Kingspan has recently fitted out Prologis Park, an industrial estate in Coventry, England, with a renewable energy package to facilitate energy efficiency across its 1.5 million sq ft site.

The Irish firm said the decision was taken to install a solar thermal system to boost the energy efficiency of the park and reduce its carbon footprint. A solar thermal collector now generates up to 70% of the park's hot water needs, while a Kingspan Envireau rainwater harvesting system provides all the water for the park's WCs.

Kingspan Environmental was approached by the Park's designated installer, mechanical and electrical contractor P&R Morson of Halesowen, to design bespoke solar thermal and rainwater harvesting systems.

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The company specified two Kingspan Solar Range Tribune 180 litre cyclinders, as well as Thermomax DF 100 vacuum tube direct flow collectors and a Kingspan Water Envireau rainwater harvesting system that supplies water for all WCs in the park.

The pipework was insulated with about 970 metres of Kingspan Tarec Kooltherm pipe insulation by Cilex Insulations Ltd of Staffordshire.

Trevor Cross, Specification Sales Director at Kingspan Environmental, which owns Kingspan Solar and Kingspan Water, said: "The Kingspan integrated approach across the divisions within the company meant we could collectively put together a complete, high performance package of systems for the customer."

Michael Slevin, Senior Contracts Manager at P&R Morson, said: "Even though we had not installed these systems before, the installation was self explanatory and the commissioning and setting up of each of the systems was easy to do which enabled us to demonstrate to the client with minimal fuss.

"We were delighted with both the product and service we received from Kingspan Tarec. Their technical assistance with regards to the BREEAM requirements was extremely useful and we experienced a trouble free installation with the product."

(IT/JP)