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disparities to occur is commissioning of building systems, and for this reason, the building commissioning will be carefully undertaken, with regular seasonal commissioning to check that systems are optimised. Building-specific user groups will be set up to regularly monitor both how the building performs, and how it is used, not just short term, but over its lifecycle. For example, is the building being utilised with the same profile as developed with the NHS in the design stages, and, if not, the groups will analyse how the change in usage may potentially impact on energy use and summertime overheating. This can be considered in line with
the intelligent room monitoring system being used throughout the building. Further opportunities may exist to change temperature set-points, operating temperatures, and lighting levels, to further reduce the operational energy consumption.
Data capture Engineers, AECOM, will use their in-house EVOL+ve
initiative to capture data and
improve understanding of the building from an occupant (people) and operator (energy) perspective. EVOL+ve
stands for:
Estimate: estimate operational performance at the design stage; Validate: validate performance based on ‘as built’ information; Operate: operational performance monitoring; Learn: obtain feedback on performance and record lessons learned; Visit: Visit the building and obtain feedback on performance; Educate: inform colleagues, designers, and clients, about lessons learned. The key objective of EVOL+ve
is to
evolve building designs based on these lessons learned, and ‘radically reduce energy use and carbon emissions in future buildings’. AECOM will produce a building ‘user manual’ to give building occupants an understanding of how the building should be used to optimise energy performance – for example, during mid- and summer seasons, opening windows early in the morning, not just when it gets ‘too hot’, to ensure comfort conditions are maintained.
Reviewing equipment and technology There is a long-term goal that as system equipment reaches the end of its lifecycle, a review of current industry technologies with potentially greater efficiencies will be undertaken; for example, future air source heat pumps with greater seasonal efficiency than those currently available may further improve the carbon emissions associated with the facility. The World Green Building Council definition of a Net Zero carbon building is ‘a building that is highly energy-efficient,
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and fully powered from on-site and/or offsite renewable energy sources’. The current design for the North East Hub is built on a number of Passivhaus-style design concepts, and the provision of onsite renewables through photovoltaics. By removing any reliance on natural gas (utilising an air source heat pump and thermal store for heating), the team has ensured that the building is 100% electrically powered – the first of its type for NHS GGC – which will allow it to benefit
from the very quickly decarbonising electrical grid of Scottish infrastructure.
Construction The first phase of work in Parkhead was the demolition of the vacant Parkhead Hospital and Anvil Resource Centre in August 2021. This allowed a full analysis of the soil conditions, and completion of the foundation design. Construction is now commencing, and the facility will be open to the public in 2024.
Gordon Gibb
Director at Hoskins Architects, Gordon Gibb, has a BSc Architectural Studies (Hons), and a Pg Dip Urban Design, and over 24 years’ experience in architectural practice, 18 of which have been with Hoskins Architects. He is responsible for leading multidisciplinary design teams on projects of varying scale and complexity in the cultural and healthcare sectors. He has significant expertise in guiding the development and documentation of high-profile, publicly-funded primary care projects, contributing to the practice’s award-winning healthcare portfolio.
Paul Carle
Paul Carle MCIOB, Construction director at BAM Construction, spent 14 years as an engineer and senior manager in the HM Forces (Army) Corps of Royal Engineers before joining BAM in 2007. At BAM he has risen from a project manager role through construction management to become a Construction director responsible for a number of schemes across Scotland. Other significant healthcare schemes that he has worked on include CRF Imaging, The ICE Building, Stobhill Mental Health Units, and Clydebank Health Centre.
Andrew Baillie
Andrew Baillie, Assistant head of Capital Planning at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, has an HNC in Construction Management, and is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists. Having qualified in construction management over 20 years ago, he has gained considerable experience in delivering many projects, either as an Architectural Technician or senior Project
manager. Over the last few years, as senior Project manager with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, he was responsible for delivering various multi-award-winning healthcare projects – including Maryhill Health and Care, Woodside Health and Care Centre, Inverclyde Mental Health wards, Stobhill Mental Health wards, and North East Hub, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde’s first Net Zero carbon facility. All these projects have been taken through the Hub procurement route. Prior to his time with the health board, he was the in-house technical advisor for the new £60 m Ayrshire College campus construction.
Gary Smithson
As Development partner and Health Sector lead, Gary Smithson, Associate director, Hub West Scotland, has supported the delivery of primary care facilities in the West of Scotland for the past six years, most recently including the newly completed Greenock and Clydebank Health Centres for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Before this, he worked on the procurement of various public sector construction projects in the UK and Ireland dating back to 2002. He led the development team on the North East Hub Project in collaboration with the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Capital Planning team, managing the project from concept design through to contract execution, and now on to construction.
Photo courtesy of Gillian Hayes
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