Solray Radiant Panels from Comyn Ching & Co have been installed in a recently opened £40 million extension to the Royal Preston Hospital, part of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust. The panels are designed to heat the space with optimum efficiency, running on the new building’s low temperature hot water heating circuit.
Innovative heating solution
The project involved the construction of three new buildings to enhance and complement the existing hospital. A three-storey block has been linked to the first floor via a corridor to the main hospital complex and provides patient accommodation for obstetrics, gynaecology and elective orthopaedics. The second building is predominantly single storey block, which is being utilised for elderly rehabilitation, while a third building houses a new two-storey education unit.
Solray panels are installed within the ceiling parameters of all three new buildings, ensuring that every inch of wall and floor space is made available within the hospital. This approach is a much more popular alternative to traditional wall mounted radiators in such a busy, high traffic environment. Radiant Panels have the added advantage for hospitals that they are hygienically superior too. There are no nooks and crannies where dust, dirt or harmful bacteria can accumulate. Each panel offers a smooth, wipe clean surface, making it far easier and cheaper to maintain.