Airedale Mechanical & Electrical

• Olympic Handball Arena, London
• The Edge, Leeds
• Bridlington Spa, Bridlington
• DC Leisure Centre, Rotherham
• Leisure Centre, Driffield
• Middleton Arena, Manchester
• St Mirren Football Stadium, Glasgow

The Edge - University of Leeds

Client:

Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd

Content:

Mechanical & Electrical Services

Value:

£1,700,000

Architect:

S&P Architects (Manchester)

M&E Consultant:

WSP Group (Leeds)

Airedale Mechanical & Electrical carried out full Mechanical, Electrical and Specialist Services design and build on this leisure facility on behalf of Willmott Dixon Construction at the University of Leeds, the main function of the building is to provide a sports, fitness and wellbeing facility for the University campus, which includes indoor sports halls, 25m 8 lane swimming pool, fitness suite with state-of-the-art equipment, squash courts and climbing wall.

The mechanical services provided included heating cooling ventilation domestic water services and drainage. All the primary heating and cooling systems where supplied from the Universities external central energy centre, Airedale Mechanical & Electrical installed new plant rooms for water and heating plate heat exchange units.

Airedale Mechanical & Electrical were responsible for the design and installation of specialist energy metering systems that networked with the University campus system, this consisted of specialist software that enables any authorised user to access detailed "real time" and "historical" energy data from a remote web enabled access, this was of particular importance to the end users as a way of driving down energy usage and therefore carbon emissions.

The electrical systems consisted of lighting small power, mains and sub main distribution throughout, this was achieved by the installation of new rising cable distribution and under-floor bus bar systems, in addition to this Airedale Mechanical & Electrical installed data, fire alarm, access control, DDA systems such as disabled refuge and hearing induction systems.

Airedale Mechanical & Electrical co-ordinated works with specialist design Contractors such as pool water treatment, gymnasium design and catering consultants to achieve a turn-key solution.

CONTRACT PERIOD: 36 WEEKS