Technology

There are almost as many variations in the applications of technology as there are buildings. Some techniques and systems that we have detailed experience of are listed.

• Heat pumps: Ground source, air source, water source.
• Traditional boilers: Gas, oil, solid fuel.
• Chillers: screw, centrifugal, scroll, reciprocating compressors; air-cooled, water-cooled.
• Room emitters: FCUs, radiant panels, embedded coils, displacement ventilation, induction units, chilled beams.
• Passive design: analysis of building thermal mass for peak-lopping; nighttime cooling; stack ventilation.
• Indoor air quality: CO2 monitoring and control; process LEV for dust, fumes, oil mist, welding; specialist ventilation for kitchens, car parks, hazardous environments.
• Process gasses: storing and handling of oxidising, combustible and inert; compressed air.
• Cleanrooms: system and fabric design; pressure regimes.
• Fire suppression: sprinklers, canopy suppression, dry risers, fire hose reels; smoke ventilation.
• Rainwater harvesting: economics of collection and storage; options for re-use of rainwater.
• Swimming pool water treatment.
• Renewable technologies: solar PV, solar thermal, wind, biomass, ground-coupling/labyrinths.
• Building automation: integration of systems, structured management of alarms and maintenance processes.
• LED lighting, lighting controls, addressable lamping.
• HV/LV generation, resilient infrastructure.
• Cat 5 and 6 and wireless data networks.
• Wiring and containment: flexibility versus cost; bus-bars.
• Security: CCTV, access control, intruder detection.
• Fire safety: fire alarms, emergency systems.
• Specialist lighting: external, sports fields, car parks, roadways, theatre.
• Communications systems: staff call, paging, nurse call, single worker alarms, disabled call-points.
• Vertical transport: lifts, escalators, hoists.