Welcome to the Mechanical Engineering Services Team

The Mechanical Engineering Services Team carry out work such as:

• Supplying and maintaining boilers-big 100’s kW Boilers (not your average domestic boilers), which supply miles, and miles of giant pipes filled with water, for heating, cooling, washing, drinking and cooking. 
• Managing equipment under great pressure, including pumps large enough to pump around 6 storeys high, that circulate around 29 buildings, sometimes pumping away waste and sewage.
• Regulating Air Compressors; for the insulation, energy conservancy, and management of systems within Buildings. This works by bringing in fresh air, extracting stale, and filtering air into the buildings.
• Designing systems, producing drawings for tenders, assessing contractors, managing, and coordinating them on site.
• Attending meetings for New Buildings, discussing with stakeholders the designs, and advising best practice, attendance onsite during construction, assessing the quality of build works.
• Maintaining statutory compliance, maintaining all those systems with contractors and the university in house team.
• Surveying assets and replacing equipment as required.

The Mechanical Engineering Services Team are based in the Atkinson Holt Building between the hours of 8.00AM-16.00PM Monday to Friday.

There is an emergency on call service for essential works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Did you know?

• The Mechanical Services team have thermal and CO2 sensors in many of the University's buildings that automatically adjust the heating or cooling to the correct temperature.
• There are multiple BeMS systems over campus which programme the heating and cooling temperatures to reduce energy usage.
• Multiple pieces of mechanical kit have been replaced and installed to run much more efficiently at a lower power consumption, which greatly saves on energy costs.
• Ventilation within the campus is provided by a variety of means, mainly by mechanical systems using fans, and natural ventilation using opening windows. The Mechanical team maintain the Air Handling Unit systems throughout the site along with contractors by the cleaning of the Air Handling Units, and the changing of filters, and carrying out efficiency checks. This addresses the three key elements of sustainability by betterment of the environment, the social scene, and economic landscape of the University.