Commissioning Solutions for the Building Services Sector of the Construction Industry.

Our Commissioning Projects

With our unwavering dedication and proactive approach, we guarantee that your building will be finished to the highest standards and that all protocols and procedures will be meticulously adhered to. Take a look at our gallery to witness our vast expertise in providing commissioning services.

Current Projects

Victoria House

Bloomsbury, London

Client: SES Engineering Services Ltd
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management, Water Treatment, TAB Commissioning
Project Duration: September 2023 – Present

One Hotel

Nine Elms, London

Client: Designer Group
Type of Contract: Hands on TAB Commissioning
Project Duration: September 2023 – Present

Maidstone Barn Theatres

Maidstone Hospital

Client: SES Engineering Services Ltd
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management, Water Treatment, TAB Commissioning
Project Duration: August 2023 – Present

Excel Phase 3

London

Client: SES Engineering Services Ltd
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
Project Duration: June 2023 – Present

Friary Park, Acton / Silk district / Water Meadow Court / St John’s Hill

Whitechapel, London

Client: Mount Anvil
Type of Contract: District Heating Consultancy
Project duration: June 2021 – Present

Prime Environmental Services have been appointed by Mount Anvil to provide District Heating Network Consultancy.  As with many residential developments, phased handovers can become troublesome if not accurately planned, our attention to detail for the systems in their entirety has assisted with the smooth handover of many of the blocks via temporary plant or integration to existing services. Our robust witnessing presence has ensured the correct processes have been carried out for each associated services to their relevant standards and guidance’s. This bespoke scope of works has been very well received by our client for all elements of; pre commission cleaning, commissioning, BMS control, metering and phased integration. 

Past Projects

Springfield University Hospital

Tooting, South London

Client: SES Engineering Services ltd
Type of Contract: Hands on Ventilation/Water Commissioning
Project Duration: December 2022 – September 2023

Prime Environmental Services have been appointed by SES to undertake the ‘Hands on’ Air and Water Commissioning of both Forensic and non-Forensic buildings. The project comprises of various services our expert team are responsible to set to work such as: LTHW closed circuits, AHUs, EFs, Smoke Extracts, VRF Secondary air, TMVs.

Hardwick House

Euston, London

Client: ASM Engineering
Type of Contact: Hands on Ventilation Commissioning
Project Duration: March – April 2023

Prime Environmental Services have been appointed by ASM Engineering to provide hands on ventilation commissioning of their Hardwick House scheme. This project comprises of HRUs, EF, SF and AC units.

JJ Mack Building

33 Charterhouse Street, London

Client: SES Engineering Services ltd
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management & Hands on Ventilation/Water Commissioning
Project Duration: December 2021 – October 2022

The first project of its kind for Prime. PESL were appointed by SES Engineering Services to provide M&E Commissioning Management AND Hands on Air/Water commissioning. This 10 Story Smart Building commercial office space comprised both shell and Core + Cat A fit-out of all services. Our success on this project has set the standard for future schemes, works were meticulously managed and executed to a very high standard resulting in the project being delivered by the client set PC date. This sustainable building has been awarded BREEAM Outstanding, NABRS 5 Stars & EPC A. 

Key M&E Services on the project:

  • BMS
  • CNS
  • Fire Alarm
  • Security Systems
  • Sprinkler systems
  • LTHW District Heating Network (integration to Citigen DHN)
  • CHW District Cooling Network (integration to Citigen DCN)
  • Supply & Extract AHUs, Smoke Extract, TEFs, VAVs, FCUs
  • Domestic Water / Domestic Hot Water Services 
  • Rainwater Harvesting
  • MSFD system
  • PLC system
  • ATS
  • C&E / IST

Cleveland Clinic

33 Grosvenor Place, London

Client: SES Engineering Services ltd
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management 
Project Duration: March 2020 – January 2022

The Cleveland Clinic project is a new build located in Grosvenor Place, London that provides premium private healthcare for the area. SES Completed the mechanical, public health and building management systems as contracted.

Prime were appointed to provide commissioning management for the SES project team providing key skills such as; programme updates, troubleshooting expertise, progress tracking, thorough documentation and RAMS reviews, meeting attendance, pre-client witnessing and general quality assurance checks. 

