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Wavin Plastics, the UK's leading supplier of water management system, has achieved Local Authority Building Control (LABC) approval for its AquaCell and AquaCell Lite innovative sustainable urban drainage systems.

The AquaCell range comprises of two different types of plastic infiltration modules, differing by their loading capabilities. A series of individual plastic infiltration modules can be clipped together to form an underground structure that can capture and store water. The water is then released at a controlled rate as either a soakaway into the ground or into a public sewer system or watercourse.

AquaCell Lite is Green in colour and specifically designed for non-trafficked applications such as parks, playing fields and domestic gardens. AquaCell is Suitable for installations both up to and exceeding 1.5 metres. Its distinctive Blue colour makes it easy to identify. AquaCell is designed for all configurations and applications, including both shallow and deeper installations and is ideal for all sizes of project including major attenuation schemes.

The LABC is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards in building design and construction and is acknowledged as the UK's leading national building control service.

Denise O'Leary, customer marketing manager at Wavin Plastics, said: “Achieving LABC approval shows just how innovative the AquaCell product range is. As a company we strive to be market leaders. We believe our solution driven approach to water management is setting the example.”

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In summer 2007, Welcome Break approached Caravell (UK) to help specify refrigeration to present their new ranges of healthy snacks and drinks. The image they had in mind was clean, bright and premium with high visibility of product; the “Audi” of refrigeration.

Two months later and after several focus group meetings, an innovative refrigeration island has been installed for trial at Welcome Breaks’s Newport Pagnell site. The island features a polished stainless steel base with glass sides and tops giving maximum product visibility and the impression of space. At its corners the island has contrasting wooden shelves reminiscent of a high Marque car, giving the opportunity to present ambient temperature goods. The under shelf lighting has been chosen at the blue end of the spectrum to give cold, clean, premium associations.

In the first weeks of operation, sandwich sales have increased 23%. Welcome Break has now commissioned the next stage offering other products.

In the retail sector Caravell believes that refrigeration has to be carefully specified to meet its goals. Having a wide range of existing solutions and the ability to rapidly customise and innovate, Caravell (UK) believes it is the first choice refrigeration partner.

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Wavin Plastics is launching the new OSMA Tegra 600 to provide easy installation, inspection and maintenance to non-adoptable domestic and commercial drainage systems.

This innovative non-entry inspection chamber is a much safer and cost-effective alternative to traditional concrete ring manholes during installation and occupation.

Tegra 600 is constructed from strong polypropylene. It is much lighter and easier to handle on site than large concrete manholes, which need to be lifted into place by heavy machinery. The Tegra 600 chamber can be installed by hand and backfilled in a day, typically three times faster than a concrete manhole. The result of this speed and installation is a significant cost saving.

There is less of a health and safety risk with the Tegra 600 access chamber, which can be used to examine buried pipework more than 1.2 metres deep.

Pipe inspection and maintenance can be carried out from above ground, so there is no need for ground workers to enter a potentially hazardous environment to check drainage pipes and clear debris.

The robust Tegra 600 can be used for inspecting and maintaining 150mm, 225mm and 300mm pipes for surface and foul water drainage. It has moveable sockets that allow up to 7.5° pipe movement in any direction. This provides extra flexibility to successfully secure connections to pipe line and level.

Tegra 600 is available with straight, 30°, 90° and cross base configurations. It can connect directly to UltraRib but is also able to connect to Twinwall drainage systems, via an adaptor.

Wavin Plastics' head of marketing Michelle Fleming explains the advantages of the Tegra 600 for underground drainage work: “This is an extremely safe and easy-to-use inspection chamber that significantly reduces the installation costs associated with routine pipe maintenance.

“Using the Tegra 600 means far less risk to personnel, both during installation and service.”

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The Vaisala CARBOCAP® Carbon Dioxide Transmitter GMW115 is a compact wall-mounted transmitter designed for ventilation applications needing CO2 measurements in the range of 0 … 2000 ppm.

The GMW115 incorporates the Vaisala CARBOCAP® Sensor, a silicon based NDIR sensor. It has a stable reference provided by an electrically tunable Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI), where not only the CO2 absorption is measured but also a reference wavelength. This type of a reference is a unique feature in the CO2 transmitters on the HVAC market.

The Vaisala CARBOCAP® Carbon Dioxide Transmitters have been recognized world wide already for 10 years for their excellent stability and reliability in a wide range of applications and field conditions.

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The Yorkshire integral solder ring fitting remains the leading fittings brand within the plumbing and heating industry after more than 70 years. Ever-popular with installers and contractors alike, the benefits of a genuine Yorkshire fitting installation are substantial and extensive.

