ENGINEERING BETTER BUILDING SERVICES

MITTON GROUP: A BRIEF HISTORY

First established in 1930 by Herbert Mitton, the company achieved prosperous growth in the post war era, becoming a limited company in 1955.

Throughout the remainder of the twentieth century, the Mitton name grew in stature to represent professionalism, quality and innovation in the mechanical services industry. With a nationwide portfolio of blue chip clients, Mitton built a reputation for innovation and attention to detail.

In 2000, a management buy-out saw Mitton embark on a new direction in the company’s history with the establishment of separate but intrinsically linked divisions, which make up the nationwide operation which is the backbone of the Group today.

Across almost a century, the Mitton Group has developed into an established, financially sound company with an underlying philosophy focused on providing high quality products and services worthy of a national brand.

...providing professional and comprehensive mechanical building services solutions for new and existing structures, serving a nationwide client base. Bringing together a unique mix of contracting, aftercare, environmental management and climate control divisions, the Mitton Group partners with clients across the UK, achieving close commercial relationships based on mutual trust and confidence.

Continuing investment in infrastructure, people and skills has placed Mitton in a strong position in the building services industry, offering broad-based expertise to provide responsible and professional solutions.

Underlining this is the company’s commitment to increasing energy efficiency and optimising systems to reduce energy consumption. Mitton works closely with clients to find the drivers most applicable to their businesses, engineering solutions designed to achieve their goals.

By adopting a cohesive, joined-up approach to all aspects of the company’s work, and by providing practical, informed solutions to meet commercial requirements, Mitton is committed to achieving environmentally responsible, cost effective systems contributing to client profitability.

MITTON IS THE NAME BEHIND ONE OF THE UK’S LEADING BUILDING SERVICES GROUPS...

DELIVERING BETTER BUILDING SERVICES SOLUTIONS

Mitton’s dedicated team of professionals manage projects from simple heating and ventilation systems through to complex multi-serviced installations, handling every challenge from individual contracts through to large multi-million pound, multi-site, new build and refurbishment projects.

Mitton has an established track record on all types of installation, with particular expertise in the refurbishment of occupied premises where tight timescales and project completion deadlines are critical.

Successful installations are built on enhanced working relationships across the organisation, bringing together expertise from all divisions to ensure the optimum end result. Mitton’s philosophy is to approach each and every contract as an individual project, achieving an in-depth understanding of how the building is to be utilised in order to make a real contribution to achieving ‘best fit’ for every client.

Every project is managed and controlled by a team of qualified engineers, who oversee all aspects from initial estimating through to completion, commissioning and handover. To maintain optimum levels of continuity, the same individuals continue to look after the building for the first 12 months following completion, during the defects liability period.

Mitton is committed to professionalism and performance at every stage of each project, contributing to the built environment and ensuring that all workmanship is worthy of the company’s quality brand.

AN INNOVATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL APPROACH TO BUILDING SERVICES

Mitton Mechanical Services is the contracting division of the Group, providing the highest quality building services solutions within the built environment.

Mitton is affiliated to B&ES (Building & Engineering Services Association)

Mitton is affiliated to CIBSE (Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers)

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Mitton provides a unique customer-focused service to clients, working in partnership with all project stakeholders.

Mitton employs professionally qualified and skilled individuals, bringing together a unique blend of experience in and understanding of all aspects of building services.

Mitton provides specialist mechanical services packages for production facilities encompassing steam, compressed air, vacuum and gas installations.

Standardisation has enabled Mitton to build a group of trusted core suppliers, installing reliable equipment and supporting installations in terms of knowledge and stock spares.

All systems are developed in compliance with current and pending legislation.

All contracts are designed around efficiency in operation, with the focus on potential lifetime running costs.

Mitton delivers contracts on schedule, to budget and to the highest standards of quality control.

