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A charming documentary film about the community of residents in our workplace New England House. Film by our very talented neighbours Daisy Street Films.

A house for New England (2022)

This week AMA have had a student from the Lewes Priory School on a work experience placement. We were impressed by the students positive attitude, eagerness to learn and maturity. Well done Albert and all the best with your future studies!

AMA take a field trip out to the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. The wind farm is located off the Brighton coast in the English Channel on a 70 square kilometer site. The site has 116 turbines, an offshore substation, 400MW installed capacity and generates 1,400GWh of electricity per year.

We were lucky to have sunshine and calm seas. The turbines were elegant, quiet and larger than expected at close up; the diameter of the blades is 112m! We welcome the plans of Rampion 2 and expanding the wind farm.

Chailey Clinical Services decarbonised heating project is now complete. The works involved replacing existing gas fired boilers with new Air Souce Heat Pumps (ASHPs) to provide heating for the Chailey Clinical Services building.

The ASHPs are arranged in a duty/ stand-by configuration which provides resilience as required by the HTMs.

The works also involved an upgrade of the existing incoming power supply and reconfiguration of the existing site electrical infrastructure to provide sufficient power for the new ASHPs.

The Trust employed AMA to take over from another Consultant and we were retained for full MEP and Contract Administration duties.

AMA undertook a due diligence review of the existing design, redesign works, regular site inspections, cost control and witnessing the systems operation.

AMA have completed a thermal impact of solar shading assessment at Eastbourne District General Hospital. The study included real time temperature monitoring and temperature data recording, this data was used to verify a ‘digital twin’ IES thermal model for further simulations. It was dicovered that external shading can reduce potential cooling energy demand by approximatley 50%.

https://amaconsult.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1580-ESNHT-Eastbourne-Shading-Study.pdf

Work has begun on the new extension at St. Luke’s Cancer Centre, Guildford Hospital. AMA are retained by the Trust for full MEP duties.

The new Brighton recording studio Salvation Studios is now complete. AMA were employed to carry out M&E design and thermal modelling. We enjoyed working on this interesting project where the old Salvation Army Hall was renovated to form a state of the art music recording studio. Photos by Salvation Studios

AMA are working for Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust at East Surrey Hospital on the M&E design associated with the refurbishment of the two existing LINAC spaces. The works are caried out to accommodate new Linear Accelerator machines within the St. Luke’s Cancer Centre.

AMA are working for East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, designing domestic hot and cold water services (DHWS) serving the industial zone. The existing steam system will be replaced. This work includes the provision of new strategically located electric boilers serving unvented domestic hot water calorifiers.

AMA appointed by the Powell-Cotton Museum to carry out condition survey of existing M&E services. The museum houses natural history dioramas and a wide range of specimens and collections of world-culture objects.