Barramundi Fish Farm, Lymington
| Client: | Aquabella Group PLC |
| Type: | Fish Farm |
| Value: | £1,505,000 |
| Duration: | Jun 05 - Feb 06 |
| Architect: | The Bush Consultancy |
| M&E Consultant: | Cameron Taylor |
| PQS: | Paradigm |
| Contract: | JCT'98 with Contractors Design |
This unusual project in Lymington, Hampshire was the conversion of an existing warehouse into an indoor warm water aquaculture facility for the farming of Barramundi.
This facility is the first of its kind in the United Kingdom and is the largest warm water indoor fish farm in the Northern Hemisphere. Due to its unique science, specialist plant and equipment was shipped in from Norway. The concept design was prepared by AquaOptima, a Norwegian company. The 60,000ft² warehouse houses 48 tanks containing a total of 2.5million litres of water, served by pipework up to 1 metre in diameter. The entire farming facility, which is computer controlled and run by approximately nine staff, produces 400 tonnes of fish per year.
Trinity were appointed as design and build contractor for the specialist pipework systems along with the conventional HVAC and electrical systems. The scope of the works included huge oxygenated water and effluent water systems circulated via 1.0 metre diameter MDPE pipework to the fish growing tanks and water treatment plant. Specialist plant for water treatment was served by the gas systems we installed including oxygen, nitrogen and ozone.
