Energy efficiency in the Scottish Parliament

The 4-acre Holyrood site incorporates a building to house the Scottish Parliament debating chamber, committee rooms, and office accommodation for 105 Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) and staff, as well as media suites, visitor information facilities, ancillary staff buildings and catering facilities. The new building should feature the integration of energy-efficient and environmentally conscious design principles.

Grundfos played a pivotal role in achieving this in all aspects relating to the pump and pumping supply, ensuring all the stringent environmental criteria were met. The solutions provided were also quite simply the best products available in terms of their individual functions. Working closely with all the relevant parties, Grundfos played a project management role at all the many stages of construction to ensure the timely supply of information, quotations, and technical assistance, as well as product deliveries and commissioning.
The work was undertaken in several phases extending over the period 1999-2004. Grundfos supplied a total of 44 pumps - many of them electronically controlled - along with 5 variable-speed booster sets and 5 pressurisation sets for this landmark complex. This was one of the first building projects for which Grundfos supplied MAGNA pumps. By incorporating variable-speed pumps that provide users with reductions of up to 70% in energy costs, the project has become an example for future developments to follow.