Because we manufacture, install and maintain our own products as well as those of other major manufacturers, our specifiers and system design teams can draw upon a depth of knowledge not available to most other contracting organisations. This inbuilt advantage means we are often invited to work as part of the design and build team on major projects.

In the prestigious apartment development by Berkeley Homes at Chelsea Bridge Wharf, we worked with consulting Engineers Wallace Whittle to deliver the high standards of occupant comfort required.With some penthouses valued at a cool £3 million, compromise was not an option. Issues such as background noise from the nearby railway and the need for every apartment to have its own integral air conditioning set the engineers tough challenges.

Our design team customised Toshiba splits to work with 30 metre pipe runs – double the normal operating length – so that lower floor apartments could be served by inconspicuously sited roof-mounted units. Around 300 ducted indoor and associated outdoor units provided 4.5kW of cooling and 5kW of heating for each apartment. The indoor units were just 220mm high, to fit within the available ceiling void, with tempered air delivered to apartments via discreet grilles.

The extraordinary lengths taken by our team to meet this demanding brief drew the following endorsement from the senior engineer on the project, Brian Dickson of Wallace Whittle: “There were plenty of companies who said they could do it, but very few convinced us that they weren't just telling us what we wanted to hear. Denco ran the tests and delivered the results.”

Whatever the design requirements or the scale of your project, it is likely that we can offer you a solution. One of our most challenging exercises to date was the full fit-out of 150 branches of Barclays Bank around London. Other demanding projects include the Wembley Arena where we are providing VRV air conditioning to the main auditorium, and the Docklands Light Railway where Toshiba split air conditioning is being used to service the stations.