A half-year high note and more to come...

The practice has much to celebrate as we enter the second half of 2023. The first six months of the year ended on a high note as two major education projects, Erne Campus and the Verena Holmes Building, were honoured in separate ways.

Erne Campus of South West College won the overall People’s Choice Award in the highly prestigious UK Passivhaus Trust Awards 2023. The £34m campus, which has Passivhaus Premium status, generates four times more energy than it uses.

Judges said the building acts as a living educational tool for students, as well as demonstrating how the implementation of net zero energy building can help break down barriers to the roll-out of such technologies across the UK.

Erne Campus stood out from the pack as the world’s first educational - and currently the largest – Passive House Premium rated building, and the first UK building to achieve both PHP and BREEAM Outstanding accreditations.

It has also won UK Project of the Year in the RICS Awards 2022; RICS Public Sector Project of the Year 2022; and BREEAM Public Sector ProjectDesign Stage Award 2021.

Over at Canterbury Christ Church University, the £65m Verena Holmes Building was officially opened by the Duchess of Edinburgh. It is one of the largest science, technology, engineering, health and medicine education facilities in south-east England and is sited next to a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The building provides students with an 18,000m2, four-storey facility with ultra-modern specialist areas including a bio-mechanics lab, simulated hospital wards, X ray suite and anatomy teaching lab inside a complex façade which describes a very direct relationship with its unique historical landscape.

Hamilton Architects is proud to be one of the largest, and most diverse, architectural practices on the island of Ireland. Educational projects play a huge role in our business, but so do projects in the Health, Conservation and Commercial sectors.

As we enter into the second half of 2023, the Partners and our growing team of architects, architectural technologists, designers, BIM specialists, and support staff look forward to sharing with you the completion of more standout projects from our portfolios.

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