🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Erne Campus

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Profoundly pushing PassivHaus boundaries. First, the established ‘PassivHaus Classic’, then the ‘PassivHaus Plus’, now Erne Campus: UK’s first ‘PassivHaus Premium’.

📍Location

Enniskillen, Northern Ireland

🏢Building Details

• 1st UK PassivHaus Premium project + largest in the world: 88,260 sq. ft.

• Educational facilities for 2,800 students + administration centre + breakout areas

• Winner of Project of the Year at RICS Awards 2022

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Contractor

• Celine M. – Principal & Chief Executive @ South West College

• Eimear Grugan – Estates and Sustainability Manager @ South West College

• Donal McGloin – Contracts Management @ Tracey Brothers Ltd

✍️Architects & Engineers

• Mark Haslett – Partner @ Hamilton Architects

• Cormac Freehill – Managing Partner @ Bennett Freehill

• Aaron McCarthy – Partner @ Bennett Freehill

• Mark Kelso – Director @ Semple & McKillop Consulting Engineers

• Tomas O'Leary – Managing Director @ MosArt

• Angela McBride – Interior & Environmental Designer @ Mullarkey Pedersen Architects

• Jim Kerr – Director @ Albert Fry Associates

🌱Sustainability

• PassivHaus Premium (PHP) + BREEAM Outstanding = 1st UK building to achieve both

• PV panels (area of 14 tennis courts) generate 120 kWh/m2/year renewable energy: requirement for buildings to achieve the advanced ‘premium’ PassivHaus

• Curved south elevation maximises daylight + solar gains; north elevation has highly insulated timber-framed structure – plus triple glazing throughout

• Heating system = bio-oil micro CHP unit providing 80% of energy + highly efficient air-to-water heat pump providing remaining 20%

• Building is part of the ‘One Planet Living’ framework: a bottom-up action plan which will act as a carbon neutral route map

🥦 Wellbeing

• Features restaurant, state-of-the-art gym, dance studio, plus hair + beauty salons where trainees can practise techniques + treatments

• Step-free access throughout + fully accessible toilets and shower/ changing facilities

• 14,500 = est. number of people directly benefitted from the building within the local community

🎈Bonus feature

The previous campus building located at Fairview, Enniskillen, was an old building built in 1971 with a D energy rating. It used approx. 100,000L/year of oil for heating: costing £51,000 per year. The new building represents an annual saving of £44,963 – £1 million over 25 years.

🔗 Check it out https://www.hamiltonarchitects.co.uk/portfolio/south-west-college/