The LEITH
Engine Yard
Bryan Laidlaw
Heating Engineer
The LEITH
Leith
Engine Yard
Formerly the site of the old Edinburgh tram depot and the Shrubhill masonic club, the Engine Yard project was a 4 year re-development. The new works were a modern complex comprising of 5 blocks of flats. The heating is supplied via a district heating system with a central boilerhouse feeding all the buildings. For a large part of the contract I was the only working heating engineer and fitted around 70% of the heating system pipework.
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What I
Worked On
- Fitted the Car park brackets and Mains pipework To Each Blocks Riser
- Fitted The Riser Pipework to Valves on Each Floor
- Ran Copper Mains On Each Floor To All The Flats
- Fitted The Heat Interface Units In The Flats
- Fitted The Underground Uponor Mains To Each Block Of Flats
- System Filling & Testing
A Typical Fitted Heat Interface Unit
What I
Worked On
The Engine Yard was a fair sized project. The pipes were a mixture of 2 1/2 Inch Grooved Victaulic, 2 inch to 1/2 inch screwed steel, 54mm to 15mm crimped copper and 2 inch lagged Uponor.
- Fitted 3 New Boilers With pumps & header
- Fitted 5 Pump Sets To Feed Each Of The 5 Blocks Of Flats
- Tied The Car Park Mains Pipework Into The Corresponding Pump Set
- Fitted Five Tank Rooms With Booster Sets
- System Filling & Testing