Ecospace Project

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Ecospace Project Presented by Laura
Dresser December 2006
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Lauder College Incorporating Sustainability Envi
ronmental Aspects Difficulties
Faced Implications
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• Where we are
• Main campus in Dunfermline
• 2 secondary campuses in Cowdenbeath and Rosyth
• 30 Employment and Enterprise Centres and
  Learning Centres in South East and Central
  Scotland
• What we do
• Serve East of Scotland
• Demonstrate lead-edge practice in
• Social inclusion
• Workforce development
• Serving businesses and local community

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• Reason for new build
• Leading role for Scottish Further Education in
  the development of a centre of excellence in
  sustainable development
• Construction industry in Scotland represents 10
  of the countrys GDP
• Expected demand of 400 new construction
  apprentices in Fife over the next 4 years
• Demonstrating best practice in construction
  training for Scotland

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Ecospace is to be the cornerstone of our
sustainability strategy within the
College The project is to demonstrate value
for money over the life cycle of the building,
using sustainable and environmental measures
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Architects Brief

• An exciting modern facility to train our future
  crafts people
• Best practice in waste reduction, re-use of
  materials, procurement of renewable resources and
  energy use minimisation
• Providing up to date technologies, ICT learning
  tools
• Incorporate sound sustainable and environmentally
  friendly measures

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Project Plans
Existing Building
ASPIRE
New Workshops
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• Incorporating Sustainability
• The outline specification of the project stated
  that
• material should be sourced locally and should,
  as far as possible, be natural materials in as
  raw and unprocessed state as possible
• The outline specification also emphasises waste
  minimisation and the evaluation of the
  environmental impact of the project
• The environmental impact of all products used
  within the new building were considered before
  any purchases were made
• A BREEAM Assessment was carried out

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• Environmental Aspects
• Use of Brownfield site
• 75 of excavation material was retained on site
  (4000 cubic metres)
• This reduced the volume of traffic on surrounding
  infrastructure

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• Sedum (green) roof
• Creates habitat for native flora and fauna
• Creates a horizontal composition in response to
  existing landscape scales
• Reduces rainwater run-off and
• enhances building performance
• Rainwater harvesting supplies
• grey water toilet flush systems

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• Solar Panels
• Reduces energy consumption from conventional
  sources
• Total collector area of 50 m2
• Waveform system
• Supplies 45 of annual
• energy DHWS load
• Annual emissions savings
• of 5.7 tonnes CO2

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• Timber frame
• Made from Douglas Fir
• Comes from managed forests
• FSC certified

• Breathing walls
• Insulated with recycled paper
• Oak cladding used for external walls

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• Other Sustainable Features
• Use of Northlight
• Solar gain panels
• Marmoleum flooring throughout
• Mat well at entrance made from recycled tyres
• Interior walls painted using environmentally
  friendly paint
• Porous paving used to form external access road
• Cycle racks to encourage use of
• sustainable transport

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• Difficulties experienced
• Difficult to find contractor interested in a
  project with green credentials
• Difficult to price unfamiliar materials
• Difficult to obtain competent quotes from
  sub-contractors
• Challenge to price the job keenly and accurately

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• Contractor difficulties
• Accurate planning was difficult
• Lack of availability of locally sourced materials
  presented a challenge
• Design and detailing of sustainable construction
  technology wasnt familiar to main contractor or
  many sub-contractors

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• Project Difficulties
• Keeping costs down
• Excluding various materials and technologies due
  to cost savings
• Maintaining the integrity of the original project
  specification
• First time developer, especially of a sustainable
  building

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• How We Overcame Difficulties
• Engaged fully in partnership approach and
  embraced learning willingly
• Shared financial savings with partners
• Engaged Modern Apprentices and other students and
  staff in unusual experiences such as the raising
  of the frame

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• Implications for the College
• The BMS will be used to monitor the behaviour of
  the new green building in relation to our other
  campuses
• Introduction of Green Practices Strategy
• Cycle-2-Work scheme
• Sustainability of BLCC

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Official Launch 2nd February 2007
www.lauder.ac.uk/sustainability