Southampton City College

(07/05/2010)

Oventrop UK has supplied a significant quantity of its mechanical services valves for three different buildings as part of the £21 million Phase 3 redevelopment of Southampton City College.

The Watts building houses advanced industry standard equipment for the engineering department and is also the home of 3D design crafts and a state-of-the-art lecture theatre. The Hub and Aspire buildings will provide new facilities for media, beauty, hairdressing, hospitality, catering, theatre technology and the performing arts. The Hub is a central meeting building with a theatre and teaching facilities. The Watts building was a complete strip out and refurbishment, whilst the Hub and Aspire buildings are new build and scheduled for completion in September 2010.

Haydon Mechanical & Electrical chose to use Oventrop equipment throughout the three buildings to consolidate to one manufacturer and streamline their purchasing route. They had used Oventrop valves previously and were pleased with their quality, reliability and cost. EDP in Romsey produced the main M&E design to RIBA Stage E which Haydon used as the basis for the design and development

Included in the contract is a new energy centre housing a CHP plant and condensing boilers which serve the complete campus. As well as general boiler and boiler ancillary valves, Oventrop also supplied butterfly and ball isolation valves up to 8-inches diameter. The energy centre produces low temperature hot water which serves radiators, air handling unit circuits, four unit heaters and 12 fan coil units in the Watts building.

Oventrop commissioning sets and differential pressure regulating valves were used to hydronically balance the various circuits and AV6/Combi 4 TRV sets control the radiators in the three buildings of which there is a total of 143. The Oventrop AV6 TRV has a presettable valve insert permitting adjustment of the water flow rates to suit heat demand.
Pope Consulting, Chichester, assisted Haydon with the mechanical services design for this building and the main contractor was Leadbitter.

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