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SB December 2013

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Sustainability Leaders Awards 2013 42/44 SUSTAINABLE BUILDING Finalists: Kirklees College – Parsons Brinckerhoff Challenged to reduce space, cut costs and promote sustainable development, the design team at Parsons Brinckerhoff used the reclamation of the nearby Huddersfield Canal as a natural heat sink for the college. Water is pumped in for the cooling system and the resulting heat is rejected into the canal. The result is a reduction in gross floor area by reducing major plant space, lower construction costs and significant lifecycle carbon, energy and cost savings (up to 35%). Larkfleet PassiveHouse Larkfleet Homes has developed a prototype house, designed and constructed using lightweight materials and off-site construction techniques, which it claims could "revolutionise the construction industry". As well as lower carbon emissions – both in construction and use – the house can also be "flood resistant" with hydraulic jacks used to raise the building above water levels. Researching the potential for this to be achieved at scale is the next stage of the project. UK Energy Partners Who said green buildings were expensive? UK Energy Partners have combined existing high quality building, energy conservation and renewable technologies to deliver a new kind of affordable school building: Schoolhaus at Moreton Hall School in Bury St Edmunds. Delivered at £800 per square metre (half the price of using traditional materials and processes), it has an A+ energy performance certificate and with air source heat pumps and mechanical ventilation and heat recovery, costs just £3 per square metre per year to heat. Go straight to the top of the (sustainable school building) class. University of Nottingham Laboratories can be energy guzzlers – even those that have been built to research energy efficiency. But the University of Nottingham's Energy Technology Building changes this as the world's first operational, zero carbon lab. As well as the usual energy efficiency kit, it also features the first ever gridconnected 'universal flexible power management system' – the key enabling technology for the EU's smart grid.

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