Request for Tenders for Carisbrook School and East Taieri School (the schools) – Air-air Heat Pumps Installation – Main Contractor

⁠⁠⁠Each school under the coal boiler replacement programme has had an individual heating solutions report completed by an independent energy engineer. The boiler replacement heating solution specified to each project school may include wood pellet or wood chip boilers, electric boilers, or high temperature heat pumps. These options are aligned with the Ministry’s Design Quality Learning Spaces (DQLS) Thermal Comfort guidelines.

Both reports form the scope for the specified project schools and include the details of the school’s existing heating system and the nominated replacement system. It is important to note that in light of further investigations since the feasibility reports’ recommendations for a pellet boiler replacement, it has been determined that an air-air heat pump installation is a potentially more fitting solution. The Ministry is now specifically requesting that the scope of works be centred around the installation of heat pumps.