Circulator Pumps

As the name suggests, circulator pumps are used to move water around a system.

They can be used within a building’s HVAC systems (i.e. chilled water circulation, hot water circulation, potable water circulation). Another important use for these kinds of pumps is to  circulate cooling water in process plant.

Because they only circulate liquid within a closed circuit, they only need to overcome the friction of a piping system and are usually electrically powered centrifugal pumps.

Small to medium sized circulator pumps are usually supported entirely by the pipe flanges that join them to the rest of the system; large pumps are usually pad-mounted.

Bronze circulator pump

Pumps that are used in closed systems can be made with cast iron components as the water in the loop will either become de-oxygenated or be treated with chemicals to inhibit corrosion. Where there is a steady stream of oxygenated, potable water flowing through then more expensive materials such as bronze will be used.

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Axial Flow Pumps

An axial flow pump is a type of centrifugal pump that uses an impeller with vanes to direct the flow axially.

Axial: adj – relating to, forming, or characteristic of an axis, situated in, on, or along an axis

In this way, they differ from most other centrifugal pumps, which direct water flow radially.

Radial: adj – emanating from a common central point; arranged like the radii of a circle; of, like, or relating to a radius or ray; spreading out or developing uniformly on all sides.

In general, axial flow pumps create less pressure (head) than radial flow centrifugal pumps, but they can produce much higher flow rates.

Axial flow movement through a pump

This type of pump usually consists of an impeller with a smaller number of vanes, typically only three or four which are arranged in such a way that the pumped fluid exits axially (i.e. in the same direction as the shaft), rather than radially (90 degrees from the shaft). The impeller is normally driven by an electric motor and the orientation of the vanes produces very low head as the liquid is pumped.

They are useful as circulating water pumps

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Centrifugal Pumps

A pump? Literally “A machine or device for raising, compressing, or transferring fluids”.

Centrifugal pumps are the most common type of pump. A centrifugal pump uses one or more impellers attached to and rotating with the shaft providing the energy that moves liquid through the pump.

This movement also pressurises the liquid to move it through the piping system.

A centrifugal pump works by directing the liquid in the system into the suction port of the centrifugal pump and from there into the inlet of the impeller.

The rotating impeller moves the liquid along the spinning vanes, increasing its velocity energy into the pump volute or diffuser casing.

This is where the high velocity of the fluid is converted into high pressure through a diffusion process to be guided into the outlet port.

From there it is moves into the system, or on to the next stage in the case of a multi-stage centrifugal pump.

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Commitment, confidence and motivation.

Money: People live to earn it; businesses are created to make it and nobody ever has enough of it.

The struggling economy isn’t a new situation that has destroyed the lives of thousands of people and the futures of as many businesses. Those who are lucky enough to still be trading (we count ourselves among those) are probably still trading for lots of reasons, but two key traits that have kept us afloat in recent years spring to mind – confidence and motivation.

These might seem like obscure characteristics to focus on, but here’s why they matter to us:

Without the confidence to move with the changing tides of business, you’re destined to fail. Increasing staff levels, reducing base cost and ensuring quality marketing is the ECEX edge.

Commitment to the job, that extra hour here and there, that’s what sets a business apart from its competitors. We certainly couldn’t do that without motivation. At ECEX, we have a policy that reflects our commitment to the task in hand – Never leave a job until the customer is happy. All of our teams are motivated to get the job right first time, every time. Sometimes, this just isn’t possible and that being said, we’re confident enough to accept when we’ve made a mistake.

It is this philosophy that enables us to gain the trust of our customers so that they can confidently present any ECEX quotation to their client and recommend that we get the job.

Every company is only as good as their last job, which is exactly why we treat every job as if it was our last.

Health and safety first.

Good health and safety planning, practice and execution is paramount within the engineering industry. Even a slight oversight of procedure can have devastating outcomes.

Words however, are one thing and delivery is another. So how do you know that you can trust the company you use?

