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Power, Energy and Waste

Wilde Consultants have designed buildings and facilities for power generation and energy distribution. (Boiler plants, switch rooms, transformer enclosures, distribution yards, CHP generation installations). Since the mid 1990’s the rising importance of waste management and sustainability has led to an increase in the numbers of linked projects aimed at delivering energy from waste. We have worked on substantial projects for process designers and corporate clients aimed at providing sustainable solutions in energy delivery. These have included coal burning, gas burning, incineration, gassification and pyrolisation.

In parallel with the push toward sustainability, the increasing efforts in waste recycling have resulted in much more consistent waste streams which can provide more reliable fuel components for future energy plant designs. This ongoing development demands greater sophistication in materials handling buildings such as Waste Transfer Stations (WTS), Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC’s), and waste segregation facilities such as Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF’s),

One of many recent changes has been a huge increase in the recycling of paper. This means that existing forest supplies can be used for lumber, and the resulting forest waste can then become another fuel resource for a new generation of boilers.

Energy generated from gas is now feasible for much smaller Combined Heat and Power (CHP) installations and the gas to power these can be obtained from landfill, leachate treatment and other sources thus also reducing harmful emissions. Wilde’s have provided full civil and structural design input for leachate facilities and different CHP installations running on various fuel streams (diesel, methane, natural gas etc).

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Relevant Case Studies...

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Lyne Lane Household Waste Recycling Centre

Client: Surrey County Council
• Construction alongside mainline railway
• No offsite surface water drainage permitted
• Surface water management plan and soakaway to environment agency approval
• Retaining wall and civils detail design
• Vehicle movement study and swept path analysis
• Office and site monitoring facility
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Shotton Paper Mill Multi Fuel Boiler Facility

Client: UPM-Kymmene
• Planning submission information
• Contract development and procurement
• Enabling works
• Sub-contractor assessment (Civil)
• Construction supervision
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Shell Green Sludge Incineration Plant

Client: United Utilities
• Main building and foundation design
• Plant supports and ancillary items
• Full design detail support to main project contractor
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C.H.P.P Plant Midlands Research Station

Client: British Gas
• Foundation and building design
• External works
• RC service ducts and plant supports
• Access platform and walk ways
• Exhaust stack foundation
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Rigby Lane Waste Transfer Station

Client: SITA
• New weighbridges and metal waste sorting areas
• Low level vehicle loading alley alongside
• Site planning drawings
• Surface water management plan to Environment Agency approval
• Surface water discharge into Grand Union Canal
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CHP – Great Western Railway

Client: Liverpool Museum Energy Centre
• Conversion of listed bonded warehouse on Liverpool waterfront to form new CHP Energy Centre
• Existing historical features maintained
• New ‘period’ chimney designed for exhaust
• New gas regulation room
• New transformer and switch room
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Birmingham Heartlands Hospital Boiler House and Diesel Tanks

Client: Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
• Planning submission information
• Surveys and building approvals
• Detailed design
• Construction safety review
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Cottonmount Landfill Site

Client: Biffa
• Anti-bird netting near Belfast airport
• Long single span cable (350m)
• Main cable load sensing
• Light weight ‘A’ frame anchors on steel bases for relocation
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Materials Recovery Facility Building

Client: Northwest paper company
• BREEAM excellent project
• Bulk waste storage building
• Waste sorting facility
• Ancillary offices
• Surface water management lagoon
• Dynamic compaction and fill stabilisation
• Services diversions

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