The principle of the Yorkshire integral solder ring fitting has remained the same since its launch by Yorkshire Fittings Limited in 1934. Manufactured from copper and copper alloy, fittings contain a ring of solder that is released in to the gap between copper tube and fitting when heat is applied, resulting in a totally sound joint without the need to end feed additional solder.

The Yorkshire fitting provides an extensive range of products for use on applications including hot and cold water, central heating, closed circuit heating systems and gas services. General range fittings in sizes from 6mm to 67mm, wedge ring fittings in sizes 76mm and 108mm, heating components, waste fittings, General High Duty fittings, pipe clips and brackets, valves, accessories and chrome plated fittings make up the range.

Such is the strength of the brand that “Yorkshire” has become the generic name for all integral solder ring fittings. However, only users of the genuine of Yorkshire fittings can be confident in their longevity and quality – indeed, they are often capable of outliving the buildings they are installed in. To demonstrate this faith in their proven reliability, genuine Yorkshire fittings come with a 25-year guarantee against manufacturing defects. In addition, fittings are WRAS approved, and are imprinted with a YP (Yorkshire Potable) logo which guarantees that the integral solder ring is lead-free.

Yorkshire fittings can be found in homes across the country, and have been used on prestigious large-scale developments such as The Sage Gateshead. It is this versatility and reliability that has seen the genuine Yorkshire fitting remain a market leader for more than 70 years, and which is likely to see it’s success continue for decades to come.

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Two technical manuals just published by Hanson Building Products are definitive appraisals of aircrete and aggregate blocks for both specifiers and users.

Produced in loose leaf, ringbinder form to enable regular updates to be included, each manual is designed for quick and easy reference.

The Aircrete Blocks Technical Manual is prefaced with key detail on Hanson Thermalite's considerable sustainability and environmental benefits and follows with colour-coded sections on product data, design detailing, performance and sitework.

Individual products within the Thermalite range are afforded separate detailed attention, but perhaps one of the greatest merits for building designers is the degree of information provided on essential elements such as thermal insulation, air permeability, fire protection, sound insulation, moisture penetration and frost resistance. The design detailing section includes full colour sectional drawings showing the use of aircrete blocks in foundations, floors, external and partition walls.

Contractors will value the sitework section, which considers health and safety factors, workability, fixings, internal and external finishes.

Finally, to underline its firm commitment to modern methods of construction, Hanson has devoted a complete chapter to thin joint masonry, showing how it can improve build quality, and offer time and cost savings: data on its use with Thermalite blocks is supported by independent speed trial tests conducted by chartered surveyor Percy Howes.

Following much the same pattern, Hanson's Aggregate Blocks Technical Manual takes an equally close look at the extensive range of facing, paint grade and background blocks, and their role in a wide range of building applications.

To apply for your copy of either the Aggregate Block Technical Manual, or the Thermalite Technical Manual, please contact 08705 258258 or email blocks@hanson.biz.

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The new unit returns significant savings in energy and costs in heating and cooling operations and represents an energy efficient alternative for many traditional applications

The new EWYD-AJYNN heat pump inverter chiller from Daikin Europe NV heralds a new generation of air-to-water heat pumps. Its innovative design, which incorporates an inverter driven single screw compressor, enables it to replace a conventional gas boiler, offering considerable potential savings in annual energy costs in both heating and cooling operations.

During the heating season when the outside temperature decreases, the thermal load requirement of a building increases, although a conventional heat pump’s heating capacity actually decreases as the outside temperature falls. Therefore, a conventional boiler (fossil-fuel fired or electrical) might need to be integrated with the heat pump if the temperature is likely to fall below -1 oC.

The innovative EWYD-AJYNN heat pump chiller however, can fully match the building’s thermal load, even if the ambient temperature falls as low as -12 oC. This is because the inverter boosts the compressor with a frequency increase that exactly follows the required thermal load, resulting in significant energy and cost savings during the heating mode.

Furthermore, the unit also offers benefits during the cooling phase. In summer as the outside ambient temperature increases, so too does a building’s cooling load, creating conditions in which a traditional chiller loses capacity. The inverter in the EWYD-AJYNN however, boosts the compressor frequency rate to match the required cooling load, leading once again, to significant cost savings.

A Daikin Europe product spokesman explains: “the EWYD-AJYNN heat pump inverter unit can vary its compressor speed in response to load conditions by means of its in house programmed PID microprocessor controller. “The unit is extremely energy efficient, both in cooling and heating, with good EER and COP values and is designed and optimised for easy and fast network connection with building automation and management systems.”

The unit uses R-134 — considered the most efficient refrigerant for screw compressors on the market and even at the lowest outside ambient temperature its evaporating pressure remains higher than atmospheric pressure.