More importantly, how do you know you can trust ECEX?

Accreditation and certification.

There are several leading health and safety assessment schemes dedicated to high industry standards of competence and compliance. These companies independently evaluate health and safety practice in order to ensure that any applicant maintains a proven track record of good practice.

As certified members of SAFEcontractor, CHAS and the British Safety Council, we have plenty of experience with this. Even so, we always love to hear positive feedback.

John Kinge, Head of Risk at SAFEcontractor said,

“More companies need to understand the importance of adopting good risk management in the way that ECEX has done. The firm’s high standard has set an example, which hopefully will be followed by other companies within the sector”

That’s what we like to hear.

If you’d like a job completed with safety as a priority, get in touch.

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ECEX source your spares. More spare time for you.

Last week we started telling you about our spares service. If you haven’t tried it before, then you could be missing a great opportunity to save money.

OK, so it may be true that we’re not always going to be the cheapest on every item that you want, but there are two major reasons why you should get in touch.

Number One: We’ll always strive to be the most cost effective on the majority of items and consistently working to drive down our prices.

Number Two: We always aim to achieve the most flexible and rapid response to orders and delivery.

As preferred or approved suppliers for the majority of the UK’s largest M&E companies, chances are you’ll have no issues in placing an order with us either.

We understand that complicated supplier frameworks can sometimes restrict your ability to order the product you want. You might know what you want, where to get it from and when you need it, but this means nothing if they aren’t registered suppliers. We’re more than happy to order this for you for a minimal commission fee.

We want to make sure you get what you want, when you want it – Vee belts, belt pulleys (sheaves), filters, mechanical seals and gaskets, electric motors, bearings and a lot more besides.

Not sure whether we can help? Ask us.

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Saving money on your spares is easier than you might think.

With the economy on its knees, the facilities and building maintenance industry is feeling the strain.

Cost saving has become a priority and where possible every effort is being made to shave the pennies from those already tight budgets.That said, engineers will always need to make repairs to serviced plant, replace belts and change bearings.

Unless you’re lucky, nearly all contracts are issued with some element of spare part responsibility and any purchases you make will affect the contract performance and profitability.

So how can you save money?

At ECEX we regularly purchase fans, filters, motors, pumps, mechanical seals etc. and as such, we know where to get spare components at the right price with the quickest delivery.

If you need spares and can’t work out who or where to source them from, contact the ECEX purchasing team to do the job quickly and efficiently for you.

We can supply:

• Vee belts
• Belt pulleys (sheaves)
• Filters
• Mechanical seals and gaskets
• Electric motors
• Bearings

Why waste your time hunting for things when we can do it for you?

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Fire stopping: Which materials do ECEX use?

Recently, we’ve talked a lot about fire stopping and the importance of installing the appropriate products in order to ensure that you and your colleagues are able to work in a safe environment. But what are those products?

We thought we would give a brief explanation of some of the key products that we employ when fire stopping on site:

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Sprayed Mineral Wools: A mixture based upon mineral wool, cement and other binders. This asbestos-free product offers varying fire resistance (Rf) according to the applied thickness on a substrate or carrying structure.

Rigid Vermiculite & Silica Based Boards – Non asbestos board made from mineral wool fibre with inorganic binders. Millboard has good mechanical strength and can be sawn, drilled or moulded when wet to suit particular applications.

Plasterboard: A layer of gypsum sandwiched between two outer layers of lining paper. Additives in the gypsum layer, along with varied weight and strength of the lining paper, give the finished board different resistance and applications.

Flame retardant and intumescent paints: These assist in the control of fire hazards by releasing a flame extinguishing gas.

Ablative or Intumescent Fire Batts: These are manufactured by spraying high-density fibre with a fire rated ablative coating.

Pipe wraps – Consist of flexible high-performance intumescent strips encapsulated in a polythene sleeve. They’re designed to be wrapped around plastic pipes that pass through masonry floors and walls. On exposure to fire the wrap expands rapidly inwards to squeeze the collapsing plastic pipe until the aperture is completely sealed.

