Provision of 3 Spray booths including stripping out and reuse of existing facility components

The university has a requirement for three new spray booths in the Beacon Processing Lab in ITRC ground floor. There is an existing spray booth in the Wolfson building with a new extractor and the room is equipped for HVOF (gas and liquid fuelled) thermal spray, plasma spray, cold spray and suspension spray.

This project requires reusing as many existing parts as possible and to move the large extractor to the new facility in ITRC building.

This project is funded by Beacon monies.

Additional information:

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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No