october 2012 Tube ProducTs InTernaTIonal
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water, drainage & underground
Drain Center and Emico dig
deep in Green Park
Work has been completed on a unique
project in Green Park, one of London’s
eight Royal Parks, that involved
dropping pipe to pumps 80m below
ground in order to create an efficient
cooling system.
Drainage and utilities products provider
Drain Center, in conjunction with M&E
sub-contractor Emico and specialist
equipment provider MCA Hire, worked
to drop high density polyethylene pipe
at four sites across the park, which
will be used to convey water for an
environmentally friendly and cost
effective cooling system. The cooling
system works when cold water from the
ground passes over a heat exchange
unit; latent heat is then collected from
the water and returned to the boreholes
from the station.
Work was carried out to strict schedules
in order not to disrupt the Changing
of the Guard ceremony or watching
crowds. Due to the nature of the site
and for safety reasons, the Royal Parks
limited the size of lorry that could make
deliveries to the site and had specified
delivery times.
This meant that shorter lengths of pipe
were required on-site, and specialist
machinery supplied by MCA Hire was
brought in to cut 372 lengths of pipe
in half, with each of the shortened
744 lengths measuring 6m. MCA Hire
also supplied an electrofusion machine,
along with scrapers and other tooling.
To ensure there was no leakage, every
electrofusion weld was tested, and
the team worked to strict deadlines
to complete the work in time for The
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
Simon Gentry, project manager for
Emico, said, “We were very mindful
of the unique location of the works
and knew that we would have to work
around the client’s requirements, which
specifically included that the project
was finished in time for the Diamond
Jubilee – there was no room for error.
Emico always takes responsibility for
the system that it installs and this
project was important to us because we
were involved in the design process and
then worked to deliver a quality, high
spec system to the time scale and
spec specified by our client.”
Terry Sloman, sales support
manager for Drain Center, added,
“This was an unusual project for
Drain Center because it involved
cutting and then feeding pipe
down to a great depth in such
close proximity to Buckingham
Palace. We had to be really
flexible with our deliveries and
the team worked really hard to
get the project finished on time.
It’s a great privilege to be able to
say that we carried out work in a
Royal Park!”
Drain Center has over 80
branches across the UK, stocking
a wide variety of products for both
above- and below-ground applications
and the utilities industry.
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