Introba UK Education Capability 2023

Our Values

Client Focused

We strive to always give our clients the best solutions

Integrity

We do the right thing in an ethical, fair, and sustainable way.

Collaboration

We bring a diverse and inclusive team, working together toward technical excellence.

Innovation

We strive to create new and better ways to solve our clients’ toughest challenges.

We are the curious. Problem solvers.

Driven

to unlock the potential in every system.

Service Expertise

We provide innovative engineering and design services through digital transformation and sustainable systems. We go beyond building places and things to create dynamic environments — living systems — that are smart, resilient, and connected, working together to elevate the human experience and protect the health of our planet.

“ We understand a healthy learning environment is one in which students, teachers and staff feel physically and emotionally safe and where the connection between healthy facilities and healthy individuals is understood and embraced.”

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KEY DESIGN SERVICES

Daylighting assessments

Net Zero carbon delivery

Decarbonisation roadmaps

PV arrays and thermal panels, to offset energy demands

DfE sustainability pilot scheme

building services design

Building services engineers play a crucial role in designing and maintaining sustainable schools.

The need for resilient, healthy, low carbon education facilities requires solutions that reduce emissions while improving building user comfort. our approach is to create healthy buildings that lead in sustainable design, construction and operations.

We understand the impact that educational facilities have on the quality of the teaching, learning environment, and student outcomes, while also contributing to improved environmental quality.

our role is to understand the unique needs of the building and its occupants, and incorporate energy-efficient systems and renewable technologies that not only reduce the school’s environmental impact, but also improve the indoor air

quality, thermal comfort and overall wellbeing of the students and staff.

By investing in healthy education facilities, we provide a healthy and productive learning environment for students, while educating them about sustainable practices and preparing them for the workforce of the future.

Services designs compliant with one Planet Living Strategy

Heating and ventilation strategies

Introba is a leader in the design of innovative facilities with a mission to promote educational advancement and sustainability.

Building a Positive Impact

We combine leading-edge technical knowledge with a sensitivity to architecture, heritage and interior design.

We’re experienced in the commercial realities with regard to effective use of space and repetition to the benefit of design efficiencies, where we bring learnings and innovations from previous projects.

Adaptive Learning Spaces

Learning spaces are the very core of academic life. While these spaces must meet the latest standards in educational design, they should also remain flexible enough to accommodate emerging thought on teaching techniques and classroom configurations.

The educational needs and practices of facilities are constantly evolving and this requires learning spaces to be adaptable.

Innovation

our design and solutions are characterised by creative responses to functional and operational issues.

Innovations to consider include biophilic design, integrated technology, the use of sustainable materials and green roofs and walls, all of which we have experience of designing into schemes.

Integration

Introba understand the importance of designing schools that are integrated into the surrounding community, with shared spaces and resources such as libraries and recreational areas.

There are many other considerations such as the integration of science labs and art studios to support hands-on learning. We ensure that the building services design includes the most appropriate liighting controls, acoustic design, indoor air quality and renewable energy solutions.

Resilience For The Future

Buildings play a key role in preventing the adverse effects of climate change by employing design strategies to both reduce GHG emissions and adapt to current and projected impacts.

At Introba, we have the knowledge and experience to create healthy, highperformance learning environments that enable estates to combine the needs of students and staff with the need for energy conservation and carbon reduction, all while keeping costs down.

Leaders In Sustainability

Carrying net positive, low carbon and carbon positive design to an estate requires identifying synergies between buildings and across systems at estates, starting with the premise of net zero energy or net positive energy and net zero water at the building scale.

Institutions need to construct buildings that are built to last far into the future, creating healthy spaces that enhance the health and comfort of people using the estate’s facilities. At the same time, there is a need to respect and protect the local ecosystem and take climate action to deliver on carbon neutrality commitments.

Hackbridge Primary School London, UK

Hackbridge is a new build primary school for 420 pupils aged 5-11 built next to the pioneering BedZED One Planet Living development. It is the UK’s first true net zero carbon school (regulated and unregulated), and the first to be ‘PassivHaus plus’ certified.

Careful consideration has been taken to select materials that are healthy, have low embodied energy and be easy to construct and maintain.

To achieve Net Zero Carbon the design applies rigorous PassivHaus building envelope insulation and air tightness requirements, with triple glazed windows that enhance thermal comfort and provide excellent daylighting.

