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In the judges’ opinion, the University of
Oxford has demonstrated that better energy performance can be achieved without disrupting operational performance and can free scarce finances from utility bills for other purposes. What Oxford is doing could be done across the higher education sector.
Oxford University Project Team: Building Owner: Estates Services, University of Oxford; Project Manager: University of Oxford; Mechanical / Electrical Engineer: University of Oxford; Contractors: Hoare Lea / Darke and Taylor / Monard
PROJECT OF THE YEAR – LEISURE Winner: Heriot-Watt University The high performance Oriam Health and Fitness facility at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh provides extensive natural ventilation and daylighting to reduce the need for mechanical cooling, fan energy and artificial lighting. To optimise energy usage this state-of-the-art sports centre has been designed to suit a wide range of activity and occupancy levels. The Soft Landings process has been instrumental in fine tuning the lighting, heating and ventilation control within the sports hall, improving user comfort and reducing energy consumption. Heating, ventilation and lighting are zoned so that each court can be controlled individually if required, and ventilation is also controlled according to occupancy through use of CO2 sensors. Max Fordham carried out analysis to establish the optimum balance between roof transparency and ventilation openings to avoid summer overheating in the indoor 3G football pitch.
Heriot-Watt University Project Team: Building Services Engineer: Max Fordham; Building Owner: Heriot-Watt University; Architect: Reiach and Hall Architects; Mechanical / Electrical Engineer: Castle Building Services; Contractor: Bowmer and Kirkland; Facilities Manager: Heriot-Watt University Estates
PROJECT OF THE YEAR - COMMERCIAL / INDUSTRIAL Winner: University of East Anglia The Enterprise Centre is the most recent addition to the University of East Anglia campus; a groundbreaking project showcasing genuinely low-carbon architecture and materiality that achieves the client’s aspiration of Passivhaus, BREEAM Outstanding, and a 100-year performance lifecycle. The design reflects an ambitious vision to create a high quality and truly sustainable building for people, the environment and the economy. A key part of the brief was to design a working environment that focused on the health and wellbeing of
University of East Anglia Project Team: Building Services Engineer: BDP; Building Owners: Adapt Low Carbon Group / The University of East Anglia; Project Manager: 3PM Quantity; Surveyor: Capita; Architect: Architype; Interior Designer: Architype Mechanical/Electrical; Engineer: BDP; Contractor: Morgan Sindall
the building’s users. The Passivhaus strategy, combined with the natural materials used within the building, provides a low-energy, comfortable, non- toxic internal environment for the businesses that occupy the centre. A high proportion of the materials for the building are sourced from within 30 miles of the site.
PROJECT OF THE YEAR - PUBLIC USE Winner: The University of Leicester The Centre for Medicine at the University of Leicester sets a new best-practice example for large-scale higher education buildings and has gained Passivhaus certification, the largest building in the UK to do so. The CfM brings together the colleges of medicine, psychology and biological sciences under one roof for the first time and accommodates 2,400 occupants. These departments previously occupied 19 separate old and inefficient buildings. A key driver behind the CfM has been UoL’s sustainability strategy and desire to reduce carbon emissions by 60%
University of Leicester Project Team: Building Services Engineer: Couch Perry Wilkes; Building Owner: University of Leicester Building; Occupier: University of Leicester; Project Manager: Bidwells; Quantity Surveyor: Gleeds Worldwide; Architect: Associated Architects; Mechanical / Electrical Engineer: NG Bailey; Contractor: Willmott Dixon
by 2020, based on a 2005 benchmark. The university set several objectives: as well as achieving Passivhaus Certification it was to be BREEAM Excellent, have an ‘A’ rated EPC on construction and obtain an ‘A’ rated DEC by the end of the third year of operation. All were accomplished.
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