Other benefits of the EWYD-AJYNN heat pump Inverter unit include:

• optimum unit power factor
• absence of current surge on unit start up
• lower noise levels during most of the year
• optimized defrosting cycles

This innovative product line is available in a variety of sizes for large, industrial and/or commercial buildings with capacities from 255 to 385 kW in cooling and 274 to 412 kW in heating mode.

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As the oldest and one of the world's largest independent manufacturers of diesel and gas engines, DEUTZ will be featuring a representative selection from their extensive product range on Stand 563, Avenue P in the Site Equipment Zone, at SED 2007 (The National Event For Construction, Rockingham Motor Speedway, Corby, Northants, NN17 5AF, 22/23/24 May 2007).

With more than 140 years' experience in the provision of high quality engines and an overall product range extending from 4kW to 4,000kW, DEUTZ is well established in the construction, quarrying, materials handling and recycling sectors for equipment such as excavators, wheel loaders, access platforms, off highway mobile plant, crushers, screeners, compressors generating sets and lift trucks.

DEUTZ will be showing examples from their world-leading engines range, including the new 2010 Series with power outputs up to 75kW.

With two turbo-charged diesel options, the TD 2010 is an in-line water cooled model and the TCD 2010 is an in-line charge cooled and water cooled engine – both of which are available in two different configurations – with an industrial version suitable for construction equipment and an agricultural machinery version with higher torque outputs.

These new engines will be featured alongside established models such as the TCD 2013 L6 2V, TCD 2015 V8, and a BF4M 1012C Service Exchange engine.

DEUTZ offers compact, space-saving engine platforms to minimise any potential equipment redesign costs and their impressive power to weight ratio and extremely high levels of reliability, combined with long maintenance intervals, provide cost-effective operation even in the most demanding conditions.

Whether mechanically or electronically controlled – air, oil or water cooled – DEUTZ diesel engines are amongst the world leaders from an environmental standpoint. Their low noise and exhaust emissions, together with suitability for bio diesel, alongside their extremely economical fuel consumption, enable users to fully optimise operating costs.

Full sales, service and product support is available through the new centrally located DEUTZ UK head office facility in Cannock, Staffordshire, supported by a dedicated nationwide team of factory trained Service Engineers, equipped with a fleet of mobile workshops, and a network of specialist appointed Parts Distributors.

DEUTZ UK will also be exhibiting on Stand N13 at Hillhead 2007 (The International Quarrying & Recycling Show, Hillhead Quarry, Buxton, Derbyshire, 26-28 June 2007).

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The recently completed £8 million Wildwood Triangle office development, Worcester, is thought to be the area’s largest speculative office development to date. Billed by developer, Maximus, as “the best office address in Worcester”, the visually attractive complex comprises 5 self contained, 2 storey blocks offering between 1,800 and 7,800 ft2 per suite of lettable space. Overall, the development provides 40,000 ft2 of much needed high grade office accommodation in this area of the West Midlands.

Each building is supplied with Daikin VRV heat recovery air conditioning, specified by consultants, Hoare Lea, Five ways, Birmingham and designed in association with Direct Cooling Systems Ltd, Notts, who were also the installers.

Five complete VRV systems linked to 99 Daikin FXSQ concealed ceiling ducted indoor fan coil units with capacities between 2.2kW and 7.1kW (cooling) and 2.5kW to 8.0kW (heating), are mounted in false ceilings throughout the open plan and mixed layout offices. Indoor temperatures are maintained at 220 C +/- 2 deg C throughout the year. All VRV outdoor units are mounted in external compounds. Two independent split FTKS/RKS systems supply cooling only to the communications room in building no 5.

Associated heat reclaim ventilation is provided by 17 Daikin VAM units, which deliver between 5.88 and 25.02 m3/min of tempered fresh air and modulate the temperature and humidity of incoming fresh air in order to match indoor conditions, thereby reducing the cooling and heating loads on the air conditioning system. Each VRV system is controlled by a Daikin Intelligent Controller, housed in the maintenance staff areas and linked to remote room temperature controllers within the office areas.

Commenting on the project, a Hoare Lea spokesman stated “Daikin VRV equipment was selected for this high class office development because it offers considerable energy efficiency and ease of installation combined with a huge product range and control options plus cost competitiveness. Daikin were also selected as a result of their class leading reliability, outstanding support and ability to react to queries and design changes quickly and competently.

“REYQ heat recovery systems were chosen to ensure maximum energy efficiency and customer support levels and their high static pressure availability allowed them to be sited in purpose designed compounds to reduce plant visibility. Similarly, FXSQ concealed ceiling indoor units were ideally suited to this type of project because of their compactness, low operating noise and excellent external static pressure characteristics.”

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