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Kimpton Energy Solutions is proud to announce that we have committed to honour the Armed Forces Covenant. We recognise the value serving personnel – regular and reservists, veterans and military families – contribute to our business, our community and country.

Working with armed forces personnel has always been an important principle for Kimpton. We understand how difficult the transition can…

Greg Percival has joined the Kimpton Contracts team as Electrical Contracts Supervisor.

Life in the industry started back in 2003 when he began an apprenticeship with JF Foord. They were a company we’ve worked alongside for many years and this classic photo of our own Ron Tierney and Dave Gore outside LIPA in Liverpool, was one of the…

At Kimpton, we always aim to deliver work to the highest possible standards. It can seem tempting for some, when times are challenging, to cut corners here and there. But for us, doing so will always put our team at an increased risk that we’re not prepared to take. We have always avoided this way of thinking and this…

The Capital Building, or to use its original name, New Hall Place, is a 13 storey building in the Commercial District in Liverpool. Because of its sandy-coloured exterior and waterfront location, it’s often known locally, as the Sand Castle. Originally built in 1974 for Royal Insurance, it incorporates a section of the original ‘walkways in the sky’ project that…

The Kimpton team have recently completed an interesting job on the roof of Liverpool John Moores University, in the centre of the city and close to the river. The job was to replace the coils inside Carrier Aquaforce Chillers. These chillers feed the Air handling Units (AHU’s) which cool the whole of the eight-storey building with chilled air.

One…

Neha Sharma has joined the Kimpton Acoustic Engineering team as a Products and Materials Engineer. Her journey to join us has taken her halfway across the world and through some very interesting diversions.

Speaking to Neha about her career to date she said “…

Not to be put off by a lockdown, the Kimpton team pulled together like never before to help those who needed it most when the UK and the NHS in particular, was under serious pressure. Here are just a few of the initiatives the team took to help those who needed it most.

1. Visors for the NHS

Our own Managing…

The Incredible Edible movement started back in 2008 with the aim of creating kinder, more confident, more connected communities, all united around the power of growing food together. There are now over 100 members within the network in the UK and over 1,000 worldwide. It has made such an impact, that one of the two…

We’ve written a lot recently about reopening offices and the process you need to go through to properly recommission the air conditioning system in your office or workplace.

But that still leaves the question unanswered ‘is it safe (or advisable) to use my air conditioning in my office or workplace?’

Is it safe, am I putting my colleagues at risk…

In our previous post, we shared the detailed checklist for an entire HVAC system when you are preparing to reopen your office or business after a long shutdown.

One of the key elements to the checklist was to change filters throughout the system to ensure they were safe, clean and not harbouring bacteria that will have…