About Arcade

Arcade is one of the leading Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) specialists in the UK, with over 50+ years’ experience of providing heating and cooling design, supply and installation services – and we’re on hand to apply our expertise to your next project.

From the printing industry to the retail sector, Arcade has worked with hundreds of businesses across the UK to develop full turnkey installations in building services, archive storage rooms, environmental control, and process engineering solutions. Clients have included Harrods, Vauxhall Motors, The Imperial War Museum Duxford, Historic England, and Crown Paints, to name just a few.

Flagship projects have involved various projects at CERN providing critical temperature controlled environments for detectors and instruments as well as environmental test cells. Defence projects for environmental controlled environments on a very large scale. Renovation of the British Film Institutes ‘Poster and Paper Store’ as well as other mission critical projects.

The Arcade approach

We’re proud to offer our clients full turnkey solutions across our suite of products and services. With our project management driven approach and ability to work as a partnership, we create a relationship built on trust. An initial consultation is time to discuss your requirements before sharing our recommendations. We outline a detailed project development plan, deliver a comprehensive design, build a fully operational solution and deliver a bespoke after care maintenance package too.

The sectors we work in continue to evolve – as do their HVAC, temperature control and engineering needs. More businesses are interested in decarbonisation, recovering heat and using alternative energy sources – we are happy to support these plans. We offer the very latest thinking and design best practice solutions for our clients, always seeking out new insights in our commitment to using the newest technologies.

We’re hugely committed to environmental issues too; working with clients to reduce their carbon footprint. We’re on a mission to optimise HVAC systems so that they consume less energy; and to reduce wider energy costs and impact – for us and our clients.

The investment we make in our wider training and development programme provides an outstanding opportunity for our team of engineers and project managers to enhance their own knowledge. This supports our drive to elevate our performance and improve our services. And as a growing business, we continue to recruit the very best team to be part of it. To learn more about a career with Arcade, visit our careers page.

By continuing to develop our in-house expertise, we’re confident that each and every Arcade client can benefit from the very best solution for their project.

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Arcade has been our go to Mechanical Contractor for a number of years. The team is diligent, amenable and proactive, and they have never let us down. Arcade takes on our more complicated mechanical, plumbing and BMS packages and are exceptionally capable at co-ordinating the M&E design alongside our design consultants. I would be more than happy to recommend Arcade for future work.

Thomas Biggins, Contracts Director, Conamar

Arcade recently designed, built and installed an air-to-water heat exchanger system for our heating/hot water system. They comprehensively detailed the return on investment, which enabled a swift approval from the Board of Directors. Then the project was accurately scheduled and executed and we’re reaping the rewards.

I can wholeheartedly recommend that you give Arcade a go for your next project.

A. Millington, Projects Manager, Precision Colour Printing Ltd

I was very impressed with Arcade. The knowledgeable team installed a new thermal oil heating and a water filtration system in a clean room used to manufacture  pharmaceutical products quickly and efficiently, working closely with my site team.

I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Arcade for similar projects.

Adam MacKenzie, COO CannaPHARMA Ltd

I have worked with Arcade over several years on some fast paced high prestige projects, mainly in the commercial building sector. Arcade are a reliable company and provide an exceptional service from design to installation.

John O’Donnell, Contracts Director at Krypton Building Services

NCS asked Arcade to be a business partner to help deliver successful, working archive and museum stores that provide genuinely protective environments for heritage collections. This means avoiding unnecessary and potentially damaging air conditioning and poor quality construction.

Arcade's expertise in designing, modelling and constructing passive climate structures along with a deep understanding of mechanical systems, makes them an ideal partner for NCS;  developing modern, forward-thinking approaches to sustainable conservation storage, reducing institutions' energy and maintenance costs, and contributing to a lower carbon footprint for the heritage sector.

Chris Woods, Director at National Conservation Service

The working environment of CERN on occasion imposes sudden changes to the detailed planning, but Arcade dealt with these well, showing excellent flexibility… the engineers were able to use their good design skills to define the technical solution and meet CERN’s requirements.

Michele Battistin, Section Leader in the Cooling and Ventilation Group at CERN

At Wenlock Spring, we worked with Arcade to undertake major upgrades to our bottling facility. The installation of a Biomass Boiler and ancillary services provides effective heating for our processes. Arcade's expertise on Process Engineering has allowed us to fully automate our Dosing, CIP cleaning and Tank control.

Bruce Orme, Director at Wenlock Spring

Projects

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