{"id":33189,"date":"2025-11-11T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ocu-moves-into-district-heating-with-valmech-buy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:23:19","slug":"ocu-moves-into-district-heating-with-valmech-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ocu-moves-into-district-heating-with-valmech-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"OCU moves into district heating with Valmech buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-503273\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"559\">The deal strengthens private equity-backed OCU\u2019s integrated energy and utilities offering and establishes a dedicated platform for delivering district heating schemes, with scope to expand into international markets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"561\" data-end=\"832\">Founded in 2016, Valmech operates out of a manufacturing workshop in Oxspring on the outskirts of Sheffield delivering district heating installations, plant rooms, and mechanical engineering services.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"561\" data-end=\"832\">The business, which employ around 17 staff, will continue to be run by its current management team within the OCU Group.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1012\" data-end=\"1279\">Adrian O\u2019Sullivan, COO and managing director of OCU Utilities, said:\u00a0 the combination of Valmech\u2019s in-house manufacturing and mechanical know-how with OCU\u2019s civils and pipeline expertise \u201ccreates a full value-chain platform for growth in the district heating market\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1281\" data-end=\"1496\">Valmech founder Simon Waller added: \u201cPartnering with OCU opens an exciting new chapter for Valmech and will help us deliver even more comprehensive services as the UK invests in modern, low-carbon infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/2.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Morby\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2025\/11\/11\/ocu-moves-into-district-heating-with-valmech-buy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The deal strengthens private equity-backed OCU\u2019s integrated energy and utilities offering and establishes a dedicated platform for delivering district &#8230; <a title=\"OCU moves into district heating with Valmech buy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ocu-moves-into-district-heating-with-valmech-buy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about OCU moves into district heating with Valmech buy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}