HVAC Solutions
Case Study: Merseyrail
The Client
Merseyrail is a modern urban rail network of vital importance to the transport infrastructure of Liverpool and Merseyside, increasingly so as the city moves towards its Cultural Capital of Europe status in 2008.
Its fleet of almost 60 fully refurbished electric fibre weight units deliver over 600 train services each day across the region and inevitably requires an ongoing programme of maintenance and repair to ensure it operates to the highest standard of passenger comfort and safety.
This work is all carried out in-house at a single train maintenance depot located at Birkenhead North on the Merseyrail network.
The Challenge
The depot comprises two huge aircraft hangar size sheds where ongoing maintenance and repair to engines, axles and general bodywork is carried out by a team of engineers. A maintenance depot since the 1930’s and with an ageing heating system from the 1970’s, the buildings were in need of a modern heating solution.
The Solution
Initially involved last year in the replacement of the heating system at the first shed, Kimpton was again successful in winning the tender to design, build and install a brand new system to provide sole heating at the second shed.
The installation of all pipework and unit heaters was completed over a four month period, with Kimpton working closely with main contractors, GallifordTry and within the constraints of the depot’s ongoing maintenance and repair work which continued uninterrupted throughout the project.