Intumescent grilles, door seals and window seals: In the event of a fire, the intumescent material will expand to seal the gaps in under a minute.

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There are just a few of the materials you can employ to better protect your building from fires. Of course, there are many more you could use depending on the application and location.

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We’ve entered the ‘Inspiring Safety Awards 2012’!

Over the past few months, we’ve been working hard to raise the profile of building and workplace safety.

With our blog, https://ecexproblemsolved.wordpress.com we’ve been talking about many important subjects that are close to our hearts here at ECEX.

You may have noticed that fire safety has been a particular focus of ours. This is because of the potentially devastating damage that can be caused if not carefully managed. More specifically, fire stopping provides those within a fire stricken building with one thing – time.

An appropriate safety culture doesn’t have to be expensive, but it does have to be comprehensive. An oversight could cost lives.

Our aim is to raise the profile of good health and safety practice in the UK through sharing our many years of experience and knowledge.

Whether or not we win an Inspiring Safety award this year, we will continue to share a message that we’re proud of.

We’d be grateful if you could spread the message by sharing, liking or commenting on any one of our blog posts. It’ll only take a moment, honest.

Go to http://www.safetyinspirationawards.co.uk/ for more information.

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Sometimes great plans just don’t come together.

No matter how much planning you do, there are some eventualities you just can’t predict.

Take Carnival Corp’s Costa Concordia Cruise ship as an example. Despite the extensive procedures in place to ensure safe practice at all times, a few poor decisions can lead to catastrophic knock-on events.

The same can be said for fire stopping. Fire systems and their associated sensors are essential tools when protecting buildings from potentially disastrous accidents and sometimes, there’s just no accounting for what can happen.

As you may probably already know, smoke and/or heat sensors are placed all over buildings to trigger fire alarm activation, building evacuation and subsequent crisis management. These can be tripped accidentally and human error is undoubtedly the largest contributor. How many times has a sensor been tripped by burnt toast?

We recently completed some work for a major London client at a prestigious blue chip address. The type of work involved required the isolation of smoke headers to allow soldered joints to be fitted. Once the hot works were completed, all isolation was suspended.

Remember the part about eventualities you can’t predict?

Upon testing the pipework, a small leak was discovered which needed further repair. The test had to be completed under pressure and subsequently, water entered a smoke sensor.

Result: The fire alarm system was activated and the building evacuated. In future we will not remove isolation before testing.

Accidents are inevitability in our industry. They key is doing all you can to prevent them and managing them correctly as and when they occur.
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The big “twenty twelve”.

What does this year hold for us all?

Those of us who enjoy watching football will watch as our overpaid soccer stars take another plunge into obscurity during Euro 2012 in June.

The Olympics and Paralympics will undoubtedly hold centre stage in London (and nationally) between July and September.

The Queen will celebrate 60 years on the throne and is still going strong, much to Charles’ dismay. What does that mean for us?

We all get an extra holiday in June.

What else?

ECEX are concentrating upon some key safety issues this year. We’re well known for the quality of our fabricated steelwork structures which allow our customers to overcome major access problems (for more details, go to http://www.ecex.co.uk/a-s.asp).

Having supplied solutions to customers ranging from local leisure centres and smaller outfits to the likes of the Tate Galleries, Wimbledon, Queens Club and the British Museum (to name but a few), we are ideally placed to offer a solution to anything you can throw at us. Yes, that is a challenge.

It has become increasingly apparent that passive fire prevention is an item that is overlooked far too often. It is however, a critical element of the fire safety within a building.

ECEX are happy to survey and offer advice regarding the integrity of your compartmentalisation. (For more details, go to http://www.ecex.co.uk/firestopping.asp)

All you have to do is call.

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Uh Oh…

Due to a few technical issues, the ECEX blog may look a little unusual for the next few days.

Don’t worry, we’re on the case and it will be back to normal as soon as possible.

