BMS · BMS integrator (confidential)
One BMS panel design, eight cinemas
A Trane controls integrator was upgrading the building controls at cinemas across the UK. Every site needed the same BMS panel, in time for its own programme. We designed it once and have manufactured it eight times.
- Customer
- Trane controls integrator
- Sites
- 8 cinemas for a UK chain
- Controls
- Trane Tracer SC+, UC600, XM70
- Typical delivery
- 3 to 4 weeks from order
- Panel
- 800x800mm wall-mounted BMS panel
The challenge
The same BMS panel needed at cinema after cinema, each one on time for its own site and identical to the last.
What we supplied
One standard Trane BMS panel, drawn once and manufactured eight times, with the touchscreen and mode keyswitches on the door.
The result
Eight panels in nine months, most despatched within three to four weeks of the order.
The requirement
A standard BMS panel for each cinema in the programme, built around Trane controllers supplied by the integrator: a Tracer SC+ supervisory controller, a UC600 controller and an XM70 expansion module. Each panel needed a touchscreen on the door, keyswitches for setback, holiday and extension modes, a 4G router so the site could be reached remotely, and the drawings on the integrator's own Trane template.
The constraints
- Sites came up on their own dates, so orders arrived in ones and threes, never as one batch.
- Identical panels, so engineers find the same layout and terminal numbers at every cinema.
- Controllers free issued by the integrator, so each build was planned around their arrival.
- Drawings on the integrator's own Trane template, ready for their handover packs.
What we built
We drew the panel once and then built it again for each site, changing only what the site needed. Each is an 800x800mm wall-mounted panel with a 25A isolator, the three Trane controllers, interposing relays, MCB-protected supplies, two RCD sockets for the commissioning engineer, the router and labelled terminals for the field wiring. Every one was routine tested in Stoke-on-Trent and sent with its wiring diagram and test certificate.
Delivery
Most panels went out within three to four weeks of the order. When the integrator needed a different Trane panel for another job, we drew it from the same design and despatched it in 20 days, two weeks before it was needed.
The outcome
Eight cinemas between January and September 2026, each with the same panel. A new site is quoted from the last one plus any extras, and goes straight into production on a drawing that has already been made and tested several times.
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“Normally we'd expect a 6 to 8 week lead time on a panel build. In this case it was done in 12 working days, which is a testament to G&G Controls and SSE working together.”
- Wiring diagram, test certificate and 12-month warranty with every panel
- Built to BS EN 61439 and BS EN 60204-1 in Stoke-on-Trent
- We reply during working hours, usually the same working day
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