11 December 2008

COAL FIRED PRIMARY SCHOOL CONVERTED USING STOKVIS HEATPAK

A Stokvis Energy Systems pre-assembled plant room packages has been installed at a Welsh primary school to take the place of outdated and extremely inefficient coal fired boilers.

The Heatpak unit for Llandybie County Primary School in Carmarthenshire contains a pair of Stokvis 200 kW Rex dual fuel boilers, currently running on gas, but able to burn oil. The compact boiler room also contains a pressurisation set, an Econoplate plate heat exchanger and a buffer vessel. 

Craned into position on a concrete base as a single unit, the Heatpak was specified by the mechanical and electrical consultancy for the project, Vitec Webber Lenihan Ltd, based in Bridgend. J W & E Morris and Sons Limited was the M&E contractor for the project to whom Stokvis Heat Systems worked as a specialist sub-contractor/package contractor.

The decision to utilise the Heatpak in preference to the lengthy process of refurbishing and fitting out the existing facility not only created a single point of responsibility for the construction and commissioning of the complex plant room, but saved many weeks of work on site. 

David Edwards, the Contracts Manager for J W & E Morris and Sons Limited, comments: “We undertake a lot of projects for councils and education authorities across Wales and we have utilised the Heatpak pre-packaged boiler plants several times in the past.

“Basically they are well suited to the requirements in Carmarthenshire where a lot of the schools are in remote outlying areas. Purchasing a Heatpak offers the flexibility that it is possible to relocate and reuse the boiler room if two or more old schools are consolidated onto a new site.”

At the time of the original inquiry being received by Stokvis, the long term future of Llandybie school was uncertain and the council with the consultants had considered the idea of utilising the Heatpak as a transportable temporary boiler room to supply a variety of properties such as care homes during refurbishment projects. This idea was later shelved and Stokvis then specified the Heatpak so that its output can be increased at a later date to serve more buildings on the site.