5 storey, 15,500 sq. metre new build college facility at Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East Kilbride to replace existing disparate campus buildings.
Client
South Lanarkshire College
Total Contract Value
£18,000,000
M&E Value
£5,500,000
M&E Services
Full M&E services design and supervision. Full dynamic daylight linked lighting control and emergency lighting monitoring system. Active harmonic conditioning. Inverter controlled heat recovery variable refrigerant volume air conditioning systems (R410a) with mechanical ventilation with high efficiency heat recovery.
Architect
Jenkins and Marr
Main Contractor
Balfour Beatty
Mechanical Sub
Balfour Kilpatrick
Electrical Sub
Balfour Kilpatrick
Added Value
Fully integrated design in conjunction with other design team members.
Optimisation of external solar shading devices (fins, brise soliel and glazing) passively controlling external solar gain and minimising energy consumption and carbon emissions whilst maintaining good quality natural light.
In-house dynamic modelling software used to develop the optimum design solutions using real time weather data, avoiding typical industry standard oversizing practices and, through better load matching which maximises plant efficiencies and reduces primary energy consumption and carbon emissions by up to 15%, reduces plantrooms by up to 15%.
