With effectiveness and economy as top priorities, the highly efficient system would provide the ideal working environment for vital train maintenance.
The state of the art rail depot is part of a £363 million contract to build the new East London Railway in time for the 2012 Olympic Games. The depot is divided into a series of separate working areas, located across two large buildings. The two-road wheel lathe shed and heavy cleaning building, measuring 90m x 17m, as well as the primary maintenance facility building measuring, 105m x 37m, that also features a main workshop, heavy stores and workshop area and a small parts store.
After a collaborative design and specification process, specialist contractor Emico-Rail installed the comprehensive Nor-Ray-Vac heating system throughout both buildings. The system was specifically chosen for its efficiency, effectiveness and rapid response to changing temperatures.
Radiant tubes use infra red rays like the sun, heating people and objects rather than the space itself. This ensures the maintenance sheds will remain comfortable places to work at all times. With large, constantly open doors, the system also avoids the significant wasted energy associated with heating vast internal spaces suffering from fluctuating temperatures – perfect for contemporary rail sheds.
In the maintenance facility building, 25 x 38LR and 4 x 24LR Nor-Ray-Vac burners were installed in eleven separate zones across the main workshop area and heavy stores and smaller workshop. With the innovative zoning system in place, the operator is able to switch off parts of the radiant system which aren’t needed at a particular time. This offers substantial savings and excellent fuel economy, as well as providing various degrees of comfort across the overall layout of the building.
With essential train maintenance undertaken in the rail sheds, Emico-Rail and AmbiRad had to ensure that the heating system was entirely suitable for the employees, with exclusion zones around each Nor-Ray-Vac burner of utmost importance. As well as this, Emico-Rail had to provide sufficient space between the radiant tube heating and a moveable crane that would be regularly operational within the maintenance shed. By solving these issues with only minor adjustments to plans, Emico-Rail could continue with the installation with minimal disruption caused.
All of the Nor-Ray-Vac burners were supplied with the innovative lock out facility. By connecting this to the site BMS, the system can be monitored remotely for maximum operational efficiency, early detection of any problems and effective use of staff.
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