Boston Spa - British Library

BRITISH LIBRARY OPENS THE BOOK ON FLUE EFFICIENCY
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Major improvements to the flue system at the British Library’s Boston Spa site have been completed by A1 Bridge Flue Systems.
The Library’s Yorkshire site employs 1300 people and dispatches nearly four million documents annually to individuals and organisations worldwide. Customers include those operating in education, science, business, charity and industrial sectors.

Because of the type of fuel used on site, particularly acidic flue conditions exist - this in turn had caused problems with fume leakage in the plant room. Library staff do not have access to this area and the leak did not pose any danger to them, however, the problem had to be resolved.

To minimise disruption within the complex, A1 Bridge Flue Systems completed the renovation in just three days, stripping out the existing flue system and replacing it with a new pressure resistant Deltavent twin wall system. This connected from the boiler to the base of a thirty metre high stack.

Throughout the refurbishment, heat was maintained to the Library using boiler rotation.

Malcolm Campbell, Boston Spa’s facilities manager commented: “We were very pleased with the flue renovation work carried out by A1 Bridge Flue Systems. They completed the job swiftly and to a high standard. Fume leakage into our boiler plant no longer occurs and as an added benefit the boilers operate more efficiently”.