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Use of BIM software was vital to ensure all aspects of the design were coordinated, without clashes
‘A mock up of one section of the curtain wall was blasted with air and water using an old aircraft engine’
He added: “The standard essentially added an extra step to
the design development process and instead of drawing a detail then sending it to the subcontractors to work up, it had to go through an extra layer of checking for thermal bridging and airtightness and ensuring everyone understood what was required.” The Centre of Medicine brings together the Schools of
Medicine, Health Sciences and Psychology under one roof for the first time, with facilities for more than 2,350 staff and students. It comprises three towers of three, four and five storeys,
linked by an atrium. The ground and first floors are devoted to communal student and public areas, including lecture theatres, teaching spaces, open access study areas and a cafe. The upper storeys house academic offices and research labs. The centre is characterised externally by its chunky
white-rendered colonnade, green wall, and curtain walls with narrow slotted windows and red brick slips. The design draws inspiration from other notable buildings on the campus, including the world-famous Engineering Building, completed in 1963 and designed by Sir James Stirling and James Gowan,
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and the brutalist concrete Charles Wilson Building designed by Sir Denys Lasdun.
Estate of change
The client’s brief called for best in class energy performance from the outset as part of an overarching strategy to reduce carbon emissions on the estate by 60 per cent by 2020. Chadwick told ADF: “All of their estate was going in the
wrong direction, so they wanted to make a mark and an exem- plar demonstrating their future environmental ambitions.” The original aspiration was for a carbon neutral building
more reliant on renewable energy sources, but as the brief developed and the project expanded in size without a corresponding hike in budget, a focus on Passivhaus principles was identified by building services consultant Couch Perry Wilkes as a more cost effective option. By reducing energy requirements, Passivhaus enables
potentially smaller and cheaper quantities of renewable technologies to be specified. Passivhaus standards are technically onerous, air tightness had to be kept down to 1.0m2
/(hr.m3 /k.
“With Passivhaus you need to know exactly what you are going to build before going to site because you could rapidly
), no mean feat in a
building of such size and complexity. The roof, walls and ground floor slab had to be highly insulated, with U-values of 0.13 W/m2
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