CEM Summer 2015

Summer 2015

Campus Estate Management Estate and Facilities Management on Campus

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INSIDE

KI Europe sets the standard in education seating

06 Industry news A comprehensive round-up of the latest industry news

20 Ideal conditions

40 Double honour

Ideal commercial boilers make the grade at the University of London

Two Universities were recently honoured at the AUDE Awards

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KI Europe sets the standard in education seating

06 Industry news A comprehensive round-up of the latest industry news

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20 Ideal conditions

40 Double honour

Ideal commercial boilers make the grade at the University of London

Two Universities were recently honoured at the AUDE Awards

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Contents 02 Cover Story – Please be seated KI Europe, has supplied orders to major education institutions

elcome to the summer issue of Campus Estate Management. By now many of you should be concentrating on the summer break and the new developments that always accompany the holidays. As always, this issue’s Product & Industry News section (starting on page 6) showcases the latest news and views from the industry.

Our cover story this month looks at KI Europe, a local manufacturer of high quality furniture for workplaces and educational institutions, who has recently supplied a number of large orders (see page 2).

Next, Ideal Commercial Boilers has supplied a total of eight floor standing condensing boilers to the University of London as part of the University’s ongoing environmental initiative (see page 20).

Elsewhere, Winner of the 2014 ProCon ‘Best Regeneration Project’, the riverside student village at Western Road, Leicester has revitalised a derelict, inner city suburb and blended old with new and showcased how top quality, costeffective student accommodation can be created by regenerating historical spaces (see page 24).

In order to provide a safe and secure campus community, the University of Central Florida (UCF), located in Orlando, has equipped itself with the latest in emergency communication systems. (see page 28).

ACT protects education sites of all sizes and the company’s R&D department realises that in no other sector is it more important to balance provision of immediate access for staff and legitimate visitors (see page 32).

This year’s Association of University Engineers (AUE) Conference is heading to Wales, to be held at the University of South Wales’s scenic Treforest Campus between Wednesday 2nd and Friday 4th September (see page 36).

Two Universities were recently honoured at the AUDE Awards. The University of Brighton won The AUDE University Impact Initiative of the Year Award whilst Lancaster University Facilities Team won ‘Facilities/ Estates Team of the Year’ (see page 40).

Chris Hewett, Editor

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24 Source code Winner of the 2014 ProCon ‘Best Regeneration Project’

06 Product & Industry News The latest news and views on campus

28 Protecting the masses UCF protects campus with integrated and redundant mass notification system

20 Ideal conditions Ideal commercial boilers make the grade at the University of London

32 First class access ACT protects education sites of all sizes

36 AUE Conference 2015 This year’s Association of University Engineers (AUE) Conference is heading to Wales 40 Double honour Two Universities were recently honoured at the AUDE Awards 44 Keeping students safe and secure

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FRONT COVER STORY

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KI Europe, a local manufacturer of high quality furniture for workplaces and educational institutions has recently supplied large orders to Leigh University Technology College, Quest Academy and University College Birmingham

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I brings together good design, advanced engineering and sustainable resources, KI’s products are durable, flexible and offer excellent value. KI Europe is headquartered in London and is part of one of the world’s largest independent furniture manufacturing groups.

KI have supplied Leigh UTC over 600 Maestro chairs and 205 Postura+ laboratory stools for the UK’s future engineering and computer science workforce.

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Leigh UTC Maestro The Leigh UTC is one of the first of its kind in Kent which focuses on computer sciences and engineering alongside core subjects. This is part of a new scheme aimed at forging closer links between education and local businesses. The school will accommodate up to 600 pupils, up from the 170 pupils who have joined the new school in Years 10 and 12 this year.

Adam Goodayle, Senior Project Designer of Red Apple Designs

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commented: “Red Apple Designs were the FF&E consultant for this project. Working with the client we specified the KI Postura and Maestro chairs for Leigh UTC. KI products were the best option because they are a well-known manufacturer of commercial and educational furniture which are of the highest quality and durability.

