Dormitory hot water system upgrade

Boston University from Massachusetts has a satellite campus in London with dormitories that can require heating up to 2000 litres of hot water at a time in as little as 30 minutes to be able to serve 76 showers.

The previous system had become unreliable, was inefficient, and was beginning to cost the university increasing maintenance costs, energy costs, and brand impact from inconsistent creature comforts expected from one of the top universities in the world.

We replaced the entire hot water system with a new storage, heating, and delivery system including water softeners that were reliable, quicker and did all this whilst utilising less energy, thus reducing energy costs and increasing the system’s efficiency.

The Byzantine nature of the ancient plumbing meant we had to dig out old plans to identify the source of some of the system’s deficiencies. This notwithstanding, we were directed to decommission and remove the old system and install the new system during the winter term break. This meant we had one month to complete all the works and that it had to work correctly; nothing else was acceptable.

We were able to completely refit the system, re-plumb into the dormitories and initiate the system controls, tuned to the appropriate schedules and heating levels by the time the students returned for the new term.

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