Key mechanical services on the project are; 

  • LTHW & Steam Boilers
  • Chillers 
  • DX systems 
  • Domestic Water Services and RO plant 
  • 36 Air Handling Units
  • Smoke Extract 
  • Advanced air system compromising of 900+ MSFDs 
  • BMS 

Royal London Hospital

Whitechapel, London

Client: SES Engineering Services ltd
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management 
Project Duration: March – April 2020

Prime were appointed by SES Engineering Services to carry out the Commissioning Management of Royal London Hospital, a 2 floor M&E fit out for potential COVID-19 patients. The project had a 5 week turnaround due to the circumstances and was completed, on time, to a very high standard conforming to HTM compliances. Prime had 3 operatives based at the project working a mixture of days and nights, 7 days a week to ensure the commissioning process was correctly sequenced and managed.  An ‘all hands on deck’ approach was the attitude adopted by everyone involved and it was a valiant effort to get the project handed over on time. Prime’s involvement on the project was from start to finish, assisting with commissioning and water treatment methodology (which had to be carefully managed so not to effect live hospital wards across other floors), RAMS review, assisting the teams on site with any issues encountered, daily commissioning meetings were held to discuss progress and plan the commissioning activities.

Prime were also tasked with witnessing all elements of electrical and mechanical commissioning and creating the index and sign off sheets for all commissioning documentation which fed directly into the O&Ms. Prime were the point of contact for the Trust’s representatives who were based on site and tasked to validate and sign off the building services on behalf of the NHS. This partnership was fluid with both parties adopting the same positive attitude to not hinder the project but have the best possible standard of works completed.    

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M&E Services on the project as follows;

  • Fire Alarm
  • Access control
  • Small power and lighting (lighting control and emergency lighting)
  • Ductwork Cleanliness
  • Ventilation commissioning including smoke extract
  • Water Treatment and balancing
  • Chlorination and tap temperature verification
  • Medical Gas
  • DX systems
  • Nurse call points
  • BMS
  • Public health
  • Cause and Effect                              

Bart’s Square Phases 1 & 3

London EC1

Client: SES Egineering Services ltd / McLaren / Carillion 
Architect: Sheppard Robson
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
M&E Consultants: SWECO
Project Duration: March 2016 – March 2020

Prime ES were appointed as Commissioning Managers to Main Contractor at Phase 1 and SES Engineering Services for Phase 3 of this prestigious development. 

Bart’s Square is a residential development within the City of London consisting of 235 (Ph1-144 & Ph3-91) luxury apartments plus retail space and landlords shell & core infrastructure. A resident’s amenity area is included with a screening room for 20 people, a bar/lounge and a private dining/meeting room. There is provision for car parking and bicycle storage at lower ground level.

Phase 1 & 3 is provided with District Heating & Cooling to 6x Plate Heat Exchangers which is circulated to each apartment via HIUs & CIUs within individual MEP cupboards. This process was carefully managed to ensure both the client and energy provider were satisfied with the end product to obtain a seemless handover and adoption. 

A total of 11 blocks and 2 basements were individually handed over to the client and full systems C&E / IST carried out for each buildings Practical Completion. Both Mechanical and Electrical services were integrated from Phase 1 – 3, Prime playing a key role in these activities to ensure tennanted apartments were kept to minimal disruption.

Key M&E Services for the project; 

  • Full KNX home automation
  • Titan Heating and Cooling controls 
  • District Heating & Cooling 
  • 2 x life saftey generator and PLC system
  • ATS  
  • Fire Alarm 
  • Sprinkler systems
  • Building security
  • TV & Data  
  • COLT and Advanced Air smoke ventilation systems
  • Lighting control & Emergency lighting 
  • BMS

Colt, Les Ulis Data Centre

Paris

Client: ESG
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
Date Commenced: December 2016

Prime ES have been selected by ESG to provide specialist Commissioning Management services to their expanding European data centre solutions division.

Prime commenced onsite in Paris in December 2016, supplying bi-lingual Commissioning Management support to ESG’s project delivery team.

Les Ulis is Colt’s flagship Paris Data Centre; it is a Modular built facility with a total power provision of 20MVA. Incoming power is generator backed and decentralised N+N static UPS support to the Data Modules. The Data Modules are supplied by two independent 2 MVA electrical feeds (A&B).

Technical Design Data

  • Carrier Neutral Colocation
  • Design PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness Index or energy efficiency) of 1.21
  • Generator backed 20MVA Power Supply
  • Dual UPS support to critical load
  • Adiabatic cooling
  • Gas Suppression Fire Protection
  • Very Early Smoke Detection Alarms (VESDA)

Modular design principles are founded on the industrialization of production and speed
of deployment.

Telehouse TN2 Data Centre Canary Wharf

London

Client: Mace
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
MEP Consultant: Cundall
Date Commenced: September 2016

Prime ES were appointed by main contractor Mace in September 2016 as Commissioning Management support to their Canary Wharf TN2 Data Centre project.

Telehouse North is an advanced colocation data centre.

