Introduction

Education

Educational buildings demand specific performance and environmental requirements to optimise learning achievement, from nursery through to university. Key factors include sustainable design, low operational energy usage and low carbon emissions coupled with high indoor air quality and temperature management, acoustics, daylighting, information technology integration.

Kingspan are ideally placed to provide solutions across all sector requirements with their portfolio of structural framing, insulated roof & wall systems, façades, insulation, access floors, daylighting, renewable energy systems (solar thermal and solar photovoltaics) and water conservation products.

Framwell Moor Centre, Durham College

Project:	Framwell Moor Centre, Durham College
Product(s):	KS1000 Optimo™ Architectural Wall Panels KS1000 MR Micro-Rib Architectural Wall Panels
Location:	Durham, UK

Key requirements

Extensive product ranges provide:

superior lifetime thermal and air-tightness systems that deliver energy saving, low carbon, environment-protecting buildings
robust methods Loss of construction - 60 year overall life
- Prevention Council Board (LPCB) and Factory Mutual (FM) Insurer approved fire engineered systems
Off-Site manufacturing methods facilitate rapid, safer, high quality on-site assembly allowing earlier project completion and income stream
low and zero carbon technology integration
market leading Insulated Panels and Facades steel support systems
Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and water conservation products

Environmentally sustainable buildings

Cradle to cradle - Kingspan systems significantly contribute to achieving green points and credits for environmentally sustainable buildings, from design through to deconstruction (end of life).

The Kingspan portfolio of systems is compliant with the highest rating classifications published by the world leading Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) and the World Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™.

Embodied energy (8-10%)is the quantity of energy required to manufacture, and supply to the point of use, a product, material or service.Operational energy (82-86%)refers to all energy required to run a building, i.e., energy use for fixed building services including heating, hot water, lighting, pumps and fans and all other appliances. Deconstruction (6-8%) is the selective dismantlement of building components, specifically for re-use, recycling, and waste management.

1. Embodied energy is the quantity of energy required to manufacture, and supply to the point of use, a product, material or service.

2. Operational energy refers to all energy required to run a building, i.e., energy use for fixed building services including heating, hot water, lighting, pumps and fans and all other appliances.

3. Deconstruction is the selective dismantlement of building components, specifically for re-use, recycling, and waste management.

Delivering low energy, low carbon buildings today

The focus of today's governments, property owners, designers and constructors is to build environmentally sustainable buildings. Improving the thermal performance of the Insulated Panels and Facades is the easiest, most immediate and cost-effective way to reduce running energy costs and carbon emissions. Kingspan have the capability to deliver Insulated Panels and Facades solutions, including building integrated renewable power and heat technologies that exceed existing and meet future 'zero-carbon' legislative requirements, across global markets.

The chart below shows indicative future energy and carbon emission targets over and above current building codes, to zero-carbon.