Prefabrication

M&E services

M&E services, such as luminaires and air diffusers, can be factory fitted off-site. Installing these services in a factory environment ensures correct fitting without the risk of damage caused to either the ceiling tile or service.

The benefits of prefabrication are:

Installation Time: a general suspended ceiling would have the aperture tiles delivered, the services would be fitted and connected, then the ‘field' tiles are delivered and fitted. With pre-installed services installation time can be significantly reduced.

Cost: time to install services on-site allowing for wastage due to site damage adds cost to a project. Delivering the service already in the tile, ready for installation, can provide a more cost‑effective solution.

ISMs

ISMs (Integrated Service Modules) are rafts and modules that contain either active or passive Chilled Beams. They are generally manufactured and tested off-site before they are delivered and installed on site.

ISMs integrate a number of building services in addition to heating and cooling including; lighting, fire detection and control systems, data cabling, passive infra red sensors, white noise emitters and acoustic insulation.

BSRIA, (The Building Services Research and Information Association) highlighted that SAS ISMs typically take 25 per cent less time to install than traditional fan coil units suspended within a suspended ceiling system. This fast installation time was utilised at the Vodafone HQ, Newbury. The BSRIA report highlighted the high quality and aesthetic appearance of SAS ISMs, whilst providing real cost and time savings.

Suspended directly from the soffit, ISMs and System 600 acoustic lighting rafts, enable natural mass cooling to be achieved, see product sustainability for further details.