In the meantime, the full site is still fully operational; why not take a look at some of the other services we offer there. Who knows, we might surprise you!

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We have a winner!

Christmas is over.

New Year celebrations have passed.

Our competition has come to a close.

All entries have now been received and counted and the winner has been drawn, quite literally, from our Managing Director’s hat (Picture a Indiana Jones in an office setting).

Though we didn’t quite reach our target of 50 entrants, we weren’t far off.

The winner is:

Debbs Lancelott

Congratulations!

If you entered and didn’t win this time round, don’t be disheartened. It could be you next time.

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It’s that time of year.

Christmas. Well, nearly.

As the last few days in the run up towards Christmas flutter by, we thought it would be a great time to reflect upon another great, though difficult, year of trading.

We’ve worked on some fantastic sites across the country, ranging from blue chip sites to local offices and offered solutions ranging from fifty pound vee belt orders to six figure projects.

Times are tough and although we’re still winning the same amount of work that we’ve always won; it’s just taking a heck of a long time to get the work signed off from our customers!

This may have affected your business with cost-savings, staff cutbacks and greater expectations placed upon employees. Too often it seems, we’re all asked to achieve more with less money and often with a deadline of yesterday.

As we roll into the New Year, remember that we’re here as a point of contact. Take a look at our full list of services page tab at the top of this page or click here:

https://ecexproblemsolved.wordpress.com/services/.

As we reach the Olympic and Jubliee year of 2012, remember that we’re always here to help.

Merry Christmas.

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Is your building really fire protected?

Most modern buildings are well protected, but still contain a large number of potential risks.

Although measures have been taken to minimise risks (i.e. Smoking ban in buildings), technological advancements (increase in the number of cables for IT and communications equipment) still represent significant fire risks.

Professor Colin Bailey, University of Manchester provides an interesting insight into fire performance and behaviour:

http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures/strucfire/default.htm

Colin discusses structural fire safety and prevention engineering, along with relevant regulatory standards and specifications.

In any instance, the best means of fire protection is to prevent the fire spreading through the building; a process accomplished by completing four preliminary stages: inspection, classification, examination and solution.

Inspection: The process of identifying any zone splits – fire walls, fire curtains etc.
Classification: Establishing the required fire resistance for the area in question.
Examination: Confirmation of any works required in order to maintain this integrity.
Solution: The process by which any issues identified are rectified.

Poorly protected buildings result in devastating damage

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Fire Stopping

Fire stopping. It should be said that as a title, this is a little inaccurate.

Volcanic eruptions and flowing lava streams demonstrate that at certain temperatures fire stopping cannot be achieved.

Passive fire protection is perhaps a more appropriate and accurate statement. In order to prevent the growth of a fire you ensure that no new sources of ignition are reached. By installing fire doors, partitions, ceilings designed with a fire resistance, it is possible to slow the process.

By doing so, you can not only ensure that the occupants of the building are allowed as much time as possible to escape the building, you can isolate the fire into smaller areas to enable the fire services to attack the core.

A fire that can be contained in one place is one that can be controlled for the benefit of the persons in the building.

Key points to consider:

The condition of the fire doors should be regularly inspected, taking into account their hinges, handles, glazing, seals and the basic door.

Walls should be constructed from materials with a minimum fire protection level (usually one hour) and any penetrations should be sealed with intumescent mastic or other fire resistant products. The same is true of ceilings and ceiling voids, transition levels between floors within risers

A routine inspection is likely to identify significant failures in most buildings including yours, although the cost of putting them right is not as high as you might think. During the last four months we have carried out repairs to over 50 individual buildings.

The average customer cost has been less than £1500.00; a small price to pay for precious seconds in an emergency.

If you would like us to carry out an inspection, please get in touch.

Health and safety in the media: The blame game.

It seems that most people knock health and safety for one reason or another.

This post on Channel 4’s News blog was great. The author expands upon health and safety issues reported in the media.

