Working with Resipoint: 2. Design and specification

In high-rise residential construction, M&E challenges don’t always start onsite. Often, they creep in much earlier, during the design phase.

Tight utility cupboard spaces, intricate piping and wiring, long-term maintenance access… When these and other project requirements aren’t factored in early, complexity quickly escalates during installation, increasing the risk of delays and rework.

That’s why design is one of the most important stages of working with Resipoint: it’s the careful planning that leads to perfect execution.

What happens during the design stage?

We remain in close contact with your team, ensuring every technical requirement uncovered during our initial consultation is carefully coordinated before manufacturing begins.

Through regular Design Team Meetings (DTM), we collaboratively review layouts, equipment selection, service routes, and integration challenges as the design evolves.

To ensure complete clarity and accountability, all project requirements are captured and tracked through a detailed RFI process, helping ensure that every point is reviewed and resolved before sign-off.

1. Adapting to complex apartment layout

Modern residential developments rarely consist of one apartment type repeated hundreds of times: most schemes involve numerous layouts and spatial differences. Without expert planning, this will require an overwhelming number of unique utility room configurations.

At Resipoint, the design process focuses on simplifying this complexity wherever possible.

Starting from standardised design principles and a library of hundreds of detailed utility room drawings developed across previous projects, we work closely with your team to reduce unnecessary variation.

This often means reducing dozens of apartment layouts into a small number of repeatable utility room types.

“People often assume standardised designs are rigid, but they are actually highly adaptable. In reality, the only thing the resident sees is the doorway, the physical shape of the space behind it can vary significantly. This allows us to suit our configurations to almost any apartment design – as long as the utility room fits the footprint, we can adapt the internal layout to suit the project’s specific needs.”

Frazer Ross, Resipoint Technical Manager

2. Solving spatial constraints through coordination

Utility rooms are becoming increasingly complex. Within a very limited footprint, they must often accommodate heating systems, ventilation, electrical distribution, telecoms, metering, and other essential services.

New regulations are also complicating this challenge. The Building Regulations Part O, for instance, tends to dictate much larger MVHR equipment compared to just a few years ago.

Our design process addresses these issues before manufacturing begins. During the specification stage, our team carefully coordinates:

Electrical interfaces
Service zones
Manufacturer clearance requirements
Access panels and maintenance zones
Connection points for onsite integration

Using 3D CAD modelling and technical coordination throughout the DTM process, we identify potential clashes early and resolve them before they become costly onsite problems.

3. Designing compliance into your project

Compliance is another critical part of the design and specification phase. Modern utility rooms must satisfy a wide range of regulations, standards, and manufacturer requirements. These can include:

- Part M accessibility requirements
- G3 hot water safety regulations
- Manufacturer servicing clearances
- Electrical safety standards
- Fire stopping considerations
- Future maintenance access

If these requirements are treated as an afterthought, they may lead to delays and redesigns later in the programme.

Resipoint instead brings compliance into the design process from the start. This helps ensure that every utility room can be built to your exact specification and that it is also practical to install and maintain throughout the building’s lifecycle.

“Compliance regulations are central to the design because they often fix equipment into a specific position. There can be specific regulatory heights for consumer units, isolation valves, and meter boards. Our trick is to plot those ‘unmovable’ items first to ensure the layout is fully compliant with Part G3 or CDM regulations, and then we fit the rest of the kit around them in a way that ensures everything remains accessible for future maintenance.”

Frazer Ross, Technical Manager at Resipoint

4. Creating clarity before manufacturing begins

One of the biggest advantages of offsite manufacture is programme certainty, but this certainty only comes from clear design coordination.

Before production begins, we’ll deliver to you complete M&E schematics and General Arrangement drawings, where every aspect of the utility room is signed off collaboratively with your team.

These schematics will clearly define:

- - Layouts
  - Equipment specifications
  - Pipework routing
  - Electrical interfaces
  - Access requirements
  - Service zones
  - Finishes and configurations

Through this process, we cut uncertainty during later stages of the programme, reducing the risk of last-minute changes, trade clashes onsite, and inconsistent apartment quality.