KI delivered a total of 600 Maestro chairs and 75 of these also had tablets added to them. We selected different

Quest Academy shades of Maestro chairs, so that they complemented the rest of the colour scheme chosen for the school hall. We also specified 200 Postura laboratory stools, all the stools are 700mm high fitted with plastic seats and sled base metal frames.”

KI’s Maestro chairs were specified for the main hall in black, blue grey and cottonwood (white) polypropylene colours. Maestro is a contemporary, light and comfortable stacking chair making it a fitting choice for this particular space;

its sleek appearance and colour choice makes an interesting and striking contrast against the backdrop of yellow and slate black colour scheme of the main hall.

Postura+ stools were specified for the college workshops/laboratory. They’re lightweight yet tough making it easy for students to come together for practical group work and class demos, the seats are easy to clean and highly durable.

KI have also recently supplied hundreds of Postura+ and Maestro chairs to Quest Academy in Croydon.

Quest Academy is a three storey, new build, Academy for 900 pupils of age ranges from 11 through to 16 years old, with a 215 capacity sixth form facility located alongside the existing school. The new academy is arranged around a three story hub which includes innovative & flexible learning spaces, a state-of the-art theatre and hi-tech IT facilities. There is also a new sports hall which is also open to the community. The client selected 132 KI Maestro Chairs in deep blue colours for g the school hall and 893 Postura + Chairs

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in slate-grey colours were specified for classrooms.

Kate Rees Director of Portsdown Office Ltd commented: During the Consultancy period we engaged with the school and recommended the Postura+ Chair for its market tested warranty and ease of use.

The Hall requires a high density stacking chair to enable the space to be used by both the school and third party lets – Maestro fitted the bill perfectly and was within budget offering excellent colourways with minimum storage capacity required when not in use. KI delivered to the programmed dates and quickly replaced a damaged chair supporting our reputation for excellence in customer service.

Next, KI have provided over 900 Strive high density stacking chairs to University College Birmingham.

The chairs have all been tailored to suit

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the clients’ requirements with upholstered seat pads in a dark fabric with chrome.

The client required a large volume of KI Strive chairs for the 7,592 sq. metre building spread over four floors which accommodates for 2,500 students as well as staff.

The building, located on Charlotte Street and Holland Street has a wide range of small and large teaching rooms featuring the latest audio and visual learning technology, two lecture theatres designed to seat 125 persons including a 250 person lecture theatre. There is also a dedicated Postgraduate centre 24 hour flexible learning centre and a 200 seat café with outdoor seating.

Students can interact and enjoy much more social learning & breakout spaces around the building as well as the external landscaping.

Jo Coldicott, Design Director of Arucana Ltd commented:

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“KI’s Strive chair collection fits UCB’s requirements perfectly, performing in all budget, aesthetic, and functionality criteria’s. McIntyre House is such an innovative building for a very forward thinking university, so the furniture specification needed to compliment. KI has done a great job in helping to achieve this!”

The stackable Strive seating collection from KI, designed by Giancarlo Piretti, is a wide family of simple, elegant, comfortable chair designs which are also available in a wide choice of polypropylene colours.

All have a unique, flexible back with a wire rod inserted into the polypropylene to encourage movement and relaxation. The back curve provides lateral support and the contoured seat dissipates pressure points. n For further information please visit the KI Europe website at www.kieurope.com

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Pupils sketching a future for education

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flagship new city centre building has been drawing inspiration from school pupils and Sheffield-based graffiti artists as it reaches an important stage in its development.

The pupils will work with artists David Cross and Philip Padfields from Treehouse Art to create artwork for the interior of the £30m Sheffield Institute of Education building in Charles Street, which opens in January next year.

The project was launched at a “topping out” ceremony for the Sheffield Hallam building, which will provide a home for the University’s teaching and education research, including its Autism Centre.

