Learning
curve
Early indications from post-occupancy monitoring of a new academy school
in the UK have highlighted strengths and weaknesses in the award-winning
project’s energy saving strategy. Carina Bailey reports
L
eigh Technology Academy in Dartford, Kent, has
been operational for more than 18 months. Built
on the site of a former technology college, the
academy features an array of energy efficiency
methods, such as passive cooling, a sealed façade, earth
tubes and bespoke wind turrets.
These approaches were aimed at cutting the school’s
carbon emissions by 65 per cent compared with the
government’s 2005 benchmarks.
But is the school, which specialises in sport, business
and technology, performing as anticipated? >
26 CIBSE Journal September 2009 www.cibsejournal.com
CIBSEsep09 pp26-30 leigh acadamy.indd 26 21/8/09 14:20:01
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