GK gets a New Look

June 2010

GK Industrial is providing planned preventative maintenance and reactive service to 340 New Look retail stores through working in partneship with Mite, the UK's leading strategic outsourcing and asset management company.

Working since February, GK is helping to improve the quality of New Look's Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems through a planned maintenance procedure designed specifically to prolong the lifespan of HVAC systems. 

To ensure that customers systems are running at their optimum performance levels, GK inspects the air conditioning system in four sections.

- The outdoor unit, or 'air cooled condensing unit'.

- The indoor unit, or 'air handling unit'.

- The interconnecting pipe work and control wiring.

Each section is inspected for obvious faults and

checked to ensure that it is meeting its designed

intention. If the maintenance procedure highlights

any system parts that have failed or may cause

future disruption, GK immediately repairs or quotes

any remedial works required.

The R22 problem

January 2010

R22 is a hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) gas which is used as a refrigerant in refrigeration and air conditioning systems. Sales and use of 'virgin' R22 is banned by law from 1 January 2010.

Until 31 December 2014 temporary use of recycled/recovered R22 is possible but availability is expected to be limited and costs high. Legislation also prohibits companies from stockpiling R22 or recycling it from one customer to another. From 1 January 2015, sales or use of recycled/recovered R22 will be prohibited, however refrigerant wholesalers are already stating they have no supplies of recylcled R22 for onward selling.

Air-conditioning and refrigeration systems installed up to 2003 are likely to use R22 refrigerant. We are able to provide dedicated solutions to this issue.

For further details contact Paul Beattie

See here how GK can help your business with the R22 legislation

Ashfield School

November 2009

GK Industrial has successfully designed, installed, tested and commissioned an integrated HVAC and mechanical energy efficeint building solution into Ashfield School, a specialist technology, vocational, language college and training school set within a self-contained 40 acre rural campus.

Ashfield School had been granted permission to create a state of the art £6million Post 16 New Build Skills Centre. The centre has created one of the most extensive ranges of vocational and educational provisions of any school in Nottinghamshire and the UK.

GK Industrial was bought in as mechanical consultants to provide a specification for the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning system.

Fresh air ventilation for cooling and CO2 removal via ducted heat recovery units was introduced across the entire building, with heating provided via under-floor heating, with energy supplied from ground source heat pumps and the building was given an "A" rating for energy efficiency.

See the Full Case Study here

New offices adds to GK Scotia’s portfolio in Scotland

August 2009

GK Scotia, GK Industrial's Scottish subsidiary company has begun a large multi-scale installation project into a new 10 storey £55m office project in Glasgow.

Located on St. Vincent’s Street, the Aurora office provides 176,899 sq ft of dynamic grade ‘A’ office space in the heart of the City Centre and is the regions largest speculative central office development since the mid nineties. Owned by BMP Paribas, the project is to fully refurbish the offices with air conditioning, heating and ventilation.

The contract exceeds over half a million pounds, a significant coup for GK Scotia that further demonstrates their dominance of the HVAC sector within Scotland.

Jim Gordon, General Manager at GK Scotia comments, ‘In an ever competitive market place, we fought long and hard to win this project and praise must go to our Sales Team for bringing it home and to our contracts team who are having to deliver it timeously whilst the building is still occupied.

As in any major city centre, the logistics of getting the kit to site, craneage to the roof and getting the correct amount of labour all added to the challenge; but it’s these challenges that make you stronger and our flexible workforce ensured that we will deliver the project on time.’