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UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD(THE)

Air velocity measurement equipment

Security & DefenceCPV 35125100
Value£8k
Awarded2 Aug 2021
Published12 Jul 2021
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

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£8ktotal contract value
median £210k
this tender£0£17.6m

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The brief

Energy House 2 (EH2) is a large-scale building physics test laboratory to be built at the University of Salford, Manchester.

The project Is part funded by the ERDF.

The construction will begin in summer 2020 with the construction period set to last 12 months.

The project builds on the successful Energy House project :(https://www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/laboratories-and-studios/energy-house ).

A video of the project can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3bsXeQKYU EH2 will be a unique facility and one of most advanced building test facilities on the planet.

It has the following features: • 2 large chambers capable of having 2 family homes built in each one (4 homes in total) • Temperature controlled to within 0.5 °C from -20°C to +40 °C • Wind, rain, solar radiation and snow can be generated • These conditions provide testing facilities for housing covering 95% of the global population.

The Energy House 2 Project has a requirement to measure air velocity in a chamber environment.

This will range from air movement provided by wind machines through to light air movement from the HVAC units providing cooling and heating to the chamber.

Another requirement will be to use air flow inside buildings to inform thermal comfort calculations.

For full tender documentation please go to our InTend portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/salford/aspx/Home

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

2 large chambers capable of having 2

2 large chambers capable of having 2 family homes built in each one (4 homes in total).

02

These conditions provide testing facilities for housing

These conditions provide testing facilities for housing covering 95% of the global population.

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Stage
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UoS/WS/20/21/QTR4/air velocity measurement equipment
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