Shenley Wood Retirement Village

Project title: Shenley Wood Retirement Village

Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

Value: £88,000

Duration: 18 Months

Project Background

Shenley Wood is a stunning new retirement village with 300 purchase, part-purchase and rental homes within an inspirational community setting that includes over 18 health and leisure facilities, on-site care and a host of social and active opportunities.

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The Project

The Client

Group SCS was contracted by Steane Ltd to design and install a system to control the heating and ventilation in the Foundation Building and main kitchen area.

The Solution

The solution included the supply and installation of sensors to monitor temperature including weather compensating controls in addition to the heating and ventilation systems.

Our Involvement

Group SCS project managed the installation of the integrated solution, offering a bespoke system capable of meeting the client’s needs whilst integrating the passive/smoke/BMS elements and saving on installation time and costs. The system designed, supplied and commissioned includes a 16 zone day to day ventilation system cooling the circulation corridors and the village area using a combination of temperature sensors, automatic opening windows and atrium ventilators along with BMS signalling and a fully addressable control system. As a value added inclusion the smoke ventilation requirements were added to the scope of works, incorporating further smoke shafts, head of stairwell ventilators and cross control of the automatic windows. The control system was manufactured at the Group SCS production facility in Bournemouth, whilst the project was designed, installed and project managed from the Group SCS Birmingham office.

Bespoke system capable of meeting the client’s needs whilst integrating the passive/smoke/BMS elements

The system designed, supplied and commissioned includes a 16 zone day to day ventilation system cooling the circulation corridors and the village area using a combination of temperature sensors, automatic opening windows and atrium ventilators along with BMS signalling and a fully addressable control system

Control system manufactured at the Group SCS Ltd production facility in Bournemouth

Jason Smith, Projects Manager, Steane Ltd

“This was our first time working with Group SCS and we found the team to be very professional, proactive, supportive and knowledgeable in their specialised area of building energy management and window controls for both passive vent and smoke ventilation works. This meant we developed a trusting relationship and Group SCS have been instructed by us on further projects.”