Television Centre redevelopment gets hot reviews
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November 2, 2017
As work continues to transform the BBC’s iconic Television Centre building in White City into a vast new mixed-use development featuring housing, offices, hotels and leisure facilities, REHAU heating and cooling solutions are being used extensively in many of the new apartments.
REHAU underfloor heating has already been installed in nearly 250 of the apartments by Anders Heating Company, with REHAU’s Rautherm Universal PE-Xa pipework being used for the REHAU tacker system in the apartments.
In many of the corridors REHAU’s innovative CoolBoard chilled ceiling system is also providing the necessary cooling. Replacing conventional plasterboard, the CoolBoard panels feature integrated loops of REHAU’s RAUTHERM 10mm PE-Xa pipe with chilled water circulating to deliver fast responding and environmentally efficient radiant cooling.
The hot and cold domestic plumbing system that runs throughout the corridors was chosen due to the REHAU’s EVERLOC™ jointing technology, which is fast and easy to fix and guarantees no leaks. This was key to the specification; with over 850 million REHAU EVERLOC™ joints already successfully installed worldwide.
Work began on site in May 2016 and the whole redevelopment is scheduled for completion in 2020.
