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projects
Glasshouse College, Stourbridge
Glasshouse College, Stourbridge
Category: Conservation and the Arts
Client: Ruskin Mill Land Trust
Architect: Bryant Priest Newman
Contractor: Speller Metcalfe
Construction Value: £1.6M (approx)
Completed: Under Construction – due for completion September 2012
Client: Ruskin Mill Land Trust
Architect: Bryant Priest Newman
Contractor: Speller Metcalfe
Construction Value: £1.6M (approx)
Completed: Under Construction – due for completion September 2012
Extensive refurbishment and remodeling of an existing glassmaking factory – complete with basement level and large scale production furnaces. To provide a modern, multi-functional exhibition and theatre space, with adjoining teaching studios, back of house areas and craft based workshops. The scheme is jointly financed by the HLF and Arts Council, with a strong emphasis on retaining the existing structure and façade of the building and ensuring the M+E services are discreetly installed to accentuate the character of the building
Key features, include:
- Demand driven space heating systems to minimise energy use, coupled with thermal zoning of key areas for out-of-hours, multifunctional use
- “On demand” mechanical ventilation systems with highly efficient heat recovery
- High efficiency gas fired condensing boilers and variable flow control heating system
- Controlled natural ventilation to the Studio Theatre with summertime mechanical assist ventilation
- Mixed-mode ventilation to the basement studio workshops
- Enhanced Building Management System to maximise energy efficiency and use within building
- High efficiency lighting systems
- Specialist power and lighting systems for Main Exhibition Space and Studio Theatre controlled via a data network based dimming system
- Ambient feature lighting to emphasise the previous use and history of the existing building and the new