  • Awarded BREEAM Excellent standard
  • The world’s first multi storey adiabatic cooling system
  • 8 x Generators with N +1 redundancy with a total capacity of 18.5MW

Telecity 6-7 Harbour Exchange

London Docklands

Client: Essex Services Group (ESG)
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
M&E Consultants: MEIT
Project Duration: July 2015 – February 2016

Prime Commissioning Management Services to Phase 2 Telecity Data Centre expansion:

Levels 3 and 4 fit out as data hall, plus associated additional M&E plant at roof level and within
adjacent energy centre.

  • 3MW of customer capacity added
  • Designed as a Tier 3 data centre, delivering high levels of resiliency and redundancy

iO Modular Data Centre

Slough

Client: iO
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
Project Duration: November 2014 – July 2015

In November 2014 Prime were appointed Commissioning Managers to North American Data Centre specialist IO for their new Slough-based facility. Following successful completion and handover of Phase 1, Prime were retained to manage the commisioning of further expansion at the facility

The Data Centre uses the first international deployment of BASELAYER’s advanced ECO modules using outside air cooling, backed by traditional chilled water technology.

This 10,405 sq m colocation site is provided with 20 MVA of core power infrastructure (Phase1). Power backup is via 2.5MVA Caterpillar diesel generators (Up to 7 Units) + Modular UPS deployment in 1.3 MVA increments.

IO runs five other facilities worldwide including, Singapore, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Ohio and New Jersey. This is their second modular Data Centre outside of North America, following
Singapore in 2013.

AWE Project Phoenix

Berkshire

Client: Shepherds Engineering Services (SES)
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
Project Duration: October 2013 – January 2015

Prime were appointed commissioning managers in October 2013 by SES for this £12.5m MEP contract package. Project Phoenix is a new Conventional Manufacturing Facility for AWE at their Burghfield site. The facility provides 8000 sq m of integrated climate controlled floor space. Following rigorus testing & inspection in conjunction with AWE engineers, the project was successfully handed over in January 2015

South Hampstead High
School

London

Client: Essex Services Group (ESG)
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management

  • Value: £14 million New build contemporary designed school including a new sports hall
  • Designed and Commissioned to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating
  • Mechanical and electrical packages include CHP plant, chillers, and fan coil units as well as AHU’s, mains water distribution, sprinklers, BMS, electrical distribution, small power, PV Solar, interior and exterior lighting

Royal London Hospital

Whitechapel, London

Client: Skanska
Type of Contract: Validation & Commissioning Consultancy, Isolation room, Airtightness proving, Energy Auditing
Contract Duration: June 2008 – February 2014

The Royal London Hospital provides district general hospital services for the City and Tower Hamlets and specialist tertiary care services for patients from across London and beyond. Britain’s biggest new hospital includes London’s leading trauma and emergency care centre, one of Europe’s largest renal services and one of the UK’s biggest paediatric services, provided within a dedicated Women and Children’s Hospital, with London’s Air Ambulance, operating from the top of the new building.

Prime were appointed to the project by Skanska to provide commissioning consultancy and validation services. These included providing a design peer review, the commissioning strategy, commissioning programme and real-time trade contractor progress monitoring & reporting,, commissionability review of all systems and the validation and acceptance of final commissioning results.

Data City Exchange

Birmingham

Client: Aggmore
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
M&E Consultants: PAE Consultants (Concept design)
Contract Duration: December 2012 – August 2013

Data City Exchange Birmingham Campus provides 110,000 square feet of high security, modular data centre space based on its own Evo-POD data centre design.

Design features:

  • Modular Data Centre Space offering 8 x 400 – 1200kW 96 Rack Modular Build Evo-PODs
  • EVO-PODs designed to the Uptime Institutes Tier 3 standard and ASHRAE 2011 Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments Class A1
  • Low PUE (Power Usage Efficiency) value

Commissioning Management of M&E Services including:

  • Chilled/condenser water system inc. 80,000 litres buffer vessel integrated within the chilled water system
  • Chilled Water system, utilising cooling towers to benefit from free cooling
  • Fully integrated BMS system interfacing with EMS, fire alarm and all services infrastructure equipment
  • Energy Monitoring System (EMS)
  • Switchgear supplies A & B to critical parts of the system
  • PLC Controlled Generator Back-up
  • 2 x 500kVA Static UPS Systems
  • P1 fire alarm system ucombined with VESDA smoke aspiration systems

View Road

Highgate, London

Client: Harrison Varma
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
M&E Consultants: Hoare Lea
Contract Duration: December 2012 – December 2013

Harrison Varma’s View Road development consists of two new build residential developments situated in Highgate North London, each with a market value £25m. Each home is built to a high specification comprising cinema rooms, games rooms, swimming pools, staff quarters, plant rooms, primary living rooms and bedrooms with en-suites and dressing rooms divided over four floors. Prime were appointed Commissioning Managers on behalf of the developer
Harrison Varma.

