West Siphonic Systems are proud to receive the Certificate of Excellence for the second time in twelve months. This certificate has been awarded for outstanding H&S performance across all Winvic sites.
We would like to thank our Contracts Management team, Simon Wilkinson, Andy Clarke, Liam Sadler, and Connor (The Rock) Howarth for implementing the safe systems of work, and a big thank you to our site teams for taking everything on board and working safely.
West Siphonics Systems Ltd is delighted to announce the arrival of new employees Emily Pierpoint and Connor Howarth to our team.
Emily Pierpoint has started as Assistant QS where she will be working under the supervision of our Accounts Manager Gill Pierpoint.
Connor Howarth has begun the role of Trainee Project Manager and will be working closely with our Operations Manager Simon Wilkinson & Contracts Manager Andrew C.
All of us at West Siphonics Systems Ltd wish you a happy and prosperous future in your new roles and we will be here to support you at all times.
We’ve just been accredited with the quarterly Winvic “Recognition of Excellence” certificate. This certificate is awarded for outstanding H&S performance across all of our sites. We were chosen for this certificate based on the following criteria:
• Quality Observations.
• Innovation.
• General Inspection Scores.
• Number of stop operation notices.
• Good feedback from the Winvic Operations team.
• The number of accidents/incidents.
West Siphonics Systems were appointed by Winvic Construction to design, supply & install the Siphonic drainage to all 5 Units. This 238-acre development will be home to Jaguar Land Rover, making this the UK’s largest single occupier logistics park.
We’ve just been accredited with the Constructionline Gold and Silver Membership Certificates of Accreditation. This certifies that West Siphonic Systems Ltd has met pre-qualification requirements appropriate to public and private sector procurement. If would like more information about our accreditations, please contact us.
We’ve just been accredited with the CHAS Certificate of Accreditation. This certifies that West Siphonic Systems Ltd has demonstrated compliance with the CHAS standards in line with SSIP Core Criteria and UK H&S Legislation and has been awarded accreditation to the requirements of the CDM Regulations 2015. If you’d like to know more about this accreditation, please contact touch.
ICON 2 is strategically located at Manchester Airport City in close proximity to the World Freight Terminal. West Siphonics modelled 3344m of Siphonic pipework in 3D to produce a working BIM model of the design to aid coordination. The 260m long warehouse is drained via Primary downpipes located at one end of the building and Secondary systems split to each end.
The building consists of the following:
Project Triathlon is plot No. 12 on the EMG (East Midlands Gateway) site in Castle Donington. The project consists of a 35m tall high bay warehouse and a 20m tall low bay warehouse. All roof areas are drained via primary and secondary siphonic drainage systems.
Below are some project-specific statistics;
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This impressive site contains a 1,000,000 square foot warehouse and a multi-storey staff car park. The main warehouse roof consists of 2 eaves gutters & 14 valley gutters, the roof is also hip ended. The total roof area is approximately 91,950 m2, based on the specified rainfall intensity and geographical location of the project, this equates to a staggering 5,300 litres of rainwater per second falling onto the warehouse roof during peak storm conditions.
Due to the vast amount of water on the warehouse roof and external yard area, your typical surface water underground drainage network would simply not suffice. Therefore, approximately 1.5 Kilometres of Ø2800mm (yes, 2.8-metre diameter pipe!) was installed underground around the full perimeter of the warehouse to cope with the extreme volume of water.
The Siphonic roof drainage consists of primary & secondary systems. On a typical project, the secondary systems would discharge 500mm above external FFL onto hardstanding. On this occasion West Siphonics was asked to run the secondary systems underground alongside the primary systems into the underground drainage network – this was due to the external yard drainage being unable to cope with the potentially high volume of water being discharged onto it. In some cases, the Ø2800mm underground pipework is over 40 metres away from the perimeter of the building. We were able to build this into our Siphonic calculations which meant our pipework could run fully Siphonic all the way out to the discharge point, negating the need for a fall on the pipework as would be necessary with a traditional gravity-fed pipe.
West Siphonics produced 3D Revit models as per the project BIM requirements and attended several coordination/clash detection meetings to ensure our systems were fully co-ordinated with other services prior to our start on site.
In conclusion, West Siphonics are very proud to be a part of this prestigious project. We are happy to report that our site installation teams are progressing well on-site and are on target to hit programme.
