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Warspite and the Personnel Administration Centre are two of the most recent new buildings to be commissioned at HMS Collingwood,the Royal Navy’s School of Communications and Weapon Engineering,Fareham, Hampshire as part of an ongoing programme of expansion.All the heating,cooling and domestic services valves for the two new buildings are of Oventrop supply.When completed,in 2011,the expansion at Fareham will result in a doubling of the trainee numbers.
EMCOR Drake & Scull,the M&E contractors,chose Oventrop on the basis of their past experience of the equipment’s reliability and the back-up they always receive from the company’s technical staff if and when needed.
Consulting engineers for the Flagship Training Ltd project were Gifford & Partners,Southampton.Flagship Training purchased the buildings for the Naval Recruiting & Training Agency (NRTA).
On the HMS Collingwood site there is a MTHW main which was tapped into to provide plant room hot water supplies for both Warspite and PAC buildings.Heat exchangers are used in each of the plant rooms to reduce the water to LTHW.
For the PAC building there is a storage calorifier and another heat exchanger to feed the radiator heating system.All 85 radiators are fitted with Oventrop AV6 adjustable flow thermostatic radiator valves and lockshield sets and the radiator circuits themselves are dynamically balanced by the use of Hydromat DP differential pressure control valves.The domestic water system in the building is substantial with boosted hot and cold water to serve a large number of toilets and showers.Oventrop valves are used throughout.
Additionally,all the isolating,commissioning and balancing valves are of Oventrop supply.
The Warspite building requires heating and cooling as it contains computer-based naval training facilities.This is achieved from the MTHW/LTHW supply and a chiller in the plant room serving a 40-unit fan coil system.As well as a similar application of Oventrop hydronic balancing valves to the PAC building,each of the fan coil units is fitted with Oventrop Hydromat Q and Hycocon Q flow regulating valves and two port control valves.
