sustainable buildings & energy management


community resource The building has transformed the area into an exciting, modern water play and splash area for families - the paddling pools also received a £2.8m upgrade as a part of the regeneration works. The hub is well used by local schools


and provides a meeting place for the whole community. It acts as a starting/finishing point for a diverse range of outdoor activities offered in the park, it is popular with playgroups, school/educational group visits with subjects ranging from the history and design of the watermill through to mini-beast hunts and it also hosts a variety of activities from school holiday clubs, forest school sessions, young gardening clubs, yoga classes as well as temporary exhibitions and displays. Cassiobury Hub won both the Most


Sustainable Construction Awardand Project of the Year Awardat the Hertfordshire Building Futures Awards last year.


Operational energy System


The Most Sustainable Construction


Award, celebrates developments that have made an exceptional contribution to environmental sustainability, throughout the whole life-cycle of the project, from the early planning stages, throughout construction, to the completed build and consideration of future uses. The judges described Cassiobury Hub as


“an outstanding example of how modern sustainable construction can be provided simply. The social sustainability aspects of The Hub are particularly noteworthy, having resulted in the sensitive regeneration of an important area of Cassiobury Park, by providing an area for healthy outdoor play and recreation for generations to come.” The Project of the Year Awardis for


schemes that have holistically embraced sustainability and are an exemplar for best practice in sustainable development. The judges said: “This public building has had a significant positive impact on the Park. People love it. Good design and some clever thinking has created a park with its own distinctive character.”


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Heating Cooling


Ventilation Lighting


Other/ Unregulated (eg. power sockets including computers, cooking, pumps).


TOTAL for whole building


On-site renewable energy generation


Annual energy demand (after accounting for renewables and reduction technologies)


Annual carbon emissions* (after accounting for renewables and reduction technologies)


Design annual energy demand (at meter)


13.06 kWh/m2 0 kWh/m2


/yr


6.86 kWh/m2 20.3kWh/m2


/yr /yr 48.43 kWh/m2 93.49 kWh/m2 /yr /yr


Generation: 7427 kWh/yr (total)


483.36kWh/m2 /yr /yr


31.9KgCO2 yr *


eq/m2


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