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Eco-friendly façade for university’s sports facility
State-of-the-art building part of £20m investment
A new state-of-the art college sports building at University College Plymouth St Mark and St John has been given an environmentally-friendly and durable façade thanks to Thermowood cladding from John Brash.
The building is part of a £20 million investment and is due to open this summer. It will include an 80-station fitness suite, a 25-metre swimming pool, a 12-court sports hall, an indoor climbing wall, a sports science laboratory and a gymnasium.
John Brash worked closely with architects Roberts Limbrick, which specified the special cladding used on the new facility. It was chosen because it provided enhanced durability, whilst the use of timber cladding helped minimise the building’s carbon footprint.
Thermowood is made from Finnish grown European Redwood and is renowned for its durability and stability. During the manufacturing process it is heated to temperatures in excess of 200o C, which reduces sap and resin levels and produces a timber that will last up to five times longer than untreated boards.
The heat treatment also limits the timber’s ability to absorb or loose moisture, reducing the potential for swelling, shrinkage or distortion of the boards as well as enabling it to retain its original colour for longer.
The cladding used at University College Plymouth St Mark and St John will help improve the building’s energy efficiency, too, as the thermal conductivity of timber 12 times lower than concrete and 400 times lower than steel.
Using wood instead of other building materials also saves on average 0.9 tonnes of carbon dioxide per cubic metre. Source: Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management
More information: www.johnbrash.co.uk
One Response to “Eco-friendly façade for university’s sports facility”
ecoadmin says:
Another fine example of natural materials contributing significantly to energy saving and lower carbon emissions.