Lucombe House
Project name: Lucombe House
Client: Devon County Council
Location: County Hall, Exeter
M&E Order Value: £1,100,000.00
Contractor: Kier Construction
Consultant: Hampton Baron Smith
This scheme involved the supply and installation of the new MEP services to Lucombe House, County Hall to fully refurbish the building. As a refurbishment, this brought with it the challenges of installing modern services to a very small congested building which little service void and risers. These included:
- LTHW Heating – New ceiling mounted radiant panels to the offices and radiator to the ancillary areas
- Domestic hot and cold services – Local point of use water heaters
- Natural ventilation – Installation of a mechanically assisted Hybrid Windowmaster ventilation system
- Above ground drainage and sanitaryware installation
- Building Management System – A Trend based control system controlling the heating and monitoring the Windowmaster ventilation system
- LV distribution & small power – underfloor busbar system with floor boxes.
- Lighting and lighting Controls
- Fire & security systems
- Data installation
- CCTV
The Scheme as designed was significantly overbudget over £150k of VE options were presented to enable the scheme to move forward which were incorporated into the design to provide a very similar end user experience
