Consultative Solution saves UCS £10,000

The award winning University Campus Suffolk Waterfront building, in the Ipswich Education Quarter, recently completed the first of three phases. The Campus aims to educate and house over 3,000 students over the next three years within their new state of the art facilities.

The Challenge

University Campus Suffolk (UCS) accommodates 3,000 students and over 300 staff. Our aim has been to create environmentally and user friendly, modern washrooms that complement this stunning new, innovative and bold building.

Our objective has been to make UCS a landmark facility within the University Campus environment.

UCS was looking for an innovative and efficient solution to hand drying, as the old college site had traditionally used paper towels.

The Solution

Albany provided a full consultation service which included a hygiene and environmental survey. This revealed that the Dyson Airblade hand dryer would perfectly match the specification and subsequent pressure to reduce costs. It would also improve hygiene and reduce the Campus’ carbon footprint by eliminating the sending of hundreds of tons of paper to landfill each year.

Albany advised and saved UCS significant water expenditure by installing all thirty washrooms with a water management system and also an enzyme based sanitizer into the entire urinal system.

All products were thoroughly tested and demonstrated to the key members of the facilities management team in the old building. Their feedback was fantastic and consequently they adopted the Dyson Airblade on a lease purchase option from Albany, which included installation, educational backboards (designed to educate the users) and a full repair and replacement warranty.

The Result

Albany’s consultative and solution based approach proved a direct cost saving of just under £10,000 per annum.

Such a large site would have needed to have been serviced on a daily basis. The Albany solution also eliminated the cost of hundreds of man hours required for the distribution of paper towels into dispensers and the collection and emptying of waste paper towels from disposal bins.

The students and staff now enjoy a quick, hygienic and environmentally friendly hand drying solution.

Over the next five years, UCS will also profit from the savings gained from the Albany fixed price lease purchase option for the Dyson Airblade hand dryer.