Car park ventilation system for council’s new HQ

Project title: One Angel Square

Location: Northampton

Client: Briggs and Forrester

Service: Car Park Ventilation

Project Background

ONE Angel Square, Northampton, known as ‘Project Angel’, is the new purpose-built headquarters of Northampton County Council.

Council staff moved out of 12 buildings across the town, including County Hall, into the new £53million building, which is located on Angel Street in the town centre.

It was officially opened by Communities and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid in October 2017. We completed our work there in June 2017.

Photos © Hazel Nicholson (CC BY 2.0)

The Project

The Client

Group SCS was brought in by Briggs and Forrester Engineering Services in June 2015.

Our Involvement

We were tasked with the design and installation of a car park ventilation system for the ground floor to reduce the build-up of carbon monoxide during busy periods.

Our solution

Group SCS designed and installed a car park ventilation system which would ensure movement of air from one side of the car park to the other to reduce carbon monoxide build-up. We installed induction fans, carbon monoxide detectors, motor control centre and fireman’s override switch.

Designed and installed a car park ventilation system

Installed induction fans, carbon monoxide detectors, motor control centre and fireman’s override switch

Curtis Rees, Project Manager at Group SCS:

“This was a really interesting project to work on and was our first project working with Briggs & Forrester Engineering Services.”