CHO BUILD Building Services Engineering

Built Square
and True

CHO BUILDING SERVICES LTD works from a Broughton Road workshop in Croft, Leicester, bringing the discipline of the joinery bench to the design and maintenance of mechanical and electrical building services. Every drawing is squared, every fix is checked, and every system is finished true to its intended performance, exactly as a joiner sets a dovetail or a mortise and tenon.

With deep roots in Building Services Engineering, HVAC Control Systems, Lighting and Power Design, Maintenance Planning Tools, Compliance Audits and Energy Performance Systems, we measure twice and cut once on every project we touch. Nothing leaves the bench until it closes square and draws tight under load.

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The Joints We Cut Most

A joiner never uses one joint for everything. A butt joint suits a temporary alignment, a lap spreads load across a wide face, and a dovetail resists pull in one plane. We engineer building services the same way, choosing the right arrangement of plant, duct, switchgear and control to match the forces and tolerances each building demands. Six service lines follow below, each matched to a woodworking joint that shares its logic.

Building Services Engineering

Where every system is first squared on a common paper plane, the way two boards are butted and trued before they are fixed. We lay out heating, ventilation, plumbing, drainage and electrical routes as one coherent drawing set so that nothing collides when it reaches the wall.

Design reviews, load calculations, layout co-ordination and specification writing hold the whole building in register from the first pencil line to final handover. More about Building Services Engineering

Compliance Audits

Before anything leaves our bench it must bear the stamp of the relevant regulation, the way a hand plane is trued against winding sticks before it touches a plank. A compliance audit is our set square held against your gas, electrical, water and fire safety paperwork.

We inspect records, identify the gaps that a careless crew would leave, and close each one with documented and dated evidence you can hand to an inspector without flinching. More about Compliance Audits

Energy Performance Systems

Every wasted watt is a shaving you have already paid for, and a dovetail held true is energy never thrown away. We measure what a building actually uses, model where it loses heat, and take out every loose joint without cutting comfort.

Insulation checks, metering analysis, heat recovery and control tuning together produce measured savings you can verify on the next utility bill rather than trust to guesswork. More about Energy Performance Systems

Lighting and Power Design

Light is a chisel: used well it carves a room into useful work and quiet rest. We design both the circuit backbone and the luminaire itself, balancing task illuminance against the running cost of every fitting.

Power layout, cable sizing, earthing, emergency lighting and switching logic are drawn to code and to comfort, so the finished room is as pleasant at dusk as at midday. More about Lighting and Power Design

Maintenance Planning Tools

The joiner who hangs a gate also oils its hinges, for a tongue held snug in its groove is a pair that never rattles. We build the schedules, registers and inspection routines that keep plant alive past the date stamped on its nameplate.

Planned maintenance, spares lists and task cards turn a costly emergency call into a quick and quiet repair at a predictable rate. More about Maintenance Planning Tools

HVAC Control Systems

A control system is the hinge that lets dampers swing and valves seat exactly in time with demand. Without it a boiler runs wide open while the furthest room swelters, the way a badly cut mitre gapes at the corner.

We specify controllers, actuators and sensors, then commission every loop until each space holds its own set point through the whole changing day. More about HVAC Control Systems

One Bench, Six Tools

CHO BUILDING SERVICES LTD treats a property the way a carpenter treats a length of timber: it has grain, it has resistance, and it gives its best result when you work with its nature rather than against it. Our Building Services Engineering begins with a survey of the fabric so that every system we add suits the walls, floors and plant rooms it will live in.

We never bolt a control system onto a building that cannot breathe. Each HVAC control system is tuned to the occupancy that truly uses the space, and each lighting and power design is sized for the circulations and tasks it must serve.

Measured, Not Guessed

Across compliance audits we verify the paper trail that proves safety, and across energy performance systems we prove savings on the meter rather than on a slide. Long term maintenance planning tools keep every joint we cut moving freely for years after handover.

Why Broughton Road, Croft

Our workshop is not a showroom; it is a working bench where we mock up fixings, lash down control panels and prove out routes before they travel to site. That bench discipline follows our engineers across Leicester and the wider central England footprint, but the standard we measure against never leaves the oak.

Sawdust on the Floor, Sense in the Drawing

CHO BUILDING SERVICES LTD welcomes tenders for new build, refurbishment and plant room replacement work. Bring us a plan, a budget and a deadline, and we will come back with a square, true and honest assessment of what your building needs.

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