Planning consent has been granted for the new £321m energy-efficient Children’s Medical Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital, designed to achieve the 20% reduction in energy use as required by the Greater London Authority’s London Plan.
Buildings services for the 30,000m2 hospital are by developed consulting engineer WSP Group and include co-generation and cooling, adiabatic cooling techniques, heat/cooling reclaim, good daylighting linked to high efficiency lighting and controls, as well as mixed-mode ventilation to non-critical clinical areas.
A natural gas fired CCHP (combined cooling heat and power) plant is connected to the entire hospital campus, not just the new development. Primary heating is natural gas firing to the CHP and boiler plant but can in the future run on bio-gas to the generators or bio-oil to the boilers if an affordable and sustainable source were to become available.
Architect is Llewelyn Davies Yeang and construction starts in October with completion set for late 2011. The project expects to achieve the highest BREEAM Excellent rating from the Building Research Establishment using the NHS Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT).
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Building Sustainable Design