Design features:

  • Concealed comfort cooling and heating VRF system with MVHR
  • All occupied areas fitted with electric under floor heating, including wet areas i.e. bathrooms / toilets on 1st & 2nd Floors. Ground Floors and Basement served by LTHW Under Floor Heating
  • Zoned HWS & CWS including solenoid leak detection system
  • Integrated BMS and ELAN (Emulated Local Area Network) Home Automation Systems
  • Rainwater Harvesting & Automated Garden Irrigation
  • Passenger lifts
  • Basement Swimming Pool, Gymnasium & Steam Room
  • Basement cinema & Bar area

Oracle Apartments

Hampstead, London

London Evening Standard Homes & Property, New Homes award winner

Client: Harrison Varma
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
M&E Consultants: Hoare Lea
Contract Duration: April – October 2012

The Oracle Apartments consist of seven high-end residential homes with secure underground parking situated on prestigious West Heath Road Hampstead. Prime were appointed Commissioning Managers on behalf of the developer Harrison Varma. 

Design features:

  • Concealed comfort cooling and heating VRF system with MVHR
  • All occupied areas fitted with electric under floor warming, including wet areas i.e. bathrooms / toilets
  • All hot water provided via LTHW heat exchangers served from CHP Unit and supplemented with centralised Boiler plant
  • Centralised BMS Controls
  • Rainwater Harvesting & Automated Garden Irrigation
  • Two dedicated 8 person lifts
  • Secure, gated access control system with integrated video entry for pedestrian visitors
  • Infrared CCTV monitoring systems with TV interface
  • Wireless building wide integrated fire alarm system

RAF Wyton

MOD Secure Data Processing Facility, Cambridgeshire

Client: Skanska
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
Architect: Scott Brownrigg
M&E Consultants: WSP
Contract Duration: 2010 – 2013

Phase I consitsed of an 8MW £150m secure data processing facility at RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire, part of the Defence Intelligence modernisation programme. The Prime Team provided Commissioning Management services from design review stage through to Practical Completion

Practical completion was achieved following a long rigorous Integrated Systems Testing regime, designed and managed by Prime

We are proud of our key role on behalf of Skanska in achieving the successful and timely delivery of this important Defence Intelligence facility to the MOD in December 2011

Prime were subsequently retained by Skanska to complete Phase II, Support and Maintenance Facility – successfully handed over to the Ministry of Defence in May 2013

“The quality of the facilities provided are exemplary” – MOD Defence Intelligence May 2013

South Place Hotel

London

Client: McLaren Construction Ltd
Type of Contract: Verification Engineers
M&E Consultants: Hoare Lea
Contract Completion: October 2012

South Place Hotel is a new boutique hotel constructed at 3 – 4 South Place in the City of London. The building is 10 storeys with 5 floors of hotel rooms with 80 guest rooms in total. Front of house areas comprise entrance foyer, brassiere, bars, function rooms, sauna, steam room, gym and restaurants. Support facilities and plant are provided in the basement with further plant at roof level. Kitchens in the basement, ground, first and seventh floors.

Commissioned to BREEAM Excellent rating

Four Seasons Hotel

Park Lane, London

Client: Beck Interiors
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
M&E Consultants: i.d.a
Project Duration: March 2010 – February 2011

Prime were appointed Commissioning Managers to the project by the main
contractor Becks Interiors

Design features:

  • CHP
  • Sprinkler & Water mist System
  • Fourpipe FCU System (Guest rooms)
  • Front of House VAV System
  • Under Floor Heating
  • Cold Rooms
  • INNCOM System (Integrated guest room automated control system)
  • Spa
  • Centralised BMS

Regents Place

London

Client: British Land PLC
Type of Contract: Commissioning Management
M&E Consultants: Watkins Payne
Contract Completion: 2009

This £195m commercial mixed use development is comprised of two commercial office buildings (366,000 ft² grade A office space) sited at the new Triton Street, a residential building on Osnaburgh Street comprised of 154 apartments within a twenty storey tower,  a community theatre (New Diorama Arts Centre) and  7,940 ft² of A3 retail space.

Our commissioning management services throughout the construction phase ensured a successful completion of the project*

Completed in 2009 the development achieved BREEAM Excellent environmental ratings

  • Residential excellent Ecohomes rating
  • Offices excellent BREEAM rating
  • Photovoltaic cells
  • CHP
  • Rainwater harvesting
  • Solar thermal panels
  • Green roof

*Regent Place Commissioning Managemet by Prime staff on behalf of Commtech Group

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