Mitton have installed a low pressure hot water heating system to serve air supply units in the bottling hall, office area air handling units and radiator circuit and a domestic hot water cylinder. A plate and shell heat exchanger providing high heat transfer rates with a high pressure and temperature operating range has been installed to convert high pressure hot water to low pressure hot water.

The company has also supplied and installed air supply units and extract fans to the bottling air plant system, air handling units to serve the office areas and cyclone fans with an extract system for undercroft car park ventilation. The ventilation systems are completed by a loading bay extract system and toilet extract system.

Increases in computer room power consumption, density, and heat generation now require a more efficient approach to computer room air conditioning. For Carlsberg, Mitton have installed specialist CRAC (Computer Room Air Conditioning) units to perform this most critical of IT environment processes. In addition, a VRV (Variable Refrigerant Volume) air conditioning system with sophisticated individual zone control has been installed to supply the office areas, as well as a close control unit for the label store.

A rainwater harvesting system provides recycled water to toilets, with Mitton also installing hot and cold water services to serve wash troughs and drinking fountains in bottling hall , hot and cold water to service new male

and female changing rooms, with all hot water provided via an indirect cylinder fed from the low pressure hot water system

All systems link into a comprehensive Building Monitoring System managed by Mitton, to achieve and maintain optimum levels of performance across the board.

The new Carlsberg production line can fill 60,000 bottles an hour, with beers bottled on the line including Carlsberg, Tuborg and San Miguel.

Working closely with the electrical services team, the project has achieved a post construction BREEAM Excellent rating.

BOTTLING QUALITY AT THE NEW CARLSBERG PLANTA bottling facility opened recently on the Northampton site of one of the world’s biggest brewers includes a suite of systems designed and installed by the Mitton team. The development forms part of a £60M investment at the brewery’s River Nene site, part of the new Northampton Enterprise Zone, and the mechanical package installed by Mitton covers heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and domestic water.

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CARBON EFFICIENT BUILDING MANAGEMENT

The primary function of the Environmental Solutions Division was to utilise the Group’s wealth of knowledge and in-house expertise to implement energy efficient building management control systems - the heart and soul of any building services installation – as an integral part of Mitton Mechanical Services design projects.

This approach has proved the key to providing a cohesive, joined up approach to building services, which is fundamental to Mitton’s stated operational philosophy.

Access to this level of in-house expertise enables Mitton’s mechanical system designers, control system designers and the controls electrical engineers to start an efficiency-focused dialogue at the earliest stages of the design process, maintaining the coordinated approach which is inherent in the Group’s operational principles.

Environmental Solutions also provides the technical facilities and management skills for the on-site commissioning of energy efficient installations.

All work carried out by Environmental Solutions uses SBEM (Simplified Building Energy Model) methodology to ensure consistent and reliable evaluation of energy use in commercial buildings.

Over a decade ago, recognising the vital role that energy efficiency would play in the near future, the Mitton Group adopted an industry-leading stance in the environmental arena with the establishment of a dedicated Environmental Solutions Division.

MANAGING ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN BUILDING SERVICES

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Mitton is affiliated to B&ES (Building & Engineering Services Association)

Mitton is affiliated to CIBSE (Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers)

The response team assumes responsibility for ensuring that the appropriate maintenance personnel are despatched to individual sites to resolve these issues.

Mitton Eye is responsible for monitoring one of the largest building management networks in the country, totalling over 800 sites, supervising a range of systems from simple installations through to business critical plant and equipment.

Statistics demonstrate that continuous plant management achieved through the Mitton Eye Bureau is also successfully driving down energy consumption and use, improving energy efficiency and minimising energy costs.

Mitton Environmental Solutions champions the drive for peak performance; consultative design and installation packages help clients ensure that buildings and integral services installations operate at maximum efficiency to optimise life cycles.

Mitton Environmental Solutions also provides sophisticated monitoring functions for building management control systems, operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year via the Mitton Eye energy bureau, supported by a 24/7 response team to resolve issues encountered.

