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Case study · Commercial solar PV

Oxford Science Park: installing — and carefully removing — rooftop solar.

Two phases on one of the UK’s leading science parks: a rooftop PV installation on new buildings, then a precise, phased removal so structural works could proceed without losing a single reusable panel.

ClientFeilo Sylvania UK

SiteOxford Science Park

Main contractorMACE

DatesAug 2025 · Jun 2026

ScopePV install & phased removal

System size455 kWp

Panels1,000 × 455 W

Solar panels on frames across the roof at Oxford Science Park

The challenge

A busy MACE-managed site with strict inductions, limited lifting windows and roofs shared with other trades. Panels had to be handled so they could be reused.

Our approach

A small, consistent crew with a named supervisor; every panel photographed and logged in the client’s app before removal; bespoke pallets, corner protection and wrapping for transport.

The result

Arrays installed to the layout drawings, then removed building by building on programme, with panels palletised for storage and reuse and redundant cable cleared to site skips.

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On the roof at Oxford Science Park

Real clips from site: the finished array from the roof, materials arriving by lorry, and fixing the clamps to the rails.

The finished array · Aug 2025

Materials arriving

Clamps onto the rails

How we built it

From frames to finished roof

Frames set out on the roof, materials lifted up by crane, panels fixed row by row — then the same care again when they came down.

Frames and rails lifted onto the roof by crane — Lifted up by crane

Galvanised frames set out across the roof — Frames set out

Rows of frames with the first panels fitted — First panels on

Frames on site with the MEWP at the building — Frames and MEWP

Panels fitted on a new frame — Row by row

Panels laid across frames with the site behind — Filling the frames

Engineer setting out on a standing-seam roof — Setting out on the roof

Optimiser fixed to a mounting rail — Optimiser on the rail

Finished rows of panels on a walkway roof — Finished rows

Panels with walkway grating and cranes behind — Walkways for safe access

Rails on a big roof with tower cranes behind — Rails across a big roof

Panels reflecting the evening sun — Evening light

Phase 1 · August 2025

Rooftop PV installation

Mounting systems set out from the layout drawings, then panels installed and wired across the new buildings’ roofs.

Frames set out to drawingGalvanised mounting frames positioned and fixed to the roof layout.

Panels installed & strungModules fitted, strung and cabled to the inverters.

Tested & documentedDC tests and records issued for handover.

Galvanised PV mounting frames laid out on the roof

Solar panels on frames at Oxford Science Park

Phase 2 · June 2026

Phased panel removal for structural works

Panels removed from pods and cassettes on Buildings 1 and 3, protected and palletised for reuse while MACE lifted the structures.

Photo-logged before removalEach panel recorded in the client’s app to prove condition.

Protected & palletisedBespoke pallets, crates, cardboard interleaves and corner protection.

Coordinated liftsPallets staged for MACE crane lifts and collection; redundant cable cleared.

Removed panel inspected and placed on a pallet

Engineer wrapping a palletised stack of panels

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