David, who studied youth work at Sheffield Hallam, said: “We have been getting youngsters to create a visual identity for the new building, which will house the next generation of education teaching and thinking.”

The seven-storey building, now at its highest point, features a concertinaeffect bridge designed by the University’s honorary doctor Corin Mellor, which will connect it to the University’s Arundel Building.

The innovative design of the building also includes a central walkway through Brown Lane, an existing road on the site, which will be fully enclosed by a glass atrium. The walkway, and the building

itself, will be open to the public.

The 9,500m-squared development includes a 300-plus seat lecture theatre, teaching rooms, learning spaces, staff spaces and a cafe.

The Sheffield Institute of Education is the largest teacher training provider in the Yorkshire & Humber region, and one of the largest in the country. More than 700 new teachers graduate each year Institute, with many staying in on in Sheffield to teach in the city’s schools.

The University has been working with architects Bond Bryan and developers Balfour Beatty on the project.

Professor Sam Twiselton, director of Sheffield Institute of Education, said: “Over the past few months we have seen this great commitment to education in teaching in Sheffield come to fruition.

“Sheffield Hallam’s involvement with teacher training goes back to 1905 when Sheffield Training College admitted its first 90 students so it’s absolutely fantastic that current pupils are helping to define the way education is taught and thought over the next century.”

Dr Iain Garner, head of department for Education, Childhood and Inclusion at Sheffield Hallam, added: “This new building places a strong emphasis on partnership working and being a home for the very best education teaching and research, in South Yorkshire and beyond.”

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Jon Adams, Balfour Beatty delivery unit managing director, said: “The Sheffield Institute of Education will provide a hub for future learning and at the same time retain a hint to the city’s industrial past with the use of traditional brickwork, Corten steel and the link bridge to the Arundel Building that has been designed

by Corin Mellor.”

Bond Bryan’s Matt Hutton, architect and associate director, said: “This building represents the final piece in the jigsaw on Arundel Gate and is a fantastic landmark for Sheffield city centre.

“It’s been a long journey to get to the topping out stage, but it’s a building the whole city can be proud of.” n For further information email pressoffice@shu.ac.uk

Sika Sarnafil projects come out on top It has been a fantastic year so far for Sika Sarnafil, with numerous projects, contractors and architects using its roofing products winning prestigious awards, right across the UK. Most recently, the Joseph Black Building at the King’s Buildings Campus at the University of Edinburgh won the Single Ply Roofing category in the tenth NFRC National Roofing Awards. Submitted by Briggs Amasco and project managed by Summers Inman, the refurbishment was recognised for its outstanding workmanship, as well as the aesthetic qualities of the roof. Sarnafil Membrane S327-15EL in patina green was installed, as the planners stipulated that the product must be in keeping with the rest of the copper roofs on the listed building. A flawless application of the Sarnafil membrane across an area with complex detailing and upstands sealed the victory for Briggs.

Earlier in the year at the RIBA South East Regional Awards, the top honour – Building of the Year Award – went to Haworth Tompkins for its restoration of the Chichester Festival Theatre. Described by the judges as a “true master-class in how to restore an existing iconic building”, Sika Sarnafil was specified to meet the complex acoustic requirements on

the main theatre roof.

The refurbishment also picked up the Sustainability Award, sponsored by Sika, and the Conservation Award. Its architect, Lucy Picardo of Haworth Tompkins, was awarded with the South’s Architect of the Year prize.

A further prize winning project, the £31 million Redcar Leisure and Community Centre, won the Regeneration Award at the RICS North East Awards. The project was part of the local council’s aim to get more people involved in sport and leisure

in the area.

Charles Pierce, National Sales Manager at Sika Sarnafil said: “2015 has been a great year for us thus far, with our products showcased across some really exciting and innovative projects. We’re proud to develop and supply a range of roofing products that help the architect realise their vision and the contractor achieve a top quality installation for the client.” n For more information on Sika Sarnafil’s products visit www.sarnafil.co.uk

Panasonic and Panopto show the future of education Over 40 representatives from universities across the UK and Ireland visited Panasonic’s UK Headquarters, to see the latest developments in technology for higher education.

