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Three schools open as
Plan to boost sustainble
housing in rural areas
part of city’s BSF scheme
The UK government has set
out plans for providing more
affordable housing. It said it n
The first phase of a £320m
investment in the Building
wanted to help create strong Schools for the Future (BSF)
and diverse rural communities programme in Sheffield, UK, has
that are able to tackle their own been completed. BSF aims to
unique challenges at a local level. transform education in the city by
A consultation document is providing either new or radically
due to be published soon on refurbished accommodation for
combining existing planning every secondary school by 2014.
guidance aimed at delivering Sheffield has 27 mainstream
sustainable economic secondaries and three special
development in urban and educational needs secondary
rural areas and town centres. schools. The first stage of the
As part of the plan, medium- programme was to design three
sized rural towns will be helped large schools – Yewlands, Silverdale
to develop sustainable new and Newfield and Talbot. All three Above: One of the first new BSF schools
neighbourhoods, partly through are now open and occupied. Key to open in Sheffield on the Newfield site.
a new £1m competition to features include: Left: the new hydrotherapy pool
encourage best practice. • Mechanical and electrical heating
and ventilation systems to maximise Faber Maunsell | AECOM’s
Guide issued on meeting occupier comfort, good levels of project manager, Gary Chesher,
carbon-cut target in 2010 daylight and intelligent lighting said: “We created ‘streets’ within
A new guide has been published controls to maximise energy the structure for ease of internal
aimed at helping businesses efficiency; circulation and flexible and
and organisations cut their • Heating and lighting are occupant adaptable teaching areas that are
carbon footprint. Published by controllable; security, Part L Modelling and flood future-proofed against changing
the Department of Energy and • A BREEAM Very Good Rating. risk assessment. pedagogy and fluctuating pupil
Climate Change , the handbook Consideration has been given Talbot is a Special Educational numbers.”
sets out who will be covered to minimising water consumption Needs school and is co-located on Sheffield City Council was one
by the Carbon Reduction and energy use and the ecology of the same site at Newfield. It was of the four Wave 1 Pathfinder
Commitment, to be introduced the sites has been protected and specially designed for 120 students, Authorities identified by the UK
in April 2010, and explains enhanced. and has a high staff-to-pupil ratio government under the £45bn BSF
what action can be taken. A Faber Maunsell | AECOM was and small classes. programme. The Sheffield Local
consultation on the regulations appointed to provide consultancy As well as general classrooms, the Education Partnership (LEP) is
underpinning the initiative has services for all building services, facility includes a hydrotherapy pool, a partnership between Sheffield
also been launched. civil and structural engineering, medical, dental and therapy rooms, City Council, Taylor Woodrow and
www.defra.gov.uk/ acoustics, BREEAM, fire and risk and a series of hygiene rooms, some Partnerships for Schools (BSF
carbonreduction engineering, ecology, advanced of which have shower beds. Investments).
Warning over aircon
inspections regime
Call to redefine renewables as ‘energy efficiency’
Building owners with air
conditioning systems are The Royal Institute of British reclassified through building Alan Shingler, head of
being urged to adhere to new Architects (RIBA) has called on regulations, so that they can be sustainability at Sheppard Robson,
inspection legislation or face the UK government to reclassify considered measures of energy who led RIBA’s response, said:
£300 fines. BESCA, the building district power and heating efficiency in buildings rather than “Whilst we welcome the overall
services accreditation body, schemes in order to meet the energy generation. approach, we believe that the
has warned that many owners target of achieving near-zero The institution believes that proposed legislative framework
are unaware of the European carbon new buildings. reclassifying allowable renewables should not be allowed to confuse
Union’s Energy Performance The call was made as part of as only ‘on-site’ would simplify the or dilute true zero carbon
in Buildings Directive (EPBD) RIBA’s response to the Definition planning process. This, it believes, development, which takes a
and legislation in the UK. This of Zero Carbon Homes and Non- could easily be overseen by a holistic approach to sustainability,
requires all air-conditioning Domestic Buildings consultation, planning authority based on an including embodied energy,
systems of more than 12kW to launched at the end of last year. objective assessment of available social and economic longevity,
be inspected by 4 January, 2011, RIBA has also called for a national roof area, development density and and environment and carbon
regardless of whether the system energy “trajectory” in order to orientation. reduction. It is imperative that
is in a commercial or domestic achieve the government’s near- RIBA calls for the planning the definition and its implication
property. The first deadline for zero carbon aim and decarbonise process be simplified to ensure become more transparent for
systems over 250kW passed in the UK’s energy supply. that all developments are able to both prospective purchasers and
January. RIBA proposes that biomass accommodate renewables when investors.”
www.besca.org.uk and district heating systems be they become viable. www.architecture.com
10 CIBSE Journal April 2009 www.cibsejournal.com
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