Remeha
Quinta Ace condensing boilers have been installed
at a Leicestershire residential care home to provide an efficient,
cost-effective solution to reliable, high-performance heating and hot water
provision.
Stuart
Court, located in Kibworth Beauchamp, is a supported housing scheme providing
29 self-contained apartments for up to 37 residents. With kitchen and bathroom
facilities in each flat, there is a high demand for hot water and heating.
When
the time came to replace the thirty-year-old boiler that had previously
supplied the building, the contract was awarded to Leicester-based mechanical
building services contractor Arthur
Pollard Ltd.
Due
to the nature of the building, ensuring a robust, energy-efficient heating
system was a key priority for Stuart Court’s owners and managers, the Church of
England Pension Board. They chose to install Remeha replacement boilers on the
recommendation of Arthur Pollard, as Technical Engineer Oliver Foster-Pollard
explained:
“We
recommended Remeha boilers due to the reputation of the brand and the proven
reliability of their boilers. Remeha boilers run for ever, in our experience,
making them the most appropriate solution at Stuart Court, both in terms of
initial capital costs and long-term returns.”
A
major consideration was the need to maintain consistently high comfort levels
for the residents by avoiding any disruption to the heating and hot water
supply. To optimise long-term system reliability, Arthur Pollard opted to
replace the single 360kW gas-fired boiler with four Quinta Ace 90 condensing
boilers.
“Splitting
the load across multiple boilers means that even if one boiler should fail,
there will be no interruption to the heating and hot water provision,” said
Oliver. “The design also makes the boilers easier to service and maintain.”
To
minimise disruption during the boiler changeover, the works were scheduled to
take place in the summer when there is typically no demand for space heating.
The
challenge for Arthur Pollard was that the timings unfortunately coincided with
an unseasonably cold spell. The team was also keen to avoid incurring the
additional expense of a temporary immersion heater for hot water supply.
They
therefore decided to install the four Quinta Ace boilers on a cascade system,
prefabricated offsite in their store. The major benefits of using the offsite
fabricated cascade were the huge savings in on-site time and labour. An added
advantage of using this technique was that all the requirements of the project
could be factored in from the outset. This meant that the flues could be
designed offsite from the drawings, speeding up the installation process still
further.
The
result was a rapid installation and changeover, with the team completing the
project in just one week. By the end of the first day, the old boiler had been
removed and the new Remeha boilers brought into the plant room on the offsite
fabricated cascade system. The boilers were bolted into position the following
day and the pipework completed a couple of days later. By the end of the week,
the boilers had been full commissioned.
The
managers of Stuart Court are delighted with the outcome.
With
the Remeha Quinta Ace boilers now fully operational, they are assured of a more
reliable, effective and efficient heating and hot water supply and can
anticipate considerable energy and costs savings moving forward.
The
successor to the Quinta Pro, Remeha’s Quinta Ace wall hung boiler range
combines robust, reliable, high operational performance with superior control
capability to maximise lifetime boiler efficiency. Available in 30, 45, 55, 65,
90, 115, and 160 kW models, this advanced boiler series has been designed to
meet all retrofit and new installation requirements.
