Watkins Hire Helps Hospital Out Of Hot Spot

Heating and cooling specialist, Watkins Hire, has helped NHS managers keep their cool at the Princess Royal Hospital in south East England after installing a 170kW rental chiller in record time.

The hospital had recently increased the number of operating theatres at its Alan Cummings day surgery unit from four to six and this additional stress on the department's chiller system, combined with the age of the chiller, led to an irreparable breakdown. The hospital's management team immediately began the procurement process for a replacement chiller but needed a quick fix solution as soon as possible so contacted temporary heating and cooling specialists Watkins Hire for help.

Explains Peter Llewellyn from Princess Royal Hospital: “When the chiller broke down we had to take whatever action we could to keep the temperature down in the operating theatres and were able to manage the immediate situation. However, the procurement and delivery time on a new chiller is around 20 weeks and we needed an interim solution that would provide like-for-like cooling power and be up and running immediately.”

Watkins Hire's first step was to carry out a survey on site to determine the most appropriate piece of hire equipment for the job and decide where this should be located. The temporary chiller was delivered to site the same day and installed and commissioned within four hours. Sited outside the building as close as possible to the groundfloor plant room, the temporary chiller was connected to the existing pipework by Watkins Hire’s engineers using flexible pipework to ensure that the temporary chiller provided just the same cooling power as its predecessor.

“In applications like this, it's important to be able to respond quickly,” comments Andy Ellis from Watkin's Hire. “Thanks to the size and range

of our chiller rental fleet and our specialist expertise in temporary heating and cooling we were able to do just that, helping the hospital to ensure that there were no interruptions to normal hospital services.”

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