A highly efficient ground source heat pump system with inter-seasonal heat storage meets space heating demands. To meet summer peaks and provide resiliency against climate change the system can operate in reverse cycle to provide free cooling.

A rooftop PV array provides renewable electricity to offset 100% annual energy demands, solar thermal panels meeting 80% of hot water needs.

CLIENT London Borough of Sutton

ARCHITECT Architype

CONSTRUCTION VALUE

£10M

COMPLETION

2021

SUSTAINABILITY

Passivhaus Plus one Planet Living Strategy

SERVICES PROVIDED Mechanical, Electrical, Public Health, Energy Modelling, Environmental Design

Hackbridge Primary is the UK’s first true net zero carbon school, and the first to be ‘Passivhaus plus’ certified.

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Kisharon School London, UK

Kisharon School for children with learning disabilities, has undergone a large expansion and refurbishment programme. The new additions include six new classrooms, a hydrotherapy pool as well as kitchen and dining facilities.

The clients brief stressed the importance of making the school more user friendly for both staff and pupils, as it was previously split into multiple sites across the area. The most demanding buildings were consolidated into one larger site, and this allowed Introba to ensure stability and consistency of services such as ventilation and temperature control throughout the facility, guaranteeing maximum comfort levels and minimal distractions for students.

Due to working with a listed building, we worked closely with the architect and conservation officer to ensure the interventions to upgrade the building services were respectful of the listed status and associated features.

This refurbishment has dramatically improved the school. The expanded and updated facilities will not only benefit the staff and pupils, but also the local community as well.

CLIENT Kisharon Academy Trust

ARCHITECT Architecture PLB

CONSTRUCTION VALUE

£7M

COMPLETION

2020

SUSTAINABILITY

Photovoltaic rooftop array

SERVICES PROVIDED Mechanical, Electrical, Public Health Energy Modelling, Environmental Design

“Introba offer high quality, innovative and sustainable solutions.”

- Kisharon Academy Trust

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Marjorie McClure School London, UK

Marjorie McClure is an all-age school catering for a diverse range of SEND students aged 4-19 years. The children have a range of complex needs, which include physical, medical and / or moderate and profound learning difficulties, and a range of sensory needs. The design seeks to align with the school’s educational vision that learning is an adventure, filled with inspirational and creative opportunities.

The new design is a single storey level access building as it was important to the school that the students can move around the building independently. The layout forms a horseshoe shape with out-of-hours larger communal spaces located to the front of the school. The plan is punctuated by two courtyards, which allow daylight and air to penetrate the School.

The project is part of the DfE’s Sustainability Pilot Scheme, which has been developed in response to the UK Government target to achieve net-zero ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions by 2050. In response we set energy use intensity targets aligned to the LETI guidance and combined with a highly optimised façade performance have developed the services strategy to minimise energy consumption. The building is naturally ventilated in summer with a central heat recovery mechanical solution for winter which coupled with an air source heat pump system to provide heating via the ventilation air.

CLIENT Galliford Try/London Borough of Bromley

ARCHITECT Haverstock

CONSTRUCTION VALUE

£13M

COMPLETION

2022

SERVICES PROVIDED Mechanical, Electrical, Public Health, Energy Modelling, Environmental Design, Sustainability Consulting

Marjorie McClure SEND School is for students with a range of complex needs. The project is part of the DfE’s Sustainability Pilot Scheme.

The Hall School

London, UK

Introba are delivering the extensive refurbishment and rebuild of The Hall School, a prestigious independent boys prep school. This project will provide teaching rooms, canteen, sport and drama facilities and exterior play areas.

Work involved the demolition of the existing Wathen Hall, replaced with a sympathetic, modern hall and gymnasium building including an additional storey. Also, the refurbishment of the Century building will enhance its contribution to the conservation area.

Introba are providing full MEP design services as well as dynamic thermal modelling to inform energy strategy and design decisions.

Being delivered in phases allows the school to remain in operation throughout the project. Carefully coordinating work to avoid disrupting the day-to-day running of the school as well as ensuring the safety of both the staff and pupils.

CLIENT The Hall School

ARCHITECT Norr London

CONSTRUCTION VALUE

£10M

COMPLETION

ongoing

SERVICES PROVIDED

Mechanical, Electrical, Public Health, Dynamic Thermal Modelling

The combination of modern and heritage buildings on the site was a key consideration throughout the design process, with new facilities sympathetic to the existing architecture while providing a contemporary contrast with all modern facilities.

