September 2018

CG Systems secured the pipework installation contract on the new Aldi Regional Distribution Centre (RDC) in June 2017. The new £50m RDC has created around 400 new jobs and measures more than 40,000 square foot. Have a look at the below pics for an idea of the scale of the project:

Our scope of work included:

136no Fan coil units on a 4 pipe system
all the LTHW & CHW pipework on this system which was Geberit stainless steel mapress
3no Plant rooms incorporating the 2no Viessmann boilers
2no Beta Echos chillers and 2no Barkell air handling units
Over 500meters of welded gas pipe serving 9no Reznor warm air unit heaters
2no Vaillant air source heat pumps
1no GRP water tank and pumps.

All of the Domestic water services pipework was installed in Geberit Copper Mapress with all the valves on the project manufactured by Crane.

Once again we received fantastic support from our suppliers and the engineers involved in the project proved why they are an invaluable part of our team.

We recently achieved Prime Cost (PC) on this project, which makes it the longest running and largest project we have carried out to date.

If you’d like further information on our involvement in this project, feel free to contact the CG Systems team on info@cgsystems.cc.

The ‘Ruislip project’ is a great example of the lateral thinking that is often required in the type of contract work that the team at CG Systems is recruited to do. In this instance, an existing building on the site in question was to be demolished and all the service pipework for 3 Sanyo Gas Fired Heat Pumps was fixed to this building. Our team was contracted to run three new refrigerant circuits as well as a new natural gas line to feed each unit. Have a look:

The team carried out some very tidy welding on the 4-inch branch that we tied in to the existing 6-inch gas line with the remainder of the natural gas pipework being run in Geberit stainless steel pipework and fittings. The final connection was carried out by hot-tapping the service as this ensured the least amount of down time possible, which was critical on this project due to £27m’s worth of stock in the warehouse (and all the product temperature critical).

The Air Handling Unit served by the GHPs is housed on the first floor of the warehouse, which made running the refrigerant pipework an interesting challenge, but nothing that our capable team couldn’t figure out.

These GHPs are fantastic units as they give customers the option to introduce additional cooling capacity into a property where the electrical capacity has already been utilised for other applications.

If you’d like further information on our involvement in this project, feel free to contact the CG Systems team on info@cgsystems.cc.

Aldi RDC – Isle of Sheppey

AAH Ruislip