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The Gas Safety Trust has reached agreement with OFTEC, the oil firing technical association, and HETAS, the solid fuel domestic heating association, to extend the process used to report domestic CO related gas incidents, to cover those resulting from solid fuel and oil installations as well. The agreement, facilitated by the Gas Safety Trust and Downstream Gas, will lay the foundation upon which authoritative statistics can be reported, collated and analysed for all the main carbon-based fuels.... [more]
People tend to forget about their boilers until the cold kicks in during autumn, but OFTEC wants to inform consumers about the many advantages of getting a registered technician to service a boiler before winter arrives.
As central heating systems all over the country are switched off as the weather finally warms up, OFTEC is encouraging oil users to use the opportunity wisely and have their boilers serviced in the summer months.
Director General of OFTEC, Jeremy Hawksley says, “Summer c... [more]
Altnagelvin is the main hospital for the north west of Northern Ireland serving not only the City of Derry but also County Londonderry. The main building comprises a 10-storey tower block built in the late fifties. The new three storey South Wing, for which Farrans Healthcare is the main contractor, connects to the south face of the tower and a new Pharmacy and Laboratory Services Centre.
Over 300 Oventrop TRVs together with Aquastrom T Plus multifunction domestic hot water secondary circ... [more]
Oventrop UK has supplied a significant quantity of its mechanical services valves for three different buildings as part of the £21 million Phase 3 redevelopment of Southampton City College.
The Watts building houses advanced industry standard equipment for the engineering department and is also the home of 3D design crafts and a state-of-the-art lecture theatre. The Hub and Aspire buildings will provide new facilities for media, beauty, hairdressing, hospitality, catering, theatre technolog... [more]
The New Oscott Retirement Village at Erdington provides 260 one- and two-bedroom apartments surrounding a village centre. This offers health and leisure facilities including a gymnasium, restaurant, craft centre, shops, hair salon, bar and laundrette. There is also an IT suite and a garden with a greenhouse.
All the regulating valves used in the heating systems of the new retirement village in Birmingham are of Oventrop UK supply and were chosen by Regal Building Services, the mechanical se... [more]
A total of more than 50,000 vouchers have already been snapped up under the government’s boiler scrappage scheme, which was launched in January this year, leaving 70,000 vouchers still available. The scheme aims to upgrade 125,000 household heating systems, including oil fired boilers, to increase the efficiency of boilers, cut carbon emissions and save people money on fuel bills.
The scrappage scheme has seen an encouraging response, with the Energy Saving Trust (EST) receiving an average of... [more]
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