Case study IKEA - Livat Hammersmith

Background

With more than 400 stores operating in 52 countries, IKEA is the world’s largest and most successful home furnishing retailer. IKEA’s Livat Hammersmith offers a unique community meeting space, along with a host of shopping and leisure services, including the first UK IKEA City Store and national chains including H&M, Primark, Lidl, and Sainsbury’s. The 27,133 sq.m centre, hosts 33 retail outlets over two floors, serving a community of 1.2m and provides 604 on-site parking spaces. 

Brief

To provide planned and reactive, mechanical, and electrical maintenance services for the Livat Hammersmith Shopping Centre and the IKEA City Store.

Summary of works provided

Our on-site engineering team, supported by our mobile engineering force, ensures that the following assets are regularly maintained in accordance with SFG20 and ensures compliance with both UK legislation and insurance requirements.

• Gas boilers & gas fired appliances
• AC & chiller units
• Pump sets
• AHUs & ventilation equipment
• Water hygiene & plumbing services
• Grease traps
• PAT testing
• UPS & standby generators
• Drainage systems
• Building management systems (BMS)
• Solar PV
• Power factor correction
• Ground source heat pumps (GSHP)
• Biomass boilers
• Thermography
• Air compressors

Our dedicated static engineers ensure the continuity of critical services within the centre and store, reducing the risk of downtime or disruption to the Livat Shopping Centre customer experience. Ensuring assets are well maintained, safe and compliant with the latest regulations we are providing high quality, reliable and best cost solutions for IKEA’s Livat centre.

Our engineers provide day to day maintenance and compliance services, and undertake capital replacement works throughout the shopping centre and store, upgrading services to more energy efficient systems, as installed equipment reaches the end of its lifecycle. By doing this we contribute towards INGKA’s commitment to ‘becoming people and planet positive’.