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Our vision. A sustainable UCL means a campus which: Support current business needs whilst allowing flexibility for future use with minimum intervention Minimise negative environmental impact and maximise positive impact
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Our vision A sustainable UCL means a campus which: • Support current business needs whilst allowing flexibility for future use with minimum intervention • Minimise negative environmental impact and maximise positive impact • Seek to minimise lifecycle costs in expenditure and carbon through efficient operation and intelligent design • Are places where people want to, and are able to, work, interact and learn • Are capable of adapting to future environmental and social impacts Whilst • Representing UCL to its wider community
What is Ska? “SKA rating helps landlords and tenants assess fit-out projects against a set of sustainability good practice criteria. It is estimated that 11% of UK construction spending is on fit-outs and that buildings may have 30-40 fit-outs during their lifecycle” RICS At UCL, we found that a lot of the projects we had were fit out 82 Capital Projects 41 Small/Medium Capital Projects where Ska would be appropriate
Bridging the gap • Ska is one of the tools used • Tool should be appropriate to size of the project • ‘Mini Ska’ takes the core elements of Ska for smaller projects which are not suited to a full assessment • ‘Mini Ska Labs’ uses the same approach for S labs recommendations
Bridging the gap • At the moment, lab fit outs use both • 2 assessments risks items being lost • 2 processes to follow • Needs to be an internal assessor OR 2 assessors
High efficiency lighting • Absence detection for lighting including daylight saving and inter action with HVAC systems • Low energy phase change HVAC systems • Heat recovery on Air Handling Plant • Low velocity fume cupboards • Efficient HVAC systems • Improvements to building fabric including secondary glazing and wall insulation The above measures have been calculated to save approximately 20% of the floors energy use and CO2 emissions. The CO2 emissions reduce from 77052 Kg CO2 per annum to 61965Kg CO2.
Lab refurbishment often involves non-lab spaces such as WCs • Don’t apply the criteria to the lab area if there is a safety or business reason not to • e.g. if blackout conditions are required for an experiment, don’t stick to the blinds VLT • Materials sourcing may be difficult but it does not mean that we shouldn’t try • Accept that you may not get to Ska Gold • Ensure that the principles incorporated in the design are communicated to the users