MEP Concepts
Project was a lesson in how to overcome challenges
Designing a new school boarding facility complete with a helter skelter is defi nitely pushing the boundaries – meeting a brief to deliver a building that meets modern, low-carbon targets while remaining in keeping with its historic surroundings demands similar creativity. MEP Concepts undertook a project at Bilton Grange Preparatory
School, a feeder school for Rugby School, which has been in its current location since 1887. T e current Prep School building began as a farmhouse and was redeveloped for use as a school by renowned 19th Century architect and designer Augustus Pugin. Recently, the school commissioned a state-of-the-art co-
educational boarding house facility that had to blend with Pugin’s gothic buildings on the same site. T e client’s brief was to deliver a low-carbon construction development with an aspiration to achieve net zero in terms of carbon emissions or as close as possible.
MEP Concepts provides clients with technical advice for building
services engineering, sustainability and energy consultancy in the construction and development of property in the new build and refurbishment sectors. On this occasion, the team were asked to come up with a solution
that worked with the design, a non-standard confi guration that included providing a fairytale castle with turrets and a helter skelter slide while at the same time ensuring a comfortable and modern lifestyle for boarders without compromising Pugin’s original design. T e new building regulations Part L calculation methodology
introduced signifi cant challenges and one of the fi rst tasks for MEP Concepts was to identify the implications of the new guidelines. T e initial concept strategy was based on gas fi red condensing boilers providing the building’s heating and hot water requirements. Use of conventional gas fi red heating solutions, although proven and reli- able, would not achieve the target energy performance and carbon emissions reduction required for a low or net zero carbon building. T e operations team for the school were, however, equally uncertain about adopting new technology solutions for the boarding house and how these would perform in practice.
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