Contract awarded for British Museum power centre

The British Museum power centre programme, a part of a much wider modernisation being led by means of Sir Robert McAlpine, is designed to making improvements to the potency and resilience of its power infrastructure, phasing out its reliance on fossil fuels.

As important contractor for the power centre, Dalkia will oversee all works inside the museum property, together with civil engineering, architectural fit-outs and an entire overhaul of the prevailing infrastructure.

Dalkia will ship the overall mechanical, electric and plumbing (MEP) bundle for the bottom construct of the Power Centre, supporting Sir Robert McAlpine, offering a facility designed to ship low-carbon power.

The scheme will exchange the museum’s gas-fired boiler plant with a device combining a 5.1MW air-source warmth pump, a 7MW water-source warmth pump and a 900kW electric boiler for back-up. Those upgrades are anticipated to scale back carbon emissions by means of 1,700 tonnes a 12 months.

The programme additionally contains electric infrastructure improvements, together with a brand new high-voltage ring primary, low-temperature scorching water number one products and services, rewiring of sub-mains and the relocation of the excessive voltage (HV) consumption substation.

British Museum managing director Judith McNicol mentioned: “Modernising our power infrastructure is very important to remodeling the museum, lowering our environmental have an effect on and making sure we will be able to proceed to maintain the gathering for generations to return. Dalkia’s experience in handing over complicated, low-carbon power answers provides us self assurance that this programme will fortify the resilience and sustainability of our property for many years forward.”

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