Westborough School
Westborough School
Project Details
A low carbon refurbishment of an existing Victorian school building using renewable technologies, with Cottrell and Vermeulen Architects.
Scope of Services
OR Consulting Engineers specialise in low carbon refurbishment and have worked with the project team to formulate the project’s environmental strategy, which includes using renewable technologies and measures such as:
- The improvement of the building’s passive performance by internally lining solid walls and ceilings with thermal insulation, installing secondary glazing and improving building air tightness.
- The installation of energy efficient light fittings and controls.
- The installation of a biomass boiler to offset the school’s heating and domestic hot water loads.
- The installation of photo-voltaic panels and a wind turbine to generate electricity on-site.
- The adoption of heat recovery ventilation techniques.
- The introduction of acoustic absorbers to satisfy the reverberation time requirements of BB93.
- The sub-metering, monitoring and targeting of energy consumption.
- The adoption of water efficient technologies.
Project Highlight
This ground breaking low carbon project explores the use of low carbon engineering techniques combined with the re-use of existing building stock and the use of renewable technologies to provide a low cost, low energy, flexible solution.
This project was part funded by DECC to act as a prototype project and will be monitored to see how this approach can bring benefits across the education sector.
The refurbishment works have resulted in an estimated:
- 74% reduction in CO2 emissions relating to heating and hot water loads;
- 43% reduction in CO2 emissions relating to electrical loads.
OR Consulting Engineers
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