Case Study

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Case Study The UKs Greenest and Most Space
Efficient HE Building?Queen Margaret University
- RELOCATE
Steve Scott Queen Margaret University Director
of Estates and Facilities
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Queen Margaret University

• Established 1875
• 4000 Students (FTE) 500 Staff
• 77 Female
• 72 Scots/12 Other UK/16 International
• Four Schools
• Health Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Business and Enterprise
• Drama and Creative Industries
• 27m Turnover
• 96 graduate employment rate
• University title January 2007

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QMU Previous Estate
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Estates Options Appraisal
1998

• Which Was -
• Matching the Estate with the University Strategic
  Plan
• Which concluded-
• Estate not fit for not fit for purpose
  condition/growth/efficiency
• University not financially viable within current
  estate.
• Which recommended-
• New Estate - Relocate dispose and build new -
  smaller by (35)
• New Business - Transform best practice and
  financially sustainable
• Which represented
• Unique opportunity
• Unique risks

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Site Selection
2002
Process 5 years In total 2 failed attempts 50
long listed 16 shortlist 4 fully evaluated
Choice Craighall - East Lothian 13 Miles (
west to east) Green belt Financial and Non
Financial
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Outline Design Brief
2003
Environmental considerations
Distinctive Identity
Learning centred
Interactive Social Learning
Sustainable
Welcoming Inspiring
Future Flexibility and Expansion
Community Focus
Design Brief
Open Accessible
Safety Security
Space Efficiency
Cost Lifecycle
Integrated
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Masterplan
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Masterplan
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Design Academic Building
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Entrance Level
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VISION
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Upper Level
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Social Spaces
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Space Planning
Significant increase in Space utilisation rates
Net Internal area close to SMG model for
affordable estate Strict space management
essential for success (timetable)
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• Learning Resource Centre
• Consolidated base for Student Centred learning
• No taught classes
• Central location heart of building
• Varied environment
• study spaces (15)
• Secure and non secure

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• Office Accommodation
• Academic and Corporate
• No subject areas
• Detailed workspace planning
• No student access

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• Teaching and Research
• Modelled future profile
• Targeted utilisation rates
• Strict space management
• Grouped room types
• Structural grid

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Sustainability

• The following awards were delivered
• CEEQUAL - Excellent Rating
• BREEAM (Academic) - Excellent (Highest
  points for UK University)
• BREEAM (Sports) - Excellent
• BREEAM (Residences) - Excellent
• ENVEST - 17 ecopoints/m2

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Sustainability - Approach
2004

• Holistic
• avoid gimmicks where add expense and cost
• get basics right
• balance cost benefits with any additional costs
  (no additional sustainability budget)
• design sustainability in
• Vision Statement - to develop a sustainable
  community for learning and life
• Emphasise Sustainability throughout process
• specialist sub consultant - GAIA
• consultant selection
• contractor selection
• monitoring regime
• Key target areas
• low Carbon footprint
• biodiversity and a quality external environment
• Indoor air quality and Daylight
• water management

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Low Carbon Footprint The Building
2004

• Minimise Consumption
• utilise natural ventilation, coupled with thermal
  mass, where possible
• set a 25 improvement on the Building Regulation
  standards for building air tightness
• apply an IT Solution that minimises both power
  and unwanted heat gain. In this instance it is
  thin client technology
• set a 5 improvement on the Building Regulation
  standards of thermal insulation
• deliver good natural daylight to the interiors
  and couple this to intelligent lighting controls

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Low Carbon - Simple Design
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The Low Carbon Strategy - Bio-Mass

• technical and financial review of renewable
  energy technologies identified Bio-mass as the
  preferred low carbon technology for the Campus
• The intention was to burn local forestry products
  in a QMU owned Energy Centre to provide heat for
  the Academic and Residential Blocks.
• no precedent (at time) in UK for this scale of
  plant (4.5MW heat)
• Bio-mass is deemed to be carbon neutral
• full gas boiler back-up

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2 No Gas Fired Boilers (4.5MW) for full back-up
Water Storage Cylinders
Wood Store
Bio-mass Boiler 1.5MW
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Bio-mass Financial Appraisal
2004

• 1.5m to install Bio-mass Energy Centre
• 0.4m Capital Grant from Carbon Trust
• Heat delivered to Campus at a rate of 1.78p/Kwh
• Payback period estimated at between 5-7 years.