Channel 4 blog

http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-its-health-and-safety-gone-mad/7614

There is one key issue here and believe it or not, it isn’t necessarily personnel safety.

The driving issue is the fear of blame attribution. In other words, once the proverbial finger is pointed, the incident could lead to court action and those responsible being sued or fined.

This can be a costly exercise.

We aren’t so cynical to believe this is the only reason health and safety is important. Sadly though, we live in a country obsessed with blame and punishment.

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How safe is your work environment?

This month we’re looking at simple measures to ensure that you, and the people around you, can work safely and effectively – http://www.ecex.co.uk/a-s.asp
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Health and Safety Solutions: Experience is Everything

Whether you are responsible for one building, or look after many, you will almost certainly have seen some serious issues of access safety on site. They are difficult to resolve safely, particularly if you have not seen them before.

Rest assured.

Whatever the health and safety issue you can be confident that we’ve seen it before. Having dealt with everything from high profile corporate headquarters to local offices, we’ve developed a wide range of experience and we challenge you to surprise us.

You name it, we’ve seen it:

Huge rotating lift machinery with multiple cables that could take your arm off? No problem.

• Electrical HV cabinets at risk of unauthorised access and building power out? Sorted.

• Slate roof to cathedral with walkways in gutter lines? Easy.
• Listed building safety edge protection which must not spoil the eye line? No worries.

• Access to chillers, cooling towers, boiler valves, roof plant? You get the idea.

Why are all of these issues simple for ECEX to resolve?

We’ve seen them many times in the past and will probably see many more.

Experience is the key.

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Friday funny

It’s Friday and well, let’s be honest, perhaps there are some occasions where health and safety does enter the ‘absurd’ category.

Enjoy.

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Health and safety gone mad? We’re not so sure.

Behind every grand hotel or office building, there are hazards and risks that continue to astound us.

Customer-facing business is built upon the requirement to deliver a great appearance and atmosphere in order to impress prospective clients.

Do a little bit of digging behind the scenes and it soon becomes clear that all is often not quite as it seems.

Slippery steps and walkways, missing edge protection, eccentric ‘botch jobs’ and a general lack of consideration for safety are all too common occurrences behind the scenes.

They needn’t be.

There is a certain stigma about health and safety in the UK. The media has dubbed it the “health-and-safety-gone-mad” culture.

You hear about people injured or worse, killed in the workplace. This is where health and safety has failed. Have you heard about the millions of people made safe by the non-slip flooring or roof protection that prevented a slip, trip or fall?

No, because safety doesn’t sell.

The pictures below are actual installations encountered by our surveyors in the last two years.

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Personnel Protection: Are you doing enough?

Offices are safe places to work. Right?

Wrong.

It is a common misconception within the manufacturing and construction sectors that offices are safe places to work.  Let’s be honest, it’s fairly unlikely that you’ll be maimed by a paper cut or blinded by a biro.

As we all know, manufacturing and construction areas contain significantly more hazards than an office environment. However, in these situations safety rules are more rigidly imposed and risk management is just part of the process.

If offices are safe places to work, then why are so many accidents occurring? Simple:

• Trip, slip and fall hazards.
• Chemical storage.
• Unsafe working practices.
• Poor shelf loading.
• Incorrect supervision.
• Poor training.

…the list goes on.

Take this example:

One of our key clients is an M&E contractor based in London. Everyone in that office has received extensive health and safety training and their external sites are among the safest in the industry. They should all know the required procedures…

Really? Take a look at these pictures and judge for yourself.

 

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The end of our first month: Insulation

This is it; the end of the our first month of blogging. The end of a month of insulation related tweets, updates and posts at a time when we’re all thinking about saving energy as temperatures drop for winter.

October 2011 may have been one of the mildest on record, but we’re set for a bitterly cold winter. This month, we’ve insulated over 2,000m of heating pipework in a preemptive strike against the impending cold snap.

