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Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 January 2008
Birchall supplies 'greens' for biggest
UK building
Leading building services engineering specialist Birchall has fitted out the UK's largest building with the latest energy saving services.
The company designed, developed and installed rainwater harvesting and waste heat recovery technology for Tesco's newly opened 73,000 sq m composite distribution centre at Livingston Birchall, which has offices in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Edinburgh, completed the work as part of a GBP2.5-million contract with Taylor Woodrow Construction
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Relying on an outline mechanical services brief from consulting engineers Charles Samuel Agency, Birchall enabled Tesco to use rainwater collected and stored in two 150-cubic metre purpose-made underground storage tanks as the coolant for its cooling towers that maintain the temperatures within its chilled and freezer warehouse.
The company also enabled Tesco to use rainwater in the automated washing of up to 9,600 plastic food trays per hour by installing two 78-cubic metre vertical storage tanks and coarse and ultra-violet filtration equipment.
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Birchall also helped to save the retailer around GBP17,000 a year in energy costs by installing an energy recuperation system to recover energy from the effluent discharge from the tray washing machines.
It also supplied the centre with an integrated building services energy management system to enable Tesco to monitor and control the network of building services from a human machine interface (HMI) in the facility manager's office.
Peter Denness, production director for Taylor Woodrow Construction, said: "Taylor Woodrow, Birchall and Halsall Electrical have worked successfully together on several Tesco distribution centres, but Tesco Livingston has been the most logistically and technically challenging project to date.
"What is now the UK's largest building was handed over fully operational in under 65 weeks, which is a testament to collaborative teamwork on a massive scale".
Birchall project director Mark Jennings said: "This was one of our most intense and involved projects.
Despite inclement weather and design changes that required staged building warranties, our on-site team (led by Calvin Booth) completed successfully on schedule".
Livingston is the sixth new Tesco composite distribution centre to have been completed by Birchall as a long-term partner, having completed properties at Barlborough, Magor, Lichfield, Crewe and Peterborough and refurbishments at Middleton and Middlewich.
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