Bond Bryan-Designed University for the Creative Arts New Teaching Block Starts on Site in Epsom
National architecture practice Bond Bryan has designed a new facility
for the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Epsom campus, the construction of which has started on site. The three-storey, 1900mÇ teaching block will be completed in spring 2011 and is hoped to be the first project in an ongoing development of the entire campus. It will be the first university building in the UK to be certified under the new Higher Education designation of the British Research Establishment, Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM: HE). Both the University and Bond Bryan are committed to achieving the ‘Excellent’ standard. The design was developed after Bond Bryan carried out a feasibility study and a review of the Master Plan for its entire Epsom campus. Bond Bryan found that the UCA’s needs had moved on since the original Master Plan was first prepared in 1998. The practice undertook a series of conversations and workshops with students, academic staff and management to establish the needs and ambitions of the key stakeholders in order to deliver a more appropriate Master Plan and building solution. Colin Chance, UCA’s Director of Estate Services, says: “The University is delighted that this will be the first building to be certified under the new BREEAM: Higher Education assessment criteria. The Board of Governors and Executive are keen to achieve as high a standard as possible in support of the recently approved Carbon Management Plan that the University has developed in conjunction with the Carbon Trust.” Greham Raynham, director at Bond Bryan’s Southern studios, says the
new building represents a redefinition of the campus with an enhanced identity, expanded facilities and improved educational offer: “This brand new learning and teaching space has been designed to give every student direct and open access to all disciplines and processes within the University. For this we have developed a ‘marketplace’ area which is accessible and useable by the various disciplines. UCA has ambitions by
2020 to be recognised worldwide as a leading university for enhancing the status of the Creative Arts and requires space for art and design activities and processes, so we have located these on the ground floor in the social hub and ‘Market Place’ as well as on the first floor alongside new Digital Media activities.
“The building includes a 200 seat lecture and performance theatre, a
new Digital Media centre and new teaching studios for Fashion and Graphics. We have also rejuvenated the underused central courtyard space by opening up a shop window to the ‘Market Place’ area and accessing the new facility through the court yard making it a lively and active space.”
SCS Takes Control of University of Sussex Building Management
One of the UK’s leading providers of ventilation, building management and smoke control solutions has completed a £250,000 building management system (BMS) for the University of Sussex. The SCS Group designed and installed an integrated system that
controls the ventilation, air conditioning, under-floor heating and hot water systems at the Brighton campus. Contractors Essex Services Group (ESG) originally specified three
separate systems for the project - a building management system (BMS), window actuators and passive ventilation - with the three elements interfaced through the BMS. The SCS Group was awarded the contract after designing a completely integrated building services package that simplified the installation and reduced costs by 35%. The University of Sussex educates over 10,000 students and the new
Education 10 Puts Psychological Wellbeing at Centre of Design
Nightingale Associates led a special education design seminar at this
year’s GovNet Education 10 conference. Nightingale Associates practice education lead, Adrian Swain, and architect, Martin Wickes, led a seminar exploring the relationship between special education and mental healthcare at the GovNet Education 10 conference this month. The presentation titled, ‘Special Education: Designing for Psychological Wellbeing’, gave an analytical overview of key case studies in both sectors, including a range of pragmatic solutions to consider when designing for SEN provision. Nightingale’s practice education lead, Adrian Swain, said: “In healthcare, mental health trusts are seeing the wellbeing of service-users rapidly improve because architects are making great advancements in techniques that provide a holistic approach to the creating an environment in which children respond to in a positive way. Many of these same design intervention techniques can be integrated into the classroom to enhance the learning environment as a means of providing a child with not only a sense of safety, structure and growth , but creating as positive influence on the their achieving maximum potential. The Education 10 conference offered us the opportunity to share our expertise in both the education and mental health sector.” In the current economic climate, education budgets are placed under constant pressure. This conference provided a forum for discussion on how practitioners, agencies and government departments can work together to ensure that the education system does not fall foul of a lack of funding on its journey to create world class learning opportunities for all. Keynote speakers included chief executive for Partnerships for Schools, Tim Byles, director of education and care for Ofsted, Patrick Leeson and assistant general secretary at NASUWT, Dr Patrick Roach.
£10-million Fulton building in the heart of campus is due for completion by summer 2010. The new building will provide 3,000 square metres of teaching space across three floors, including two 160-seat lecture theatres and a mix of 22 different sized seminar rooms. The building has been designed to minimise impact on the
environment, with concrete floors acting as heat sinks and a natural ventilation system comprising of 24 roof-mounted extract terminals with cross talk attenuators to prevent noise transmission between classrooms and boost fans for extreme summer conditions. Automatic dampers control ventilation rates in the lecture rooms,
and 100 automatic actuators installed on high-level windows provide fresh air and ventilation to the common areas including an atrium. SCS Commercial Director Chris Jones said: “Natural ventilation has been proven to improve the wellbeing and concentration rates of a building’s occupants, ultimately reducing absenteeism. As well as being energy efficient, they are also completely silent and are guaranteed to work for the lifetime of the property which makes passive ventilation the perfect choice for educational establishments. “We have built up a real specialism in the education building sector and clients are benefiting from our ability to provide holistic solutions for their entire building services needs.” The SCS Group recently completed work on a passive ventilation
system for a new building at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff.
Chris concluded: We were really pleased with the innovative solution that we devised
for this project. We not only reduced costs significantly against the original specification, but were able to cut installation time down to three weeks as the system was entirely integrated. Having one contractor managing the entire project rather than three separate ones also improved efficiency on site.”
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