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First ever BREEAM Outstanding Award in higher education sector
L
ancaster University has delivered the UK’s first higher education building project to be rated ‘outstanding’ by the environmental performance measure BREEAM for both design stage and post construction review. The University has been awarded this distinction for its
£10m Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts (LICA). The innovative, timber-framed building is home to Art, Design, Film, Music and Theatre Studies as well as LIVE@LICA which combines three public arts facilities; the Peter Scott Gallery, the Nuffield Theatre and the International Concert Series. LICA is an inspiring new facility, which offers a range of flexible performance and workshop spaces to support teaching and research in Art, Design, Film Studies, Music and Theatre Studies. The facility also houses Imagination at Lancaster, an exploratory design research lab. Research in LICA is rated in the UK’s top 3 for quality with 80% classed as world or internationally leading. The highly innovative pre-fabricated and cross- laminated timber structure provides high levels of air tightness and enabled a quick and safe construction programme.
Mark Swindlehurst, Lancaster University Director of
Facilities said: “We see BREEAM as the yardstick for the environmental performance of our buildings and the effect they have on the wider environment. In 2005 we set out a strategy which had strict criteria to ensure that any
new buildings on campus met the BREEAM Excellent standard and that any major refurbishments met BREEAM criteria of Very Good and in all buildings that have been completed to date we have met those targets.” In addition to the ‘Outstanding’ LICA building, to date the University has delivered nine BREEAM excellent new build developments, including the £20m Sports Centre opening in August.
The University is committed to sustainability and to reducing its carbon footprint. A wind turbine will be built on campus in 2012, and is just one project amongst many that the University is implementing or planning to implement to cut carbon emissions. Other projects include replacing the University’s main boilers, installing a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Unit and plans to install a biomass boiler. The University is expanding its carbon saving competitions for students and is currently targeting staff in order to enable them to improve energy efficiency in their work areas as well as implementing dozens of small scale energy and water saving projects.
Completion of all these projects over the next three years would reduce carbon emissions by over 30%, well on the way to the very challenging Higher Education sector target of cutting carbon emissions by 43% by 2020.
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Home Office is rolling out the system across 90 per cent of its estate.
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INTERSERVE WINS £6.5M BUILDING MAINTENANCE CONTRACT WITH THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM
Interserve will start working with Lewisham Council this month, delivering building maintenance and management services. The contract will be supporting 158 buildings throughout the borough in south east London, including a mix of non-residential sites such as corporate buildings, offices, depots, libraries and community centres used by the 250,000 residents. The contract has the potential to extend until 2018. The London Borough of
Lewisham took the decision to
outsource to Interserve as it wanted a partner who could support its building
rationalisation programme, improve the condition of assets and enable flexibility to adapt and share services going forward.
The contract, procured through the Buying Solutions Facilities Management Framework, enables the council to procure cost- effectively and source the best partner for its needs. Interserve will provide a range of services including management and
administration, health and safety, risk and business- continuity management, environmental management, helpdesk and computer-aided facilities management, and building maintenance services. www.local-
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THE LIBRARY OF BIRMINGHAM – A WORLD-CLASS LIBRARY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Qubiqa UK is proud to announce they have been chosen by the Library of Birmingham to supply the mobile, static and 2-tier shelving for what is described as ‘one of the world’s most exciting and ambitious cultural projects’.
This impressive project to supply the Electronic mobile shelving is worth between £3.1-£3.4m and the library is expected to open to the public in 2013.
Qubiqa has built up a very impressive portfolio of clients in both the library and heritage sectors in the last several years including installing systems in a number of high profile new builds and refurbishments. This unrivalled
track record together with the state of the art system functionality, impressed both the main contractor and client alike.
The users were looking for a system that could meet and embrace the changes, both technological and physical, which will be demanded in the new library. The Qubiqa systems will be used for both the Cultural (library) and Heritage (historic archives) collections as well as having smaller systems which will be used by the public in an open access environment on different floor levels.
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