Buildings that never stop, and cannot be allowed to go cold.
Nursing homes, care facilities, clinics and primary care centres.
Healthcare buildings run continuously, maintain tight temperature and ventilation requirements, and cannot stop operating while somebody works on them. That combination makes them expensive to run and demanding to upgrade.
ENCON works across healthcare and care settings — nursing homes, care facilities, clinics, primary care centres and medical practices. The work covers fabric upgrades, heating and hot water, ventilation, controls, lighting and solar PV.
Hot water is usually the headline. Care settings use enormous volumes at controlled temperatures, with legionella management requirements that put a floor under how the system can be operated. Getting hot water generation and storage right is often where the biggest savings sit.
The design starts from the operational requirements, not from an energy model.
Healthcare buildings bring requirements that shape every decision:
None of this makes upgrading impossible. It means the design has to start from the operational requirements rather than from an energy model.
From insulation to heat pumps, ventilation and more. Improve comfort, lower bills and increase your BER rating.
New builds, extensions and deep retrofits, fully managed from design and planning through to construction and completion.
High-quality solar panel systems for homes, farms and businesses. Lower energy costs and gain energy independence.
Energy upgrades and construction solutions for commercial, agricultural and public sector projects.
We plan healthcare projects around the building’s operation, not our convenience. That means working in small sections, maintaining heating and hot water continuity throughout, agreeing noise windows, and coordinating with clinical and care staff on access to occupied areas.
Temporary provision is planned in from the outset where a system has to come offline. No care setting should be without heating or hot water because a contractor didn’t think ahead.
Hot water generation and storage, heating controls and zoning, fabric upgrades to reduce a continuous heating load, and solar PV to offset a daytime demand that never really drops. Heat pumps are increasingly viable in care settings, though hot water temperature requirements need designing for carefully.
Healthcare clients need commissioning records, compliance documentation and O&M information that will stand up to inspection. That’s part of handover, not an optional extra.
Yes. It’s the normal case. Works are sectioned, heating and hot water continuity is maintained, and access is coordinated with care staff.
It can, but legionella temperature requirements need designing for explicitly — usually with a hybrid or supplementary arrangement. We’ll model it for your building.
Usually hot water generation and storage, followed by heating controls. Fabric matters more in continuously heated buildings than in intermittently used ones.
Yes — commissioning records, certification and O&M documentation as standard at handover.
Noisy operations are scheduled into agreed windows. We plan this with you rather than around you.
Call 051 850722. Heating and hot water continuity is planned in from the start, not hoped for.
