PROJECT: LJJ CAMPBELL CLOSE, CARE HOME, FLEET, HAMPSHIRE

LJJ Contractors Ltd - Mechanical & Electrical Building Services

The project located in Fleet, Hampshire comprised a 74 unit apartment building to BREEAM Very Good. With our expertise in building services design, Low Carbon Consultancy and BREEAM experience we completed the design to the client requirements within the contract budget.

The building comprises 74 single and two bedroom apartments over three levels, with the lower ground containing communal facilities including day room, dining, laundry and reception areas. The whole facility was served through central plant located on the ground floor. The building is essentially timber framed construction with brick and timber cladding and conventional pitched roof with atrium all within its own grounds.

To ensure compliance with BREEAM we had to accommodate a low carbon high efficiency and sustainable design and installation. To supplement the high efficiency central plant which provides heating and hot water a large solar array was included to the south facing roof at high level. To accommodate the solar utilisation thermal stores where included to preheat the water prior to the gas fired units. This ensured full optimisation to the full array and provide maximum performance during 70% of the year across the lifetime of the equipment, additionally the installation was fully metered to measure energy in use.

Due to the timber framed structure of the building we spent a great deal of time allocating resources to ensure the services fitted into the building whilst isolating the apartments in a convenient format, this is typical of our work within the north east and also nationally across the UK.

This project was commissioned by Sentinel Housing Associated to provided 24 hour personal household care facility for the future residents and constructed by Mansell PLC.