PUBLIC SECTOR SUSTAINABILITY
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING C ITS ENVIRONMENTAL CREDEN MONODRAUGHT NATURAL V
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£3.5million Collaborative Learning Centre (CLC), funded by Essex County Council, is helping to transform education facilities in Wickford, Essex.
Built on the site of The Bromfords School, accommodation includes a large hall, entrance area, large hall, small hall, theme room, video recording studio, external spaces and classrooms for workshops. The Centre is a collaborative project created to provide an invaluable resource filled with technology that children would not normally have at
school. It boasts hi-tech music, art and IT facilities for use by Wickford’s eleven primary schools, one special school and the local community. Up to 120 primary school children and their teachers use the facility every day.
Commenting on the
project, Kevin Harrison of Colchester-based architects Stanley Bragg Architects says: “From the start, an important part of the brief for the CLC was that it should be as
sustainable a building as possible and, working in conjunction with M & E consultants Peter Sharp Associates, many of the original aspirations of the building and its environment were met. A Monodraught natural ventilation strategy was therefore a natural choice in place of traditional opening windows, where noise from outside the building could be a distraction in spaces dedicated to learning, and similarly, noise from activities within the building – such as live shows, concerts, etc. – could be a nuisance to local residents.“ The Monodraught system also enabled the Centre to comply with a number of noise restrictions that were placed on the building, especially in specialist spaces where large groups of people rehearse and develop plays and musical events.
In addition, the original plans to use solar power were changed, so the Monodraught Sola-boost units provided an opportunity to include solar power into the building specification by a different route. The Sola-boost units have been especially beneficial during the extended spell of hot weather recently experienced as the long hours of sunshine meant that the Sola-boosts’ solar powered fans have
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PUBLIC SECTOR SUSTAINABILITY • VOLUME 1 ISSUE 3
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