We’ve just finished work on a £5 Million government project The Fold. In 2009, Lancashire Authority placed a successful bid for funding from the Cross-Government Co-Location Fund; they were to provide health and well-being services for children, youth and families in South West Burnley. Valued at £5million, this was the fifth highest allocation nationally. Our job was to provide the Heating calculations, Solar Gains reports, a Detailed Daylight Factor Report, a complete Dynamic Simulation, and finally to produce the Energy Performance Certificate.
The building’s occupancy encompasses on-site access from schools to a range of health, wellbeing and learning services, including:
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
- Health Trainers
- School Nursing
- Sexual Health Services
- Smoking Cessation
- Exercise on Prescription (facilities available at the new schools)
- Drugs Treatment
- Alcohol Treatment and Brief Interventions
- CHD/CVD identification of risk factors
- Uptake of Screening – childhood and cancer
- Physical Activity Programmes including Healthy Eating
- Mental Health services
- Children’s Integrated Services
- Family Social Care
- Parenting Support
- School attendance advice and support
- Healthy Schools Programme
- Curriculum input including Diploma support
The chart to the left gives a visual comparison of the internal and ambient temperatures for the building.
The neat grouping of the Dry resultant temperature (grey line) shows the building to have adequate control over the internal heat levels.
For ease of reference the internal temperatures are expressed in terms of percentage of room-by-room occupied hours when each room climbs above 25˚C and above 28˚C. It should be noted that according to the relevant Building Regulations the building cannot exceed 25˚C for more than 5% of the occupied hours and the building cannot exceed 28˚C to more than 1% of the occupied hours.
Our services on this project included:
- Geometrical Construction of IES (VE) Model (Integrated Environmental Solutions Virtual Environment)
- SBEM Assessment and Provision of BRUKL Output report
- Energy Performance Certificate
- Room-by-Room Solar Gain Report
- Detailed Daylighting Report
Learn more about The Fold on the Lancashire Government website.
