Plant Energy Systems
Plant Energy Systems
Keywords Energy, Environment,Heating/ventilation, Plant efficiency
Halesowen-based Plant Energy Systems has supplied a packaged plant room to the new £26m Oxford Welcome Break motorway services area, situated at junction 8/8A on the M40.
The contract worth nearly £100,000 was for a plant room to supply heating and hot and cold water for the many facilities on the site, as well as chilled water for the air-conditioning systems. Hot water system components included two boilers,three direct gas-fired water heaters with buffer vessels and circulating pumps. Chilled water buffer vessels and pumps, as well as mains cold water boosting equipment, made up the cold water system. A Monodraught vertical balanced flue was also specified, to provide natural combustion and ventilation air to the sealed container.
The unit serves the shopping, service and catering areas, with seating for 580 customers, as well as a 59-room Welcome Lodge.
Opened in the summer of 1998, the Oxford facility is seen by its owners, Welcome Break, as a radical move away from traditional brick-built motorway services. It has a "planer"structural glazed frontage with a steel structure, constructed in the shape of a wave and blends into the surrounding hill.
One important feature is a unique waste water stabilisation recycling system, comprising five reed beds,which has been praised by the Department of the Environment.
For further information contact: Stuart Hands, Plant Energy Systems, Shenstone Trading Estate,Bromsgrove Road, Halesowen,West Midlands B63 3XB. Tel: 0121 550 5333.
