Major road tunnel fan maintenance
The brief Gibbons HVAC engineers recently completed the inspection of the main portal axial fans in a major UK road tunnel. The site visit was intended to specifically assess [...]
No Time to Waste
There was no time to waste when the Gibbons team was recently dispatched to the Anglian Water Stambourne site to fine-tune and enhance the performance of the balance tank [...]
Noise issues, no problem
When a local farmer had noise issues with the huge aeration fans that keep his grain cool and dry, he decided it was time to optimise the system that [...]
Temporary bore hole drive
The Gibbons electrical engineers were on hand at a Northumbrian Water site in Rickenhall to connect a Variable-Speed Drive to a pump that controls the flow of water from [...]
Colchester Zoo – Patagonia pump refurbishment
The Gibbons maintenance team was recently on hand at Colchester Zoo to remove a pump from the sea lion enclosure as it was due for its annual inspection and [...]
Retrofit at Ardleigh Treatment Works
Anglian Water is the largest water and water recycling company in England and Wales by area, providing drinking water to more than 4.2 million households in the east of [...]
Out with the old, in with a new ABB ACH580
When the Hitachi Variable-Speed Drive failed on low-lift pump No.2 at a water treatment works, we knew exactly what to do. Three years ago, we were asked to replace [...]
Workers feel the heat at a plastic processing plant
Situated in Maldon, Essex, Fiberweb Geosynthetics is a subsidiary of Berry Global, a global plastics manufacturer. The factory in Maldon produces a wide range of products used in multiple [...]
Bank Gains Interest with Total Coil Disinfection System
A major central London bank was able to identify significant energy savings and enhance staff wellbeing thanks to a trial of Gibbons' Total Coil Disinfection System. Gibbons conducted air [...]
Emergency drive-hire team comes to the rescue
On a warm, bright Sunday morning, our emergency drives team received an urgent call from a local sugar processing plant. The Gibbons team sprang into action to deliver an [...]
A Failed Centrifugal Fan almost causes disruption
At the end of another busy day, Gibbons received a call from our customer reporting a failed centrifugal fan bearing. The fan served an important area within the client’s [...]
Gibbons’ Engineers are on hand to limit the downtime of an industrial mixer
When we took the call from a food processing company, Gibbons’ engineers were on hand to limit downtime. We knew we would have to act fast to get their [...]
Paint Shop Fan Breakdown Repair
When a market leader in paint shop design and manufacture experienced an untimely and frustrating paint shop fan breakdown during a crucial production run in their busy workshop, they [...]
Driving a Drive to Ely Early
How one out of hours call about a Variable Speed Drive failure got resolved within half a day – and potentially avoided some serious consequences. On a Thursday night [...]
Replacing Jet Fans At Lightning Speed
The Roundhill tunnels were opened in 1993, they link Roundhill and Palmer’s Hill in Kent on the A20. The tunnels took three years to build, they are 380 metres [...]
Inverter installation for Water Provider
In September 2020, the Optimisation Team at Anglian Water tasked Gibbons Engineering Group to complete an inverter drive upgrade in Burnham-on-Crouch. The Anglian Water site at Burnham had a [...]
Emergency Motor Replacement for Water Provider
When a motor breakdown caused an important aerator at a Sewage Treatment Works to fail, we were on hand to supply an emergency motor replacement and get the equipment [...]
Plasma Air Ionization
Successful certified testing conducted in a building facility proves virus destroying power. Testing carried out by Tayra and backed by the Spanish Ministry of Defense Biological Laboratory in [...]
Data Centre Humidification
The safe and secure storage of data is now of major importance and precisely maintaining conditions for the vast racks of electronics is a vital element of ensuring data [...]
Gibbons’ Humidification System Commissioned Worldwide
Back in 2008, a global manufacturer of semiconductors commissioned Gibbons Humidification to convert its Scottish production facility from compressed-air spray-nozzle humidifiers to our rotary atomiser system. The intervening years [...]
Swimming Pool Air Handling Unit Servicing
The Gibbons HVAC team fully serviced an AHU for a council run swimming pool in Suffolk. The works involved the main AHU providing supply and extract air. The AHU [...]
Major Financial Institution Installs UVC
When a major international financial institution wanted to improve indoor air quality (IAQ) at its 250,000-square feet central London commercial offices in order to comply with the WELL Building [...]