Mitton’s Environmental Division identified an installation in a large abattoir where this waste heat was not only being rejected to atmosphere, but where expelling this heat to atmosphere required yet more energy to power the ventilation system. The implementation was not straightforward, as the existing compressed air installation had grown organically with the business, featuring a range of compressors with differing capacities and heat outputs. The compressor manufacturers specified and installed a system on each compressor, which diverted hot oil from the usual air heat rejection radiator through an “oil to water” heat exchanger.

Mitton then designed, specified and installed an LPHW system featuring intelligent controls and variable speed / flow pumps to maximise the heat recovery available from each compressor, without over cooling the oil. The combined LPHW from all the compressors is then circulated around a high efficiency plate heat exchanger, which transfers this heat to the domestic hot water system. This slave circuit approach affords an element of protection insisted on by the client so that, in the event of an equipment failure, the risk of cross contamination between the compressors’ oil (which is food safe in any event) and the domestic hot water system is negligible.

After careful commissioning to ensure maximum heat recovery and system balance, the client is recovering nearly 836,000 kWh of heat, which equates to £28,000 per year of natural gas which has been displaced. Heat recovery opportunities exist for a number of industrial processes – contact Mitton to find out how and where you could save.

SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS USING HEAT RECOVERY FROM COMPRESSED AIR Generation of compressed air can be a significant energy expense for businesses, whilst by their very nature air compressors generate large amounts of waste heat.

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LEADING PROVIDERS OF BUILDING MAINTENANCE REGIMES

Mitton Aftercare provides professional service solutions, including routine preventive maintenance and emergency call out facilities, to ensure systems remain reliable and energy-efficient.

To achieve this, the Mitton team looks at the health of the entire site, aiming to identify best-fit solutions for each individual client and making practical, value added contributions to effective site management.

By understanding all the elements of the systems, Mitton’s Aftercare service aims to prolong equipment life and identify areas for performance improvements, minimising emergency situations to achieve optimum cost effectiveness.

With fully staffed offices in Bradford, Northampton, Swindon and Livingston, Mitton has the infrastructure to provide a prompt, locally based response to clients nationwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Mitton’s nationwide network of service centres ensures a fast and professional response. Services include:-

• Planned preventive maintenance• Service repairs• Emergency call-out support• System re-engineering• Legionella (L8) risk assessments

The Mitton Group service is founded upon a stated philosophy to provide total quality solutions for clients, managing all aspects of the building services function; the Mitton Aftercare package plays a fundamental role in completing this package.

MAKING MAINTENANCE WORK

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Mitton is affiliated to B&ES (Building & Engineering Services Association)

Mitton is affiliated to CIBSE (Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers)

Mitton Aftercare employs more than 70 GAS Safe registered service engineers nationwide, as well as highly qualified control engineers, environmental engineers and commissioning engineers.

In-depth knowledge of individual customers’ plant and equipment is an important advantage; Mitton Aftercare engineers look after a full range of sites, from new installations through to plant which may be up to 25 years old.

Mitton Aftercare focuses on prolonging the life of critical equipment, minimising emergency situations and promoting cost effectiveness.

Mitton Aftercare services incorporate a Small Works section to provide fast and efficient management of system repairs and modifications.

All Mitton Aftercare contracts are designed around efficiency in operation, with the focus on optimising potential lifetime running costs.

The two companies enjoy what must be one of the industry’s best established commercial relationships, having worked together on mechanical services projects for over half a century.

Mitton Aftercare now handles maintenance and emergency call-out services across the Morrisons estate, operating from the company’s service centres located in Bradford, Swindon, Northampton and Livingston in Scotland. The remit of the work covers planned maintenance, quoted repairs and call out services, with the majority of sites remotely monitored from Mitton’s Bradford HQ using advanced building management systems.

