classrooms
A new volumetric building has been installed at Reading University to expand the nursery facilities for children of students and staff.
The entire structure is based on 28 bays, providing two wings linked by an entrance corridor.
The flat-pack nursery
T
HE NEW Little Learners day nursery on the Whiteknights campus replaces facilities used by the Student Union’s
day nursery since 1999 – extending provision from 40 to 94 places for children aged from three months to five years. The building was manufactured by
Terrapin and assembled on site during the summer break last year, to provide a single storey facility of 678 sqm. The brief from the University’s architects, the AED Practice, required the building to match the adjacent Carrington Building, with a flat roof, pale render and grey powder- coated windows and doors. Other criteria included items such as a waterproof membrane roof blanket, cladding to blend with adjacent buildings, an integrated courtyard canopy and sun pipes.
Carbon offset
The resulting building has two wings, linked by an entrance corridor, with the entire structure based on 28 bays 2.568m wide and either 6.168m, 8.568m or 12.336m long meeting the aesthetic
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stipulation. Terrapin also planted broad leafed trees in the campus grounds to offset CO2 emitted by the lorries that delivered the building in a flat pack form on the 150-mile round trip between Milton Keynes and Reading. This limited the number of deliveries to 20 – along with the resultant CO2 emissions. With production of the Unitrex units
for external walls, floors and roof underway at Milton Keynes, Terrapin moved on site for three weeks of foundations and other ground works. Once site works were complete, the units were delivered and craned into position. The eleven-week construction phase also included installing the external cladding, partitioning the interiors using plasterboard on galvanised steel studs with acoustic insulation in the voids, installing suspended ceilings, flooring and decoration, electrical and plumbing services, and landscaping.
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Factory built
benefits
• Panels or modules are built under controlled conditions on a production line, assuring fine tolerances
• Panels or fully fitted modules are transported by road to site, where they are simply lifted into position by crane and connected to services
• Time on site and numbers of deliveries are reduced and, as a general rule, unaffected by weather considerations
• There is less disruption, noise and interference to the day to day operation of the campus and its occupants.
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