2009 LABC National Building Excellence Awards
Supreme winner
Castle College, Beeston Campus Phase 2, Nottingham
Architect: CPMG Architects
Contractor: Mansell Construction Services Limited
Local Authority: Broxtowe Borough Council
This project is a genuine exemplar of design and construction at its best, and amply demonstrates what can be achieved when the whole team is focused on delivering the best possible learning environment for children, teachers and the community. The new campus provides an outstanding and very distinctive set of spaces that encourage a sense of ownership in all who use them.
The judges felt the project was set apart by a design that manages to be iconic without pretensions, and by the thoroughness with which issues of building performance and sustainability were addressed. Passive heating and cooling has been carefully incorporated into the design without disrupting the aesthetics and in the case of a new learning resource centre at the heart of the project, actively enhancing them. This passively cooled, south-facing, two-storey space benefits from outstanding daylight and passive winter heating, and includes a solar chimney stack ventilation system to ensure a fantastic environment during the summer months too, so there is no need for mechanical cooling at all in this popular, and well-populated, area. The results are impressive - a 38% improvement on energy use on 2002 building standards, and a completed project that far exceeds the client's expectations.
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