4.12  Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Requirements

General Requirements

The Contractor shall provide engineering systems that utilise technology to create a high quality, energy efficient environment that will provide comfortable facilities for all Users of the facility and the staff. The Contractor shall ensure the services network is efficient, effective, flexible and unobtrusive, is easy to maintain and shall maximise the opportunities for flexible adaptation and extension.  Service installations shall incorporate self-diagnostic automatic fault finding facilities in accordance with current industry practice.

Electrical, mechanical and communication services shall be designed as an integral and co-ordinated part of the design. Services shall be clearly identified at regular intervals and at all locations where maintenance access is likely to be required.

In accordance with Good Industry Practice, all plant, plant spaces and building services systems shall be specifically designed and provided with appropriate reserve capacity allowances and future expansion capabilities for the Facility:

The Contractor shall ensure that all materials and equipment used are standard components, regularly manufactured for this and/or other systems and not custom designed specially for this project. The Contractor shall ensure that all systems and components have been thoroughly tested and proven in actual use, for at least two years, within other establishments of a similar size and complexity to this one.

Provision is to be designed in as appropriate for monitoring systems (including tanks) to minimise the risk of Legionella.