The boiler house arrived as a finished block on a low-loader and was set in place by a mobile crane — a modular design needs no lengthy on-site construction. The unit consists of six boilers of one hundred kilowatts each, a multi-level safety system and a water treatment complex.

Bucha City Council announced the launch on its Telegram channel. The equipment was manufactured by the Ukrainian producer UkrInterm.

The installed boiler module next to the school fence
The module was installed within hours: all the equipment is already mounted inside at the factory. Photo: Bucha City Council

Runs without staff on site around the clock

The boiler house is fully computerised and runs automatically. That means an operator does not have to be on duty beside it day and night: the system maintains the temperature, monitors pressure and shuts down if readings drift. Minimising the human factor at a rural site is a question of reliability rather than convenience.

Six boilers instead of one large one bring another advantage. In mild weather only some of them run, in a hard frost they all switch on; if one fails, the heating does not stop. The water treatment complex extends the life of the equipment — limescale is what most often kills boilers in village schools.

The second such boiler house in the community

This is already the second facility of its kind in the Bucha community installed under the energy resilience programme. The project was carried out with co-financing from Bucha City Council and support from the Kyiv Regional Military Administration.

The logic of the programme is simple: instead of piping heat to remote villages from far away, the community places autonomous sources right beside its educational facilities. The school and kindergarten then do not depend on the condition of long heating mains or on what happens to the grid dozens of kilometres away.

Workers on the roof of the module attaching the crane slings
Installing the module: workers attach the slings before the lift. Photo: Bucha City Council

Preparations for the heating season continue

"We are working, preparing for winter and overcoming all difficulties together," Bucha City Council said, commenting on the launch of the facility.

Neighbouring communities in the district are moving the same way: in Irpin the foundation has already been poured for a modular boiler house next to the Vesnianka kindergarten. For the Kyiv region, which spends every winter under the threat of strikes on the energy system, autonomous heating in schools has become a separate line of preparation.

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