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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 work is beginning in the Kingsway Tunnel on the £3m project to replace the gravity and pumped drainage pipework. The scale of the project is made clear when you look at the sheer scale of the tunnel system. There are two 9.6m diameter bores and a tunnel length of 2.5km. It’s the second-longest road tunnel in the UK,…

The team have just completed the replacement of three commercial boilers at the world-renowned Royal Liverpool Golf Club. The existing Atlantic gas-fired boilers had become extremely unreliable and two of them were inoperative. This left the club in the difficult position where the remaining boilers…

The Kimpton Maintenance Team have just completed a boiler room replacement project in Liverpool and it’s a little different to most of the many thousands we have completed before. Here’s the story.

The Frances Mary Lescher Building (FML) within the Hope Park campus is the centre of the academic, administrative and conference activity of the…

The Kimpton Service team recently completed a boiler replacement for the amazing Claire House Children’s Hospice in Wirral. In their own words, they help seriously and terminally ill children live life to the full by creating wonderful experiences and bringing back a sense of…

The Turner Home (formerly The Turner Memorial Home) on Dingle Lane, Toxteth Liverpool was founded in 1884 for the care of sick and disadvantaged men. It has continued to function in this role as a registered residential and nursing home for men ever since. The building is listed by English Heritage as a designated Grade II listed building. This…

At Kimpton Energy Solutions, we are continually striving to improve and develop the level of service we provide to our clients. In 2008 we teamed up with a software company to develop our own Field Service Management (FSM) software. The aim was to help us to deliver a more consistently professional service to our customers whilst allowing us to…

We are delighted to announce the Maintenance Contract Renewal for Chester Zoo for the 30th year in succession.

Chester Zoo – The North of England Zoological Society was founded in the early 1930’s and has grown…

The Air Conditioning Team at Kimpton have been busy and just completed a contract to completely renovate the air conditioning system at Bangor Job Centre Plus.

It was a two-stage process, with the first part seeing us safely decommission and remove the existing Toshiba system which consists of six R22 based units.

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As experts in all types of heat pumps – in this case a Gas Absorption Heat Pump, Kimpton Service and Maintenance are pleased to announce that we have secured the ongoing maintenance contract at University Church of England Academy in Ellesmere Port. 

UCEA is a secondary school based in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire that was created back…

We recently completed the installation of two cold water tanks of 20,000 and 30,000 litres at The Capital Building, Liverpool. The old tank cold water system was neither big enough or able to meet the changing demands of the refurbished building. The new tanks have been designed to improve resilience, offer far greater sureness of supply and to comply…

When you have a large commercial, industrial or multi-story living accommodation without sufficient isolating valves around the various circuits, it will typically be impractical to shut off the flow of heating or hot water to the whole building to carry out pipe repairs and alterations.In these instances, it is sensible to use pipe freezing to prevent…

In preparation for the winter break where we all ‘enjoy’ a few days of rest and recuperation with our families, we wanted to share our Christmas opening times for December and January 2017.

Kimpton Energy Solutions

We close on Friday 22nd December and reopen on Monday 8th January fully refreshed and ready to go.

Kimpton Maintenance Solutions

Opening times are slightly different here and…

Have you invested in a Planned Maintenance Contract for your business? If the answer is no, why not? They are the perfect way to stay in control of your business and ensure that problems don’t arise in the future. Whether you work in an office, factory or school, PMCs are the right choice for you!

Business continuity

If something goes…

Planning is extremely useful for business owners, no matter what industry you work in. You’ll probably find that much of your time is taken up managing your team, in meetings and speaking to your customers, and that maintenance often falls to the very bottom of your list. That’s where our planned maintenance contracts come in!

We offer two types of…