FSL’s Technical Services experts have underlined their capability after completing a project to design the air filtration unit system on the Royal Navy’s new CVFs.

FSL has completed the year-long project working under sub-contract to the German-based prime contractor, Imtech, for the ships’ CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological Nuclear) and HVAC (air conditioning) systems.

The system involves dozens of stations strategically placed throughout the ships and enhances FSL’s established CBRN retrofit expertise.

The project has also underlined FSL’s capability to provide both new build and through-life design solutions, utilising a team of some 60 designers that has trebled over the past few years as the company has developed its work within the Ministry of Defence’s Design Support Alliance and in other areas.
Expanding FSL’s design resources has involved major investment in hardware and software with the introduction of the 3-D Autocad Inventor system, used in line with other naval support companies.

Drawings are prepared for a wide range of capability upgrades as part of FSL’s ship maintenance activities and also FSL’s support of naval base infrastructure, such as modifications to dock caissons.

Technical Services Director Rod Passingham explains: “One of the biggest areas of expansion has been in the design function linked to the fit of CBRN systems and we have further developed our expertise by securing work in the nuclear and aerospace sectors.”