We can also bring earlier certainty on long lead times, ensuring sufficient time to organise the supply chain and meet critical programme deadlines.

Ready to design M&E complexity out of your project?

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What’s next?

In our next blog, we explore Step 3: Benchmark review and sign-off. Before full production begins, you’ll review a “golden unit” built to the agreed specification, which will become the benchmark throughout the whole production process. This helps ensure you’re completely satisfied with the layout, quality, and service integration of our units.

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One unit, all the services, none of the hassle

The Resipoint ready-to-install utility room includes every service feature a modern property requires including heating, water, electrics, phone, internet, plus any number of customisable options. Having these services installed traditionally can lead to mistakes and costly delays.

From design to manufacture, testing to delivery, our end-to-end process means we do the work, not you. Resipoint is the most cost and time-effective solution to utility room requirements.

If you’re new to the concept of Packaged Utility Rooms we’d love to show you how you can save time, money and the headaches of project delays with the Resipoint Range.

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Keeping any construction project on track is difficult enough without the costly and frustrating process of having to put things right. Considering the multiple skill sets required, the shortage in labour and the pressure to get things done, it’s little wonder mistakes happen.

But those mistakes mean more time and more money, which subsequently create delays for the next phase, and the next and so on.

The Resipoint Packaged Utility Room solution is an offsite built PUR that combines all the service requirements a modern property needs into one ‘off the shelf’ unit. Designed, built and rigorously checked before delivery.

To discover a more efficient way to complete your next project speak to our team today on 01452 226022.

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Less waste, less loss, more productivity.

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Resipoint’s Packaged Utility Room answers the need for onsite innovation by delivering a technically efficient, aesthetically pleasing packaged utility room to suit your project’s needs.

Our ready-to-install utility rooms are designed to include every service feature a modern property requires including heating, water, electrics, phone, internet, and any number of customisable options.

The Resipoint PUR significantly reduces project snag times which drain man hours and create costly project delays. Speak to Resipoint today about our proven site solutions.

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With all the skills and responsibilities in one place, we can take a complex project from start to finish with just one phone call.

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The leaders of Packaged Utility Room manufacturing site in the UK

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At Resipoint we’ve invested heavily in product innovation and manufacture. Our extensive production capabilities mean we are ideally suited for mass unit production to exacting standards. From our base in Gloucester, we can design, produce and despatch large order requirements to meet the ever-increasing demand for packaged utility rooms.

Put your Packaged Utility Room requirements in the hands of a company with the expertise, scale and capabilities to ensure on-time delivery.

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At Resipoint, Quality Assurance gets a big tick

Our Quality Assurance procedure our second to none, a dedicated QA Manager will oversee every aspect of your PUR requirements initial design through to pressure and electrical checks. We produce and supply an extensive Q.A. Report with every unit despatched, outlining each part of your build with detailed data and project photographs.

At Resipoint we understand how critical quality assurance is to you and your project build, minimising onsite risk is paramount, which is why Q.A. is at the core of what we do.

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PUR with washing machine and tumble dryer

Designed in the UK, constructed by experts

Choose Resipoint for Packaged Utility Rooms

Understanding how construction, and construction sites work is at the heart of what we do. We know the challenges you face, we’ve seen the issues that occur, and we know the stories of what can go wrong. More importantly, we’ve created a solution that bypasses these concerns, giving you total peace of mind, project reassurance and answerability from experts.

Resipoints PUR offering is designed and manufactured by industry experts with specialisms across every sector of the construction market.

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Large, complex builds present enough challenges. But at least one aspect of your project can be taken care of offsite, and in its entirety, Packaged Utility Rooms. Our PUR offering means minimum risk and maximum efficiency. We have developed sophisticated and robust processes from design through to site delivery that ensure site success.

Resipoint are leaders in the design and development of packaged utility rooms, so nothing gets missed, ensuring a final delivered product with no hitches.

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