Small Animal Hospital shortlisted for RIBA award
11.06.10
Hulley & Kirkwood are delighted to learn that the Small Animal Hospital for the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow has been shortlisted for a RIBA Award. The pioneering £10.5m world-class centre for veterinary medicine has already won the Supreme Award from the Glasgow Institute of Architects and the prestigious RIASAndrewDoolanBestBuilding in Scotland Award.
Situated at the entrance to the grounds of the Garscube Estate, the SmallAnimalHospital provides state of the art services for animal owners and referring practitioners throughout Scotland and Northern England.
The main design criterion for the facility was how to create a large hospital building without ruining the beautiful green space for which the Garscube Estate is renowned. Essentially, the solution involved lifting up the ground, peeling off the grass and placing the new building underneath.
In order to let daylight in to public areas, an innovative ‘crystal’ glass cupola, lit with different colours at night, sits within the building’s sloping grass roof. The natural look of the new animal hospital is completed with stone-filled gabion baskets, lending the building a deliberately solid and heavy base, emphasising the driving idea of roof and ground.
The M&E services, provided by Hulley & Kirkwood, were designed and specified to compliment the architectural ethos, both to the internal and external spaces. Careful planning and coordination of plant areas and services distribution with minimal external impact on what is a very innovative building and roof shape design intended to compliment its surroundings.
In the absence of formal and published equivalents to Human Healthcare and Hospital design guidance, Hulley’s interpreted these for the application to a bespoke VeterinaryHospital. Included within the project are the following energy efficiency features; a condensing LTHW boilerplant, full zoned control of space heating & cooling systems including setback, a Building Management System (Trend), heat recovery on all air handling plants, inverter drives to fan and pump motors, water flow restrictors, water control PIRs to all sanitary facilities, natural ventilation where appropriate, HF luminaire ballasts, a fully integrated lighting control system and feature lighting.
The building received a D Asset Rating which exceeds a predicted E rating, the benchmark for a building of this type and nature. A bespoke BREEAM process and accreditation was invoked by the University for the project and was predicted to receive a rating of 'Very Good'/'Good' at the Design stage.
Routinely, and as an integral part to our appointment with the University, H&K will assist with a first anniversary assessment of energy use within the building being facilitated by the extensive sub-metering and Building Management System specified as an integral part of the original M&E design.
