Sector: Industrial & Manufacturing
Project Description
Langage Energy Park is a major strategic employment development site in the South West region. This high profile site in terms of location and size offers the flexibility to accommodate a wide range of employment interests
The Langage Energy Park Administration and Support building is a 3-storey 3,800 m² steel frame building for Centrica
Over 1,500m² of offices, kitchen, WC and circulation space; 900m² of storage area; 580m² of workshop space including welding workshops, control and instrumentation workshops, electrical
workshops, machine areas and general workshop space, in addition to plant space, visitors space and reception
We undertook the complete detailed design of the mechanical and electrical services.
“ Administration and Support Buildings to support the £10m Langage Energy”
Project Involvement
Careful design of infrastructure to suit a site with high fault current levels. Co-ordinate and arrange incoming mains electric, gas, water and communications provision for this building and adjacent water treatment building taking into consideration the wider development plans for the site
Zonal controls and metering were included to suit the proposed tenancy of uses of the space
The facade of the building was engineered to model natural ventilation strategies
Lighting controls incorporate daylight dimming and zonal control of lighting incorporating user interfaces together with automatic control systems
Background and local exhaust ventilation was provided in the workshops to meet health and safety requirements including dust extract systems and fume extraction provision
110V power distribution throughout the workshops
All heated areas were provided with local zone controls to enable each occupier to adjust occupancy times
Highly services communications centre with duplicate supplies and conditioning plant with leak detection and gas suppression and full IT distribution throughout
Public address systems throughout in addition to access control, security CCTV, disabled refuge and alarms.
Project Benefits
Active participants in design team meetings and in discussions with regards to sustainability, building regulations, accessibility, BREEAM, value and risk delivered the finally agreed solutions in a clear and coherent manner within a detailed set of design documents for Constructor implementation
Co-ordination of end user workshops requirements to ensure layout.
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