The event at the Panasonic Solutions Centre in Bracknell consisted of product demonstrations and presentations from both Panasonic and lecture capture specialists Panopto, who delivered a keynote speech on anytime, anywhere learning.

Peter Ingle from Panopto EMEA showcased how video is being used to offer on-demand learning for students, from lecture capture to flipped classroom.

This was followed by a presentation from independent lecture capture consultant, John Lynch, who outlined the steps required for successful lecture capture by Universities.

Peter Ingle commented, “There’s been a huge trend in the education sector towards using video to support student learning. Coupled with the enormous growth in mobile devices, there’s an ever-greater need for universities and colleges to offer learning resources that students can access whenever, wherever – whatever device they’re using.

“Talking to universities at Panasonic’s Education Exhibition, it was clear to see that many institutions are really embracing this approach to teaching and learning. While lecture capture is becoming increasingly mainstream, a range of newer, innovative use cases for video are starting to emerge – from the flipped classroom to delivering video feedback on student assignments,” Peter Ingle concluded.

Visual learning was demonstrated by Panasonic with a range of projectors on show throughout the day; including the PT-RZ12K, a high brightness, 3-Chip DLP, 12,000 lumens laser projector. Projectors with Intel® Pro WiDi capability were also demonstrated, which can project content wirelessly from PC and Android™ devices for collaborative learning.

The latest Panasonic PTZ cameras were demonstrated in lecture capture environment. These can be operated through an iOS app with one touch movement. Attendees could also get hands on with Panasonic’s flagship cinematography camera, the VariCam 35, which can record in 4K and a number of other formats simultaneously. Panasonic Toughbook, EPOS systems, security

and communication solutions were also demonstrated at the show.

“Panasonic’s technology has long been enhancing the learning environment in education for both students and academics,” said Tom Gibson, Product Marketing Specialist at Panasonic Visual Solutions. “The Education Exhibition gave technology managers in higher education the opportunity to get hands on with the latest technology by Panasonic and our industry guests,” n For more information http://business. panasonic.co.uk/

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Work completes on the uk’s greenest commercial building The Enterprise Centre at the University of East Anglia is open for business following the completion of work on the highly innovative building, which sets the standard for sustainability.

The building forms a new gateway to the University and has achieved recordbreaking sustainability credentials. It is one of the first buildings to target both BREEAM Outstanding and Passivhaus accreditation.

It exemplifies the use of low embodied carbon materials and is designed to achieve a 100-year life span.

The vision was developed by the Adapt Low Carbon Group and delivered by Morgan Sindall plc, with a team including architects and Passivhaus designers Architype, structural and building services engineers BDP, and Churchman Landscape Architects.

Completed in June, the building features an innovation lab, a 300-seat lecture theatre, flexible workspaces, teaching and learning facilities, as well as business hatcheries and incubator units for SMEs and start-ups in the low carbon sector. By placing academic and commercial users side by side, the centre’s purpose is to foster innovation, stimulate smarter ways of working, promote industry standards and create new supply chains.

John French, CEO of the Adapt Low Carbon Group and Project Director for The Enterprise Centre, said: ‘I’m delighted with The Enterprise Centre and the finalised building. It’s finished to a beautifully high standard with many stunning features. The whole project has been somewhat of a labour of love for so many people involved across the whole project team and the extent of the innovative and environmentally sound initiatives and products which have been so enthusiastically adopted has been fantastic. The Adapt Group and UEA are very grateful to everyone involved.”

Gavin Napper, Morgan Sindall area director, said: “It’s been a great privilege to lead the project team on this pioneering scheme. The whole team has achieved industry-leading standards on this project and we’re incredibly proud of the collaborative, innovative, and resourceful approach, which they’ve taken from design inception to completion.

