Potterton Commercial, part of Baxi Commercial Division, has supplied
five Eurocondense two boilers for a new retirement village in
Birmingham. Developed by the ExtraCare Charitable Trust, in
partnership with Birmingham City Council and other agencies, New
Oscott Retirement Village provides 260 one and two bedroomed
apartments, set in landscaped gardens and grouped around a
comprehensively resourced community centre offering a wealth of
activities and services. Accommodating over 350 residents, the
village offers mixed tenure affordable housing with rented,
part-purchased and fully purchased properties available. Apartments
have been carefully designed, combining traditional style with
modern technology which is intended to support residents’
independence, safety and mobility. Features include low surface
temperature radiators, emergency call systems in rooms, connections
via personal TV to CCTV at entrances and swipe card access to each
property and all areas of the scheme.
The five Eurocondense two 250kW boilers provide space heating for
the whole project with both constant temperature and variable
temperature circuits serving air handling units, fan coil units and
the LST radiator heating system to the apartments. All the boilers
are located in the ground floor boilerhouse and they were selected
and installed by Regal Heating & Plumbing Services. A spokesman
commented, “We selected the boilers after researching the market and
we found them to be very neat and easy to install”. Eurocondense two
boilers are extremely compact, so that they fit through a standard
600mm doorway.
These modular, floor standing, condensing boilers achieve seasonal
energy efficiency of up to 94% gross as well as ultra-low NOx
levels, exceeding Class 5. The Eurocondense two offers pre-mix,
fully modulating control for complete heating flexibility and a
lifetime guarantee on the aluminium/silicon alloy heat exchanger.
The advanced, ISR control features a user-friendly control panel
with full text display of operational status which avoids the
inconvenience of checking codes or lights. Also incorporated is
inbuilt weather compensation, summer/winter changeover and time
control facilities. The ISR controls may be used with a simple room
thermostat or, as in this installation, interface with a fully
integrated Building Energy Management System.
The Village is a partnership between Birmingham City Council, The
ExtraCare Charitable Trust, Midland Heart and the Homes and
Communities Agency, the latter having made a grant of £5m available
for the scheme’s development. The ExtraCare Charitable Trust is
working in partnership with Birmingham City Council to develop a
total of five of these pioneering retirement villages. This £200m
programme is the largest project of its kind in the UK which will
ultimately deliver around 1000 affordable homes and an enriching
lifestyle for older people across the City.
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