Kane wins £9m Battersea plumbing works

Kane Group Building Services has been handed an £8.7m contract by Ardmore to put in a district heating network at the Battersea Power Station residential scheme.The 21-month contract, which has recently started on site, consists of 386 apartments for social housing and shared ownership across seven blocks. A temporary packaged plant room with gas fired boilers will be installed until the connection is ready to go live. The temporary plant room will be prefabricated off-site at Kane’s prefabrication workshop. Works will also include a cold-water storage plantroom, wet and dry riser systems, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) units and space heating within all apartments, served by radiators pipe via a manifold system.Further works include all above-ground foul and rainwater pipework and a domestic cold-water system, served by a single cold-water storage tank and booster sets. Hot water requirements within each dwelling will be generated through the apartment heat interface unit.