A complete M&E service
from 79 M&E.
79 M&E
In addition to lighting installation, 79 M&E provide a complete mechanical and electrical installation service to a range of industries, including fashion retail, leisure, banking, and health care. Our teams of expert engineers work out of a number of regional offices around the UK, while our Littlehampton head office oversees operations for the UK and Europe.
Key services
Electrical installation
79 M&E offers the full range of electrical installation services. Examples are:
Power
- New mains supply and substations
- Mains switchgear
- Power distribution
- Sub main supplies
- Bus bars
- Services containment
Lighting
- General lighting
- Emergency lighting
- Feature and flood lighting
- Car park and amenity lighting
- Energy conservation dimming systems
Alarms
- Fire alarm systems
- Public address system with voice evacuation
- Intruder alarm access control
- Door entry system
- Disabled persons W.C. alarm
Specialist
- Voice and data installation
- CCTV & access control
- Lighting protection
- Heating and ventilation controls wiring
- BMS systems
- Energy conservation systems
Mechanical Installation
79 M&E offers the following mechanical installation:
HVAC
- Air conditioning & VRV systems
- Ventilation Installations
- Supply and extract system with heating and 'comfort' cooling
- Full packaged control and BMS systems
Hot & Cold water installation
- Under floor heating systems
- Heat recovery units
- Ceiling-mounted radiant and radiator systems
- Designer radiators and trench heating
Gas installation throughout
- Condensing gas-fired boilers
- Combination heating and hot water boilers
- Centralised plant rooms
- Flue dilution systems
Sanitaryware
- Bathrooms, toilets, showers
- Disabled toilet suites
- Kitchen facilities
Design & Installation
79 M&E offers a full range of design services for Mechanical and Electrical installations:
- Substations - Mains switchgear
- Sub mains switchgear and sub mains cables
- Power installations
- Auxiliary power supplies
- General lighting Installations
- Floodlighting - parking - roadway and security lighting Installations
- Emergency lighting Installations
- Fire alarm Installations
- Fire alarm testing and inspection
- Emergency lighting Installation and testing
Testing Services
- Annual electrical portable appliance testing
- Annual hazardous storage testing
- Five-yearly electrical installation testing
- Fire alarm installation testing
- Emergency lighting testing
- Lighting protection systems
Electrical and Mechanical Maintenance
The 79 Group provides a comprehensive Mechanical and Electrical Maintenance service to the retail industry.
Our maintenance services include:
- Lighting maintenance
- Electrical maintenance
- HVAC maintenance
- Fire Alarm maintenance
- Fixed Wiring Tests
- Annual Electrical Portable Appliance Testing
- Fire Alarm Testing
- Emergency Lighting Testing
Lighting Maintenance Options
A planned approach to lighting maintenance:
Performance:
- Lighting operated to optimum design criteria.
- Uniform appearance for improved retail environment.
Electrically:
- Reduces damage to control gear caused by faulty operation of lamps nearing end of life, and associated fire risk.
- Issues relating to Health and Safety are constantly addressed.
Financially:
- Replacement can be timed to minimise disruption and reduce costs resultant from fewer call out visits.
Effectiveness of maintaining lighting.
The Facts:
- Lamps deteriorate over time.
- All lamps have a finite life.
- Light output deteriorates with use.
- Light output reduces due to an accumulation of dust and dirt.
The above equate to a minimum of a 70% reduction in light levels over a typical 3-year operational period. [Data taken from CIBSE codes]
Programmed Re – Lamps:
- Reduce expensive control gear failures.
- Reduce expensive call outs.
- Reduce disruption to the Store.
- Improve financial control.
- Improve lamp appearance – all lamps age together.
- Ensure the lighting installation is clean = optimum use of energy.
- Designed average luminance is maintained over the agreed maintenance cycle.
Seventynine Service Options:
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Bulk Re-lamping:
- Full estate re-lamp
Benefits:
- Uniform lighting across the sales floor.
- Cost effective use of labour.
- Ability to plan visits away from peak trading.
- Reduce interim maintenance.
- Ability to forecast spend or phase payment.
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Planned Maintenance Visits:
- Regular planned maintenance visits across the estate. Branches grouped together to increase efficiency.
- Full control over specification and quality of products used and workmanship.
- During visits engineers affect repairs to lighting outages and small electrical works against an agreed schedule of rates.
- Testing of the emergency lighting planned monthly in accordance with the current standards.
- PAT testing
- Fixed wire testing and inspections can be planned.
Benefits:
- No long-term outages.
- First time fix.
- Financial savings from call out charges.
- Predetermined visit schedule.
- Ownership by the Seventynine engineers.
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Reactive call outs:
- Call outs based on an agreed number of lamp failures.
- Call outs are made because of agreed Health and Safety issues.
- Call outs are made against deemed critical corporate operational requirements: i.e. window lights are not working
Issues:
- In consistent lighting performance across the estate.
- Reduced cost control.
- Financial planning is more difficult.
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Comprehensive Lighting Maintenance Option:
An all-embracing option that includes:
- Retail estate re-lamping during contract term.
- Lamp and gear guarantees
- Agreed service call program over the term of the contract.
- Additional re-lamping for short lamp life against manufactures specifications.
Benefits:
- Financial Control. Ability to phase payments monthly across contract term irrespective of the work done.
- Environmental management of the lighting asset
- Uniformity of the lighting performance across the estate.
Standards
All lamps supplied are Class A lamps.
All ballasts are produced to the current EN, IEC, and ANSI Standards and comply with the CELMA Energy Classification System.
All products are manufactured under the CE regulations.
All lighting and Electrical Products are processed under the WEEE directive.
Qualifications
NICEIC
All our M&E engineers are registered with the NICEIC (National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting). The NICEIC is the independent regulatory body for the electrical industry, assessing the technical competence of workers in order to protect the end user.
All NICEIC-registered engineers are assessed on a regular basis in order to ensure that they comply with certain safety standards and codes of practice.
CHAS
79 M&E is accredited by CHAS (the Contractors' Health and Safety Assessment Scheme). Participation in the CHAS scheme shows compliance with the most important elements of health and safety law. When you choose a CHAS-accredited installer, you don't need to carry out your own health and safety assessments, because the installer will be pre-approved.
Insurance
We have full employers' liability insurance and public & products liability insurance.