Industry & Office

AJ Power Factory, Craigavon

AJ Power (Generator Manufacturers) employed K&C to design a new purpose built factory unit on part of their existing site.

The new factory  is @ 1460m² (15,700sq ft) and accommodates the assembly and testing of “one off” specialized generators with units weighing in the range of 5 – 25 tonnes each. Moving such large components in certain sequences to finish at a test cell included the installation of an overhead servicing crane, on runners which had full coverage of the main shop floor. Access to the test cells was via a carefully designed floor track system suitable of maximizing testing on 1no large machine or 2no smaller machines in each test cell simultaneously.

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Noise pollution was of great importance and attenuation was provided not only to adjacent properties and the general public but also to factory operatives.

The new factory is constructed with a 30Kn/² live loading power floated concrete floor complete with sumps at the test cells to catch fuel / chemical “blow off”. Walls are a combination of internal fair faced block work to a height of 2.400m with 100mm insulated cavity and external skin of architectural block work again to 2.400m high. Composite metal wall cladding above with composite panel roof cladding –  all cladding being PIR core LPCB approved. Special sized wall grills 5.000m x 3.000m were positioned in the walls adjacent to the internal mezzanine to the front of the factory providing air intake and extract from the test cells

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Project delivery on time and within budget