The heat is on at SWR with new boiler system!

THINGS are hotting up at Sir William Romney’s School in Tetbury – or they will be when a state-of-the-art heating system is installed in time for the new school year in September.

Thanks to a successful £180,000 emergency funding application to the Government’s Education Funding Agency, the school’s antiquated boiler system, now nearing a half century of service, will be replaced by six thermostatically-controlled linked-in boilers and an independent water heating system.

The new system will slash the school’s energy bills by 22 per cent, which equates to an annual energy saving of 176 00 kWh.

Work is planned to start on June 22 and that date can’t come soon enough for SWR’s premises manager Lawrence Halton.

“The present system is unreliable and has to be monitored almost on an hourly basis.

This new system will be network-linked and can be operated off-site if necessary,” he says.