It doesn’t take a lot to see the benefits. One single 75mm valve has now been insulated, saving a total of £0.29 per hour of operation.

It may not seem like a lot of money, but when considering there were eight valves and 20m of pipework, adding up to £8.12 per hour of operation saved, the cost-reductions speak for themselves.

Overall, it has been a successful month of insulation.

Yes, we have been working hard.

Yes, we’ve made some money.

Yes, our customers are spending less money on energy at a time when the cost is rising rapidly.

Problem solved.

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Knowledge is valuable. ECEXperience is priceless.

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26 years ago, John Hamilton, Technical Director at ECEX, walked off this roof having completed the installation of new pipework.

Recently, he returned to the same roof alongside two of our fabricators and noticed that the pipework had a slight kink in it.

It is a proud boast of ECEX that we never walk away from a snag or a customer query.

John took a picture of the kink in the pipe which had bent quite substantially. He returned to the ecex offices and it was at this point that we told him not to worry because the owners of the building had changed its shape to match the pipework. ECEX – for experience!

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During October ecex are looking at insulation and how a simple upgrade can improve efficiency greatly. Take a look at http://www.ecex.co.uk/insulation.asp and contact the sales office sales@ecex.co.uk for a free survey.

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Insulation complication: Saving energy doesn’t need to be difficult.

As you may have noticed from our previous posts, October is the month for insulation; it’s something we feel passionately about.

It’s also, however, a subject for which there is a great deal of published information (difficult to understand even when you do know what you’re talking about.

Ultimately, you don’t need a degree in thermal dynamics or metallurgy to understand the basic principal.

You know enough to recognise when water is not maintaining it’s required temperature, or the pipe work is becoming blocked for seemingly no reason at all.

That’s what counts.

Freeze isolation or “plugging” is common practice amongst pipefitters, but on a bitter winter’s morning, the last task you’d like to be lumbered with is thawing out the frozen drinking water supply.

For more detailed information take a look at Insulation Against Frost & Heat Gain – Water Bylaw Requirements (UK Copper Board www.ukcopperboard.co.uk)

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Enhanced Capital Allowances – It pays to insulate!

Unless you’ve had your head in the sand for the last decade, you will have heard about the threat of climate change.

It’s vital that we offset the effects by investing in energy efficiency.

Daunting? Don’t worry, you’re not without support.

Introduced to encourage business investment in the environment, Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECAs) provide advanced tax relief for spending on energy and water efficient equipment.

By implementing products listed on the Energy Technology Product List (ETPL), ECAs provide 100% tax relief on any investment in energy-saving equipment, in the same tax year as the purchase is made. This means a business paying corporation tax at 28% will receive 28p tax relief for every £1 invested in energy-saving products.

If the equipment isn’t on the ETPL, or doesn’t meet the relevant criteria, a company can claim is 20% tax relief, which works out at 5.6p for every £1. So, in effect, an ECA provides a cash-flow boost of 22.4p for every pound invested.

It isn’t all doom and gloom.

Invest in the correct products and aside from the energy-saving payback you’ll get from reduced energy usage, you’ll be gifted money back on your investments.

Win, win.

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During October ecex are looking at insulation and how a simple upgrade can improve efficiency greatly. Take a look at http://www.ecex.co.uk/insulation.asp and contact the sales office sales@ecex.co.uk for a free survey.

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Will businesses stop investing in energy? A new survey suggests they might.

According to a survey by Ernst & Young, four out of five of the UK’s top 250 companies are concerned about their return on investment when improving energy efficiency.

The recent article from H&V News (www.hvnplus.co.uk) noted that only nine per cent of companies have future plans to invest in energy efficient plant and services; shocking considering the financial and environmental benefits associated with the payback.

The majority of respondents involved with the survey believed that energy prices were likely to increase, a factor which would encourage 91 per cent to reduce consumption in a bid to save money.

The biggest concern it seems, is the length of time it would take to achieve a full ROI.