Berkhamsted School Deans Hall

Berkhamsted, UK

This project consists of the refurbishment of Deans Hall, the Secondary School’s main assembly hall within a listed Victorian building. The existing hall suffered from overheating in summer limiting its practical usefulness. To provide the school with a more multifunctional space this space was value engineered to remove the need to construct a new build lecture theatre and in the process significantly enhancing the utilisation of this beautiful space. The Hall has 3 settings to cater for a 550 person assembly, 250 person raked seating lecture theatre arrangement (using movable bleacher seating) and a general exam/function space arrangement (used commercially for weddings etc).

Introba surveyed the original ventilation strategy and innovatively retrofitted a new concealed ventilation and cooling heat rejection system using the existing cupola and external louvres as air paths which as a result the project did not require Planning Consent – a key project driver.

Variable air volumes are supplied for the different function settings with enhanced ventilation provided in the exam setting in line with academic research showing enhanced cognitive performance. The comfort controls and new audio-visual system are automatically controlled by staff based on the use setting required through touch screen panel (and for FM staff via BMS).

CLIENT Berkamsted School

ARCHITECT Design Engine

CONSTRUCTION VALUE

£1M

COMPLETION

2020

SUSTAINABILITY

Careful optimisation of Co2 levels and comfort conditions to optimise Ventilation and Cooling Demand control ventilation

SERVICES PROVIDED

Mechanical, Electrical, Public Health, Energy Modelling, Thermal comfort modelling, Environmental Design

Retrofit of an existing beautiful but uncomfortable Victorian Hall into a much more highly utilised multifunctional space. All achieved by carefully integrated the Services to avoid requiring planning permission for new plant.

Berkhamsted School – Sixth Form

Hertfordshire, UK

This exciting new new signature 6th form learning facility will provide an estates hub and an administration building for the staff and students of Berkhamsted School. The new building will facilitate the co-location and expansion of Sixth Form roll.

Introba undertook a sustainability vision planning workshop with teachers, support staff and students to set out their aspirations and inform the brief towards sustainable measures. The outcome of this was an ambitious sustainability brief to meet.

Planning has been granted for the flagship Sixth Form building which uses ground source heat pumps along with thermally activated radiant slabs, to bring low energy cooling to the structures. Heat recovery systems with advanced thermostat and air quality controls, ensure that systems are only being used when they need to be, and natural ventilation and other passive strategies have been prioritised to be used when external conditions make this possible to reduce energy use.

CLIENT Berkamsted School

ARCHITECT Design Engine

CONSTRUCTION VALUE

£30M

COMPLETION

2022

SUSTAINABILITY

Fossil Fuel Free

Ground source heat pumps

Boosted radiant slabs

Passive strategies

SERVICES PROVIDED

Mechanical, Electrical, Public Health, Energy Modelling, Daylighting, Thermal comfort modelling, Environmental Design Heat recovery systems with advanced thermostat and air quality controls, ensure that systems are only being used when they need to be, and natural ventilation and other passive strategies have been prioritised to reduce energy use.

Leadership

We pride ourselves on personality and commitment in driving performance engineered tailored solutions.

our team of specialists have decades of experience in the evolving landscape of Education facilities that support innovation, creativity and safe learning spaces for all.

“During our 4 years working of with Introba across several major projects, we’ve got to know their honest and dependable team. Hands on and collaborative, they are an innovation in service and communication.”

Kara Carter, Creative Director - Spacelab Architects

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Simon Ebbatson

Education sector lead & Senior Principal

Graham Day Associate

Nick Kennedy Associate Principal

Emily Shearer Associate Principal

Specialist Services

Every project is unique and we believe in designing to that same philosophy.

We’re with you across the entire project lifecycle From strategy through design, construction, commissioning and optimisation. our range of services continues to grow, including: Lighting design, Fire engineering, Technology integration, sustainability consulting, energy modelling, commissioning and performance engineering, refrigeration and research and development.

Kimberly Bartlett

Lighting Design Lead & Associate Principal

Stephen Wreford Head of Digital Buildings & Senior Principal

Michel Wizenberg Fire Engineering Lead & Senior Principal

Stephen Gallacher Environmental Design Consultant & Associate Principal

Dort Rich Joergensen Sustainability Consultant & Associate Principal

Tyrone Downey Site Quality Specialist

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