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Retrofit BMS upgrade at Museum in the Park Stroud

Hurtwood ltd used a retrofit solution to upgrade the obsolete Trend IQ3 Building Management System (BMS) at Stroud District Councils Museum In The Park . Located in Stratford park , Stroud, the Museum in the park is housed in a 17th century wool merchants house. The building is grade II listed therefore work requires a …

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Satchwell Sigma BMS Upgrades across Bristol City Council

Hurtwood has upgraded the Satchwell Sigma Building Management Systems (BMS) across several buildings in the Bristol City Council (BCC) estate. Plantrooms were often cramped with little room for replacement panels in these historic buildings thus requiring a retrofitting project. Hurtwood’s innovative upgrade solution for the Satchwell BAS & Sigma BMS mitigated these issues and resulted …

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Building management system service for the University of Bath

Hurtwood ltd carried out a building management system (BMS) service visit on the 3WN cleanrooms at the University of Bath. These cleanrooms have the fibre drawing towers and optical laboratories which are used for manufacturing glass fibre. Students carry out projects on fibre-optics in these laboratories so they experience reasonable footfall. Hurtwood have been helping …

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How can I have a Net Zero Building?

To transform your commercial building or the place you live into a net zero building we firstly need to understand what a net zero building is. What is a Net Zero Building? A true net zero building is a structure that needs little to no additional energy to run in its day to day function. …

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What is a Net Zero Building?

This is a question many people ask but the answer isn’t clearly defined. We will try to shed some light on what a net zero building is. To understand net zero buildings we need to firstly understand the rationale behind net zero. What is net zero? The whole idea behind net zero stems from the …

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Retrofit and upgrade of BMS and BAS – Holdenhurst Road Bournemouth 

The team here at Hurtwood limited did work supporting a major BMS (building management systems) integrator. The Holdenhurst road office block, which in its time has been described as “the wedding cake building” thanks to its iconic tiered structure was in need of a retrofit systems upgrade due to the existing BMS systems increasingly becoming …

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10 Year anniversary of the obsolete Satchwell BAS – tackling obsolescence

10 years on from the first Satrofit cards being installed in Easton Leisure Centre in Bristol, Hurtwood has continued to roll out the Satrofit retrofit solution for the obsolete Satchwell BAS (Building Automation Systems) & Sigma BMS. We recently assisted a major Building Management Systems integrator to upgrade two Sigma 296 outstations. The outstations controlled …

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Improving energy efficiency at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Trust

Here at Hurtwood we have been assisting the University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (UHDNFT) with implementing their chosen Building Management System (BMS) strategy. This work started in 2018 with the production of a strategy for the BMS across the Trust. The Trust was struggling with large amounts of obsolescence with obsolete equipment that could …

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Water Source Heat Pumps at Ebley Mill – Stroud

Hurtwood Ltd have provided new Tridium BMS controls for the new water source heat pumps at Ebley Mill, Gloucestershire. Ebley Mill, originally built in 1873, was refurbished as offices for Stroud District Council in the 1980s. As a result, by 2021, the gas fired boiler plant was ageing. Hurtwood worked for Stroud District Council’s contractor, Cotswold …

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Upgrade of the heating controls at Kingsdown Fort to a Tridium BMS.

The Kingsdown Fort building in North Bristol provides office accommodation for Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health NHS Trust. Hurtwood surveyed the building’s heating controls for the Trust and found an obsolete Satchwell 132 controller. This Satchwell controller had no display or remote access, making adjustment of the heating difficult. Hurtwood replaced the Satchwell controller with …

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