This survey highlighted one key issue – we are a nation of talkers. We want to make a change, if the cost of energy goes up.

Why wait? Stay ahead of the game.

Invest in energy efficiency and prepare yourself for the inevitable price rise.

(for H&V News article, click here)
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The end of another week…

We’ve had a tough, but productive week here at ECEX.

Admit it, this crossed your mind at some point…

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Winter’s coming. Is your insulation up to scratch?

Can you believe it? Record-breaking temperatures have been documented in the UK during October; the hottest in more than 100 years.   It was short lived however and just over one week on, it looks set to change.

Are you prepared for it?

All over the country heating systems are being checked in readiness for the impending winter cold snap.

The Met office has predicted London temperature averages ranging between 4.8⁰C and 2.2⁰C from November to February respectively.

Brr.

We may have all been donning our shorts and tee shirts in late September, but as the temperature drops we will all begin thinking of ways to keep the heat in and the cold out.

The same can be said about your building. The single largest preventable loss of energy is poor insulation. It’s a simple process and provides a quicker payback than you might think!

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During October ecex are looking at insulation and how a simple upgrade can improve efficiency greatly. Take a look at http://www.ecex.co.uk/insulation.asp and contact the sales office sales@ecex.co.uk for a free survey.

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It has never been easier to get in touch with ECEX!

Good news!

We’ve made it easier than ever to arrange a survey with one of our technical specialists.

At ECEX, we understand that when you have a problem you need a solution quickly. In order to get that process under way, you need to get in touch with the right people and you need to do it fast.

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There are now several ways you can let us know what you need:

1) As ever, you can call us on 01635 244 100 or email us at sales@ecex.co.uk

2) You can go to www.ecexproblemsolved.co.uk and submit your information

3) Finally, you can go to the Request a Survey tab at the top of the page.

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Our aim is to make the process of enlisting your next contractor an easy one.

Follow the steps above and we’ll make sure that’s the case.

Look forward to hearing from you!

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Time to Upgrade?

It’s amazing how much you can save with relatively simple upgrades.

OK, so we’re not talking about upgrading your computer, but the caveman makes a good point. Recently, we were asked to provide an analysis of an old pump system and even we were surprised by what we found.

On a 15kw motor, the payback period against capital outlay can be as little as four months!

Fantastic.

Furthermore, by factoring in additional upgrades such as inverters, pressure transducers and the like, we were able to reduce the speed of the motor to directly relate to the system demand. In other words, when we dropped the speed by 20%, a further 50% was saved on the kwH rate.

Even better.

Aside from cost-savings, the new pump system was considerably smaller and easier to maintain. The knock-on effect of this being that the motor could then be reduced in size and provide a similar payback.

With savings like that, why wouldn’t you want to consider an upgrade?

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For more information, take a look at http://www.ecex.co.uk/pumps.asp and contact the sales office sales@ecex.co.uk for a free survey.

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How can you stop wasting energy?

Preventing energy wastage one of our priorities here at ECEX.

Every kilowatt-hour wasted reduces budget that could be better spent elsewhere.

The media is awash with domestic energy saving ideas because as you know, money wasted at home directly affects your pocket.

But how does energy efficiency impact our working lives?

Well, cash wasted on excess energy usage reduces profit, resulting in reduced budget for investment. Without revenue for investment long-term profits will be restricted, resulting in pay freezes and job losses.

There are many ways to reduce energy from the amazingly simple to the mind-bogglingly complex. We’re full of great ideas about how you could save energy in your building, so please get in touch.

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During October ecex are looking at insulation and how a simple upgrade can improve efficiency greatly. Take a look at http://www.ecex.co.uk/insulation.asp and contact the sales office sales@ecex.co.uk for a free survey.

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We are changing.

We are developing.

We are blogging.

…soon.

Please bear with us. Our new and improved blog will be unleashed soon.

Why not take a look at our new and improved website whilst you wait?

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Do keep checking back. It’ll be worth the wait.

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