Working with critical services to ensure the gas stays live
29TH APRIL 2025
This hospital specialises in routine non-complex surgery around the Northwest of England.
We were set the challenge of finding a suitable engineering solution to enable a meter exchange at an NHS hospital under very tight timescales.
Scope of works
The site had a legacy medium pressure rotary installation with a twin stream auxiliary controlled Reynolds Bowl along with two additional back up direct acting streams within a building.
The hospital was advised that the metering installation required a new location due to the current location being unsuitable.
Due to the pipework on the customer outlet which travelled through a large complex site to many buildings, an outage was not possible to make the connections.
Delivery
A proposal was put to together and discussed with the customer beforehand to have a live below ground under pressure tee connection fitted to their outlet pipework in-front of the existing metering room which would allow them to keep positive pressure downstream.
To facilitate the works, we needed the approval and legal transfer of a decommissioned district network governor along with its kiosk and concrete base.
With the excellent support of our Siteworks team and service partners, the works commenced to complete the construction of a new concrete base with a new 90mm PE Service installed, new ECV and installation of a 125mm PE pipework outlet pipework to the existing outlet connection via an under-pressure tee connection. The New Twin Stream Direct Acting Itron Metering Module was commissioned and successfully the live gas was transferred over.