“This is a building which is deeply rooted in its surroundings. Our team’s commitment to using indigenous materials, like reed, clay, chalk and hemp, coupled with its focus on utilising local suppliers, contractors and craftspeople, gives the building a real sense

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of identity and enhances its connection to Norfolk. It’s been great to be able to harness these talents, skills, and products and merge them with the most current sustainable technologies and techniques to create this truly remarkable building which will play a valuable role in driving forward innovation in the region.”

Ben Humphries, Director of Architype and Client Supervisor, said: “With a deeprooted history and passion for genuinely sustainable design, we have been delighted to be involved in this collaborative, groundbreaking Passivhaus project. Visionary in its brief, we have responded with a design that has pushed at the boundaries of traditional approaches, and with the commitment and dedication of the site team, believe we have achieved a building that sets new benchmarks not only for the university but also the wider construction industry. With an on-going soft landings programme and three years of post-occupancy evaluation to come, we look forward to optimising the building performance for Adapt and the University.”

The building features a number of ‘world-firsts’; key among these is the use of prefabricated and vertically hung straw thatch panel cassettes, which have been used to clad the building. The straw was sourced locally, to fill timber cassette modules off-site in barns across Norfolk.

The prefabricated thatch cassette panels were erected onto the façade of the building, creating a striking, and highly innovative sustainable envelope.

Contributing to the building’s low carbon environmental credentials is the Corsican Pine stud work, locally sourced from Thetford Forest, situated 30 miles from the site. Working closely with Cygnum

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Timber Frame, The Forestry Commission and Thomson Saw Mill, the design and construction teams worked tirelessly to prove the suitability of the timber, generally not used in construction, for structural elements of the building.

Overall the embodied carbon of the building has been calculated to be 440kg/ CO2/sqm across the 100-year life cycle.

This equates to a quarter of the lifetime emissions of a conventionally constructed university building of equal size and scale.

Other innovations used to achieve this include the use of a recycled sub-base from a local demolition project and a 70% ground granulated blast furnace mix (GGBS) as a cement replacement for the building’s ground floor slab.

Underpinning all this has been a commitment by the whole team to create solutions that have been complementary to the rigorous requirements of Passivhaus as well as BREEAM outstanding. On target to achieve Passivhaus with a final airtightness test of 0.21ach@50pascals, the building also features 480m2 solar panels, which are predicted to generate 43.58 MWh in the first year.

A three-year post occupancy and building performance evaluation programme has been implemented with contributions from all team members to assist the occupiers to operate their building optimally and ensure the building performs as designed.

The scheme is being supported by the University of East Anglia, The European Regional Development Fund, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Buildings Research Establishment and the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (NALEP). n For more information please contact Ruth Cobban email cobban@thisisinfluential.com

94% felt that the exhibition was just the right length and size.

Percentage of attendees that felt the content and relevance of the plenaries was good or excellent.

93%

97% Percentage of attendees that thought the conference was a good use of their time.

Percentage of attendees that would definitely be returning in 2015, with 19% undecided.

74%

Technology firm’s new £6m campus development gets luxury finish Aliva UK has put a luxury monochrome finish on a state-of-the-art office development and datacentre for a Greater Manchester software firm.

A winning trio of natural stone, black terracotta and white bricks complete the exterior and interior look on the £6m 30,000 sq ft building for CDL. The Codeworks, which was designed by Edge Architects.

CoreM was construction manager.

CDL Group chairman and co-founder Tom Hogg handed Aliva a brief that also included a requirement for a natural stone entrance hall floor and 12m high lift shaft on the building at CDL’s riverside campus.

Aliva, the UK leader in façades and interior finishes, executed an interior that incorporated more than 200 sqm of grey Jura limestone with tight 5mm joints and monolithic corners to give a traditional stone-built look.

Outside, Aliva provided 500 sqm of black Grescovering terracotta rainscreen cladding

around an imposing three storey glass atrium. This, along with white Wienerberger bricks, created a crisp, high-tech façade.

