Once home to the John Brown & Company shipyard, the 80-acre site is being transformed into a mixed-use development of business, leisure, education, healthcare and civic realm.
A large part of the regeneration programme also focuses on the delivery of affordable homes with 146 units created as part of the first of 2 phases within a 23-hectare site along the waterside of the River Clyde.
Delivered by Main Contractor, CCG (Scotland), the one, two, and three-bedroom homes are now managed by Loretto Housing, a member of Wheatley Group, Clydebank HA and West Dunbartonshire Council.
Arc-Tech’s responsibilities for this development were affiliated with the wider energy strategy for Queens Quay which utilises on of the UK’s largest district heating networks to power the new masterplan and wider township in the local area.
The homes, as well as the wider Queens Quay masterplan and the local township, will be powered by this network which is powered by a large-scale, on-site energy centre that uses a Water Source Heat Pump (WSHP) System to extract water from the River Clyde.
Water is then transported via an underground (insulated) pipe network that feeds up through riser pipework that is installed within each common close of the flatted blocks and then connects to a Heat Interface Unit (HIU) for each plot.
Installed by Arc-Tech, this unit then connects to conventional components for heating and hot water services.
In comparison to traditional gas boilers, a district heating system can be significantly more cost-effective to the end-user (tenants) whilst the system itself is environmentally more efficient with over 5000 tonnes of Co2 set to be saved every year by 2040.
Earlier phases of Queens Quay included a health centre and a care home that were each supported by Arc-Tech’s comprehensive range of Mechanical and Electrical services.
Client:
Cube HA, Clydebank HA, West Dunbartonshire Council
Value:
£475k