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Carbon Appraisal 4 Months Heat Data
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Kg CO2 / m²
Kg CO2 / m²
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Carbon from Biomass Deliveriesk
HEEPI Good Practise Benchamrk
Carbon from Biomass Deliveries
HEEPI Good Practise Benchamrk
QMU Fossil Fuel
QMU Fossil Fuel
Academic Buildings
Residences
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Biodiversity and external environment

• Woodland shelterbelts surround the campus,
  providing a large increase in the length of
  valuable edge habitat which attracts bird and
  invertebrate diversity
• Mixed native hedges extend the edge habitat,
  providing corridors of cover
• Meadow grassland and wetland margins will provide
  tall grass habitat typical of field margins
• Wetlands in rural areas have declined in recent
  years due to agricultural improvements, and
  therefore new wetlands are very valuable.

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Minimising Pollution / Water Management

• Water both into and out of site managed to
  minimise energy use
• Water Out - SUDS pond
• Water In -
• Low use fittings
• w.c.s
• waterless urinals
• taps
• Leak detection on water main
• Rainwater harvesting discounted (payback period
  too long)

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Healthy Materials
Internal Materials 80 of floor finishes A
rated as determined by the Green Guide to
Specification 80 of internal walls A rated as
determined by the Green Guide to
Specification Recyclable Balance between carpet
and lino acoustics v life cycle
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Green Travel Planning
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BREEAM - SCORE

• excellent rating -77
• Highest scoring HE in UK
• Highest bespoke excellent rating in Scotland
  (4th highest in UK)
• Land use and Ecology high scoring unusual for
  Greenfield site

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ICT Strategy
2004
Followed extensive research Holistic
approach support core brief design in Business
case Consultant and Sub Consultants
involved Thin Client Infrastructure -
Fundamental to Delivering Sustainability Strategy

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what is thin-client?
A thin-client is a client computer in a
client-server architecture network which depends
primarily on the central server for processing
activities, and mainly focuses on conveying input
and output between the user and the remote
server. In contrast, a thick or fat client does
as much processing as possible and passes only
data for communications and storage to the
server. Definition courtesy of Wikipedia
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perception vs reality
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benefits
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remote working
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energy saving
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extended equipment lifespan
thin-client 5-6 years
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Some specifics

• thin-clients
• 17W per client max
• 90 reduction on our old PCs
• CRT to LCD migration

• blade servers
• 40 less energy than conventional servers
• HP Blade System 27 less energy than competitors

conscious procurement decision end-2004
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disadvantages

• and our solutions

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all eggs in one basket

• we had better make it a super-strength basket

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non-compliant software

• computer aided design
• video and audio editing
• hardware dependent

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loss of local control

• tackled early as a separate project
• although staff were unable to install or change
  anything locally, support was improved and it was
  soon accepted (by most)

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the change process

• change management
• changing user perceptions of technology
• re-skilling of IT staff

from PC to TC
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outcomes

• All existing individual and IT lab computers are
  to be migrated and replaced with thin-client
  devices unless the work of the institution cannot
  be achieved by the use of this technology or by
  providing an alternative within a shared space.
  No individual will have a personal computer on
  their desk.
• This is an institutional imperative in line with
  project ReLocate.

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implementation schedule
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support
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learn from our pain

• choose your targets
• get institutional buy-in at all costs
• choose some academic and support staff to
  champion the technology
• accentuate the benefits
• accept that it will not meet everyones needs so
  have a contingency
• experience depends on the client hardware

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big picture
VoIP
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QMU ReLocate - Summary

• ReLocate unique challenge/opportunity
• Business re-engineering
• Space Planning Sustainability core
• ICT (thin client) strategy Key to both
• Successful?
• Delivered on cost and programme
• Operating within space plan objectives case
  study
• Met sustainability (design ) targets POE
  underway

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