Case Studies

Date: 21/11/2025Customer: Anglian WaterSite: Tilbury OverviewOur engineer completed the installation of a new control panel and associated cabling at the Anglian Water site in [...]

When Anglian Water contacted Gibbons Engineering Group regarding their aeration blowers at Hadleigh Works near Ipswich, they had a specific challenge in mind. They [...]

Customer: Anglian WaterSite details/Job: Botesdale temporary aerator 7.5kW VSD installDate: 13/10/25 Project Overview:The project involved upgrading an existing Variable Speed Drive (VSD) system to [...]

Customer: Anglian Water Location: Rayleigh Date: 9th May 2025 At Rayleigh East, Gibbons Engineering Group was tasked with installing a new Variable Speed Drive [...]

Client: Anglian WaterProject: Combs Pump 2 – VSD RetrofitDate: 19/08/2025 A Gibbons Engineer carried out a retrofit at Anglian Water’s Combs site, replacing an [...]

iMod® Coil Cleaning with ROI: Lower Static Pressure & Higher Efficiency GPS Air's iMod - a modular high-output ionizing system - helps clean deep-row [...]

Client: Anglian Water Location: North Ockenden, Essex Project Overview At Anglian Water’s North Ockenden site, a roadside kiosk housing vital control equipment for a [...]

Client: Anglian WaterLocation: Wickford, EssexDate: 18th July 2025Duration: 2 DaysPersonnel: 1 Engineer Project Overview Anglian Water required a VSD installation (Variable Speed Drive) to [...]

Overview Gibbons Engineering Group was tasked with upgrading the existing motor control system for a client by replacing two Variable Speed Drives (VSDs) with [...]

Client: Anglian Water Location: Wivenhoe, Essex Date: April 2025 Project Type: VSD Upgrade & Control Panel Modifications Products Used: x3 18.5kW ABB ACQ580 Variable [...]

Objective: To conduct AHU inspection (Air Handling Units) following a previous pre-commissioning visit. Background The AHUs in question had been inactive for nearly six [...]

Overview Gibbons Engineering Group was called upon to address multiple maintenance and repairs at a supermarket headquarters in London, UK. These included bearing replacements [...]

Client: Anglia Water, Kings Lynn, Norfolk UK Industry: Water & Sewage Treatment Project: Replacement of Effluent Pump Drive System Partners: Gibbons Engineering Group, [...]

Sprites Hall water treatment works At Sprites Hall Water Booster, Gibbons Engineering initially installed variable speed drives (VSDs) back in 2001. After 23 years [...]

Project Objective: The objective of this service visit was to perform comprehensive maintenance on three centrifugal fans located at the university. Site Visit Overview: [...]

Overview: A high-profile water supplier contacted the Gibbons support team with an urgent request for emergency engineers on-site, after discovering that a room containing [...]

Project Overview The Gibbons HVAC team was tasked with upgrading and maintaining the HVAC system in a high-profile London court building, focusing on Air [...]

Based on the results from this study, the hospital implemented GPS Air’s NPBI technology in all HVAC systems including patient rooms, operating rooms (OR), [...]

Our engineers were called to a site in Witham, Essex to replace a 110kW electric motor for a blower that kills bacteria by aerating [...]

The Gibbons team was recently called to an Anglian Water site in Little Waltham to upgrade an old slip ring electric motor and starter [...]

Project Overview: The Colchester Garrison, a prominent military installation, houses a range of facilities for soldiers' recreational activities, including a swimming pool. The management [...]

The brief Gibbons HVAC engineers recently completed the inspection of the main portal axial fans in a major UK road tunnel. The site visit [...]

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 [...]

When a local farmer had noise issues with the huge aeration fans that keep his grain cool and dry, he decided it was time [...]

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 Gibbons maintenance team was recently on hand at Colchester Zoo to remove a pump from the sea lion enclosure as it was due [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Situated in Maldon, Essex, Fiberweb Geosynthetics is a subsidiary of Berry Global, a global plastics manufacturer. The factory in Maldon produces a wide range [...]

A major central London bank was able to identify significant energy savings and enhance staff wellbeing thanks to a trial of Gibbons' Total Coil [...]

On a warm, bright Sunday morning, our emergency drives team received an urgent call from a local sugar processing plant. The Gibbons team sprang [...]

At the end of another busy day, Gibbons received a call from our customer reporting a failed centrifugal fan bearing. The fan served an [...]

When we took the call from a food processing company, Gibbons’ engineers were on hand to limit downtime. We knew we would have to [...]

When a market leader in paint shop design and manufacture experienced an untimely and frustrating paint shop fan breakdown during a crucial production run [...]

How one out of hours call about a Variable Speed Drive failure got resolved within half a day – and potentially avoided some serious [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When a motor breakdown caused an important aerator at a Sewage Treatment Works to fail, we were on hand to supply an emergency motor [...]

The safe and secure storage of data is now of major importance and precisely maintaining conditions for the vast racks of electronics is a [...]

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 [...]

The Gibbons HVAC team fully serviced an AHU for a council run swimming pool in Suffolk.  The works involved the main AHU providing supply [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

ABB drive and control package helps Baxters Food Group to increase production capabilities at its Colchester site. Baxters Food Group is using an ABB [...]

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 [...]

The Problem: A top London hotel – which has featured in some iconic British films such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – [...]

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 Problem: The Network Building, a seven-storey property located in the heart of London, needed its rooftop air handling unit serviced and upgraded. Due [...]

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 [...]

The Problem: Our client needed two large Air Handling Units, including thermal wheels, to be constructed within the dizzy heights of a 20th floor [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Problem: A reservoir in Suffolk was being fed by two borehole pumps operated by Anglian Water. Both pumps were running at a fixed [...]

The Problem: The cooling coil of an air handling unit that was part of a HVAC system serving a new development on the Cambridge [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Problem: A prestigious Essex golf club needed to upgrade their irrigation pump set system during the joint-hottest summer on [...]

When flood damage at a pumping station threatened to cut the water supply to 25,000 homes, a rapid response helped Essex & Suffolk Water [...]

Henry Siggers farms 450 hectares of group 1 milling wheat at Leapingwells Farm in Kelvedon, Essex – the fourth generation of his family to [...]

The fan equipment within tunnels is arguably one of the most important items of plant.  Typically this equipment is installed to save lives in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When Essex & Sussex Ormesby Water Treatment Works needed an upgraded Orthophosphoric Acid Dosing Pump Drive, Gibbons were on hand to deliver the project. [...]

Colchester Zoo is one of the finest zoos in Europe thanks to a continuing programme of development, which has seen it win the coveted [...]

When the clear honey line at Tiptree-based Wilkin & Sons was to be modified to incorporate a set honey production, the [...]

Airkix in Milton Keynes (now known as iFLY) was the first European indoor skydiving tunnel of its kind upon opening in 2005. Air is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In March 2016, leading UK malt producer Bairds Malt asked Gibbons Engineering Group to modernise an agitator system at its Witham plant. The project [...]

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 [...]

Gibbons were commissioned to replace a motor gear box for Bairds Malt - a leading UK name in malt production. Having served the brewing [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Wilkin & Sons of Tiptree has been making jam, marmalade and other preserves for more than 130 years, producing much of its own fruit [...]

Full electrical installation for new-build grain store, including bespoke grain-dryer fan system, mains power, wiring, control panel, sockets and high-bay lighting. [...]

When leading UK malt producer Bairds Malt chose to upgrade the drive system in a crucial element of their operation, they turned to Gibbons [...]

A quick response from ABB authorised value provider Gibbons Engineering Group allowed a local water authority to quickly resume operations and avoid service interruption [...]