Hire Drives Keep Water Flowing for Anglian Water Customers
A pumping station is repaired within hours following a drive breakdown, avoiding 2,000 homes being left without water. Anglian Water avoided a serious interruption to customer’s water supplies following [...]
Food Manufacturer Adds ABB Drive to the Mix
ABB drive and control package helps Baxters Food Group to increase production capabilities at its Colchester site. Baxters Food Group is using an ABB variable speed drive (VSD) to [...]
Anglian Water Motor Replacement
The Problem: When a pump motor working at Anglian Water’s Long Sutton Sewage Treatment Works burnt out, it needed to be quickly replaced with a new motor with a different [...]
Lock, Stock and one Smoking Extractor Fan!
The Problem: A top London hotel – which has featured in some iconic British films such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – needed a kitchen extractor fan [...]
Condition Based Monitoring
Our effective condition monitoring service involves extensive assessment of equipment such as fans, electric motors and pumps, which enables us to help clients in the prediction of plant failures. [...]
Air Handling Unit Upgrade for the Network Building
The Problem: The Network Building, a seven-storey property located in the heart of London, needed its rooftop air handling unit serviced and upgraded. Due to the building having 56,000 [...]
Swimming Pool Air Handling Unit Refurbishment
The Problem: A council-run leisure pool in Suffolk was faced with an inefficient, failing air handling system. The air handling units (AHUs) in question served as the main supply [...]
Air Handling Unit Installation on the 20th Floor
The Problem: Our client needed two large Air Handling Units, including thermal wheels, to be constructed within the dizzy heights of a 20th floor roof plant area. The 5.3-metre [...]
Barbican Centre Humidification System Refurbishment
The Problem: The Barbican on London’s Silk Street opened in 1982 and welcomes over 1.8 million visitors each year. The Grade II listed building has been serviced by a [...]
Arla Foods Ventilation Improvements
The Problem: Arla Foods, one of the UK’s leading dairy companies, wished to improve ventilation at their facility, where they process approximately two billion litres of milk a year. [...]
Anglian Water Cuts £2,000 a Year
The Problem: A reservoir in Suffolk was being fed by two borehole pumps operated by Anglian Water. Both pumps were running at a fixed speed all of the time [...]
Cooling Coil Replacement Requires a Head for Heights
The Problem: The cooling coil of an air handling unit that was part of a HVAC system serving a new development on the Cambridge University Campus failed as a [...]
Cooling Tower Upgrade for Major Retailer
The Problem: The incumbent facilities company working on behalf of one of the UK’s largest grocery retailers asked our HVAC team to undertake an assessment of the existing cooling [...]
Gibbons HVAC Services on hand at London’s Canary Wharf
The Problem: A fire-damaged air handling unit that was serving a prestigious 14,000 sq. ft office building in London’s Canary Wharf needed to be removed and replaced. A standard [...]
Ultraviolet System Trialled at NHS Facility
Hospitals and healthcare facilities are among the most important places to have the very best levels of indoor air quality. As part of a continuous process of monitoring, annual third-party microbial testing revealed [...]
Lilly Pharmaceuticals Save Energy with Gibbons
The Lilly building comprises a large office space designed around a full-height central atrium. The building was originally built to a high specification in 1994. Gibbons have undertaken a [...]
Total Coil Disinfection Significantly Improves Energy Efficiency for Major UK Retailer
The Problem: Facilities management at the head office of one of the UK’s leading retailers wanted to improve HVAC energy efficiency and increase cooling performance. Our Solution: Our Ultraviolet [...]
Golf Club Links with Gibbons for Irrigation System Improvement
The Problem: A prestigious Essex golf club needed to upgrade their irrigation pump set system during the joint-hottest summer on record, meaning irrigation demand for [...]
Rapid Response from Gibbons Prevents Critical Pumping Station from Running Dry
When flood damage at a pumping station threatened to cut the water supply to 25,000 homes, a rapid response helped Essex & Suffolk Water keep the water flowing. Thirty [...]
Essex Farmer Reaps the Benefits of Using Single Electrical Contractor for Grain Store
Henry Siggers farms 450 hectares of group 1 milling wheat at Leapingwells Farm in Kelvedon, Essex – the fourth generation of his family to do so. Having used Gibbons [...]
Service and Maintenance of Road and Rail Tunnel Fans
The fan equipment within tunnels is arguably one of the most important items of plant. Typically this equipment is installed to save lives in the event of an emergency [...]
Air Purging System at Bairds Malt
Bairds Malt is one of the UK’s leading producers of malt, shipping globally to all sectors of the brewing and distilling industries. Gibbons have been proud to work with [...]
Thermal Wheel Building
A thermal wheel (also known as a rotary heat exchanger, rotary air-to-air enthalpy wheel or heat recovery wheel) is a type of energy-recovery heat exchanger. It is positioned within [...]
Sludge Optimisation for Anglian Water
Anglian Water's Colchester Sewage Treatment Works called upon Gibbons when two sludge pump upgrades also called for two new variable speed drives. The pumps in question were two 11kW [...]
Chemical Optimisation
When Essex & Sussex Ormesby Water Treatment Works needed an upgraded Orthophosphoric Acid Dosing Pump Drive, Gibbons were on hand to deliver the project. An important part of the [...]
Colchester Zoo Pump Overhaul
Colchester Zoo is one of the finest zoos in Europe thanks to a continuing programme of development, which has seen it win the coveted Large Visitor Attraction of the [...]
Honey Line Improvements for Famous Jam Producer
When the clear honey line at Tiptree-based Wilkin & Sons was to be modified to incorporate a set honey production, the fruit preserving company turned to [...]
Indoor Skydiving Fan Refurbishment
Airkix in Milton Keynes (now known as iFLY) was the first European indoor skydiving tunnel of its kind upon opening in 2005. Air is circulated into a flight chamber [...]
Gibbons Ultraviolet Solutions Rectify College Odour Issue
When a national building contractor working on a new £25 million college development identified an unpleasant problem with a recently-constructed property, they called in Gibbons Ultraviolet Solutions. A constant, [...]
Apple-Milling Process Refurbished
When a Suffolk brewery – one of Britain’s oldest family-run businesses – required three essential elements of its apple-milling process to be refurbished, they turned to Gibbons Engineering Group [...]
Control System Project for UK Malt Producer
In March 2016, leading UK malt producer Bairds Malt asked Gibbons Engineering Group to modernise an agitator system at its Witham plant. The project was so successful that Bairds [...]
Emergency Drive Hire for Anglian Water
A quick response from ABB authorised value provider Gibbons Engineering Group allowed Anglian Water to avoid the risk of a sewage leak and resume operations within a day by loaning [...]
Gibbons Replace a Motor Gearbox for Leading UK Malt Producer
Gibbons were commissioned to replace a motor gear box for Bairds Malt - a leading UK name in malt production. Having served the brewing and distilling industries worldwide since [...]
Malt Producer Raises Glass to Improved Productivity with ABB drive
A production facility that turns barley into malt for use in beer and whisky production has increased productivity and safety by installing a new germination machine controlled by an ABB [...]
Variable-Speed Drive Installation
Gibbons Engineering Group has undertaken thousands of successful variable-speed drive (VSD) installations over many years, witnessing the full potential of drive technology being realised. Our client base is wide [...]
DC to AC Motor Upgrade for International Manufacturer
When an international manufacturer of cabling and connectors for broadband, telecoms and satellite solutions wanted to upgrade a cable extrusion machine from DC to AC power, Gibbons was commissioned to [...]
Gibbons Improves Hygiene and Efficiency at Famous Jam Factory
Wilkin & Sons of Tiptree has been making jam, marmalade and other preserves for more than 130 years, producing much of its own fruit on 850 acres of Essex [...]
Full Electrical Installation for New-Build Grain Store
Full electrical installation for new-build grain store, including bespoke grain-dryer fan system, mains power, wiring, control panel, sockets and high-bay lighting. [...]
Bairds Malt Kiln Fan Drive Replacement
When leading UK malt producer Bairds Malt chose to upgrade the drive system in a crucial element of their operation, they turned to Gibbons to carry out the challenging [...]
24-Hour Drive Hire Minimises Disruption for Water Authority
A quick response from ABB authorised value provider Gibbons Engineering Group allowed a local water authority to quickly resume operations and avoid service interruption following a variable speed drive [...]