Formalising the company’s long-term arrangement with Mitton enabled Morrisons to negotiate favourable terms and ensure optimum speed of response for all stores. In addition, Mitton Aftercare plays an important role in enabling the supermarket chain’s strategy for environmental management, which focuses on cutting carbon and preventing waste - key material impact areas for the business.

MORRISONS CHOOSE MITTON AFTERCARE FOR SERVICE AND MAINTENANCESupermarket chain Morrisons selected building services specialists Mitton Aftercare to manage planned maintenance, emergency call out and repair for heating, ventilating and air conditioning facilities throughout the organisation’s network of over 400 stores nationwide.

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ACHIEVING EFFICIENT CLIMATE CONTROL

• Mitton Air Conditioning systems are performance rated and compliant, designed in line with current and future known regulations and carbon reduction targets.

• Mitton has experience in large capacity chilled water systems, blade cooling systems, DX heat pumps, heat recovery projects, and desiccant cooling for electron microscope installations.

• Alongside commercial applications, Mitton Air Conditioning also offers cooling solutions for industrial process projects such as thermocooling of former heads in plastic packaging machinery.

• An essential part of the work carried out by Mitton’s Air Conditioning Division focuses on running costs as well as initial capital installation costs, aiming to give clients the best value engineering for each individual site.

• Mitton Air Conditioning works closely with clients on change management programmes to phase out older refrigerants, replacing these with new technology and environmentally friendly refrigeration gases.

• Mitton Air Conditioning provides comprehensive service packages and documentation in line with current legislation, giving clients the assurance that they remain fully compliant with the latest protocols at all times.

From sophisticated close control conditioning for IT suites through to simple split system units for retail use, Mitton Air Conditioning provides cost effective and efficient solutions.

CREATING THE RIGHT ATMOSPHERE

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Mitton Mechanical Services LtdMackenzie House, 451 Cleckheaton RdLow Moor, Bradford BD12 0HS

Mitton is affiliated to B&ES (Building & Engineering Services Association)

Mitton is affiliated to CIBSE (Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers)

THE FOURTH EMERGENCY SERVICE

Typical situations include:

• Boilerhouse failures: Mitton Small Works first establishes an alternative heat source to maintain acceptable working conditions in the premises until the boilerplant can be restored to full working order. One of Mitton’s purpose-designed portable ‘Heatstores’ is shipped to site, providing temporary connections into the building and reinstating heating facilities to allow the necessary remedial/replacement work to be carried out to the existing plant.

• Plant room fires: Using portable

equipment, tanks and temporary pumping plant rooms and calling on the extensive expertise of the Mitton Group, Mitton Small Works has an established reputation for getting sites functional and operational again in the shortest space of time.

• Flooding: With weather patterns changing and the incidence of flooding on the increase, Mitton’s Small Works team is geared up to respond quickly, using tankers and planned logistics for replenishment to ensure a clean, fresh supply of water until normal operations can be resumed.

Situations sometimes arise which require a fast, tailored response which may fall outside the services provided by Mitton Mechanical Services or Mitton Aftercare. Whether it’s a fully-fledged emergency or planned plant replacement, Mitton’s Small Works service is responsive, professional and cost effective.

QUICK RESPONSE WHEN AND WHERE YOU NEED IT

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Mitton Mechanical Services LtdMackenzie House, 451 Cleckheaton RdLow Moor, Bradford BD12 0HS

Mitton is affiliated to B&ES (Building & Engineering Services Association)

Mitton is affiliated to CIBSE (Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers)

Mitton Head OfficeMitton Mechanical ServicesMackenzie House451 Cleckheaton RoadBradfordBD12 0HS

Mitton South EastUnit 3Monarch CourtSalthouse RoadBrackmillsNorthamptonNN4 7BD

Mitton South WestUnit 11Clearwater Business Park,Frankland Road,Blagrove,Swindon,SN5 8YZ

Mitton Scotland7 Ashwood Court,Oak Bank,Livingston,EH53 0TL

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