Aliva sales director Justin Price said: “Tom worked with the architects on a host of creative ideas for the use of traditional stone, clay and brick on this beautiful building. Aliva took their vision and our expert design team translated it into a stand-out finish, incorporating high quality natural materials that give a very modern and unusual feel.”

Tom Hogg said: “The quality of the materials and technical work on the façade from Aliva UK were excellent, and the combination of stone and glass effectively evokes the binary code concept that lay behind the design. The new building looks stunning internally and externally, and its striking aesthetic contributes to the fabulous working environment we wanted The Codeworks to deliver.”

The building also has excellent

sustainability, with ample natural light, efficient lighting and glazing, photovoltaic tiles and a solar thermal system. It is A-rated for energy efficiency, exceeding the standards set out in current building regulations. n For further information, please visit www.alibauk.com

Kalwall is a good sport The Kalwall translucent system plays an important part in the design of many sports buildings. A good example is the new SportsDock at the University of East London’s Docklands Campus.

Here, the system not only diffuses natural daylight but also creates perfect playing conditions by eliminating glare and shadows. This means that there is no need for blinds, curtains or external shading.

With increased natural daylight and resistance to solar gain, energy-consuming artificial lighting and air-conditioning costs can be dramatically reduced.

The SportsDock was designed by Ball Hall in conjunction with Clague Architects to create a sense of clarity and legibility. Of particular note are the three dance studios exposed in the east elevation, which consist of double height spaces that are illuminated after dark, allowing passersby to see the silhouettes of activity within and creating a spectacular ‘animated’ effect.

The facility played a major role as the training headquarters for Team USA in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Now local residents can use the £21million sports facility complete with fitness centre, strength and conditioning room, two outdoor 3G five-a-side football pitches, indoor arenas, dance studios and sports café.

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Kalwall is distributed in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by Structura UK, a leading supplier, fabricator and installer of glass curtain walling, rainscreens, glass atria, windows and other architectural glass building products.

The company has recently had all three of its ISO certifications successfully

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renewed for three years: OHSAS 18001 Health and Safety Management, ISO 14001 Environmental Management certification and ISO 9001 Quality Management certification. n For further information, please visit www.structura-uk.com/kalwall

Goodman secures first letting for Eastside office scheme The regeneration of the city’s Eastside has taken a further step forward with global property group Goodman securing a letting agreement for 6 Cardigan Street, Eastside Locks. The 55,000 sq ft four storey office scheme, opening in 2016, will be let to Birmingham City University (BCU) as part of the continued expansion of its city centre campus.

Goodman commenced construction of the Cardigan Street office on a speculative basis in November 2014, anticipating early interest given Birmingham’s growing profile as an investment and business location, and the site’s location adjacent to the city’s planned HS2 Curzon Street station.

James Raven, Development Director, UK Business Parks Goodman, said: “Our belief in the city’s growth underpinned the decision to begin work on the Cardigan Street scheme as a speculative development last year.

“Birmingham is attracting record levels of inward investment, has more start ups than anywhere outside of the capital and tops the UK’s quality of living rankings for regional cities. With HS2 also moving forward, demand for developments in the city is set to rise and we are investing now to ensure Eastside can offer the high quality accommodation needed by tomorrow’s businesses.

“For Goodman, securing this lease with Birmingham City University during the early stages of construction will enable us to commit to the next phase of speculative office development and implement plans for the first amenity hub at Eastside Locks.

We look forward to announcing more details in the near future.”

The development of 6 Cardigan Street is the latest project in the first phase of Goodman’s partnership with Birmingham City Council and the Homes and Communities Agency. The partnership plans to build up to a total of 800,000 sq ft of office space at Eastside Locks together with shops, bars, restaurants, residential spaces and a hotel, all situated within a landscaped and managed environment alongside the Digbeth branch of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal.

Eastside, the largest regeneration project in Birmingham, continues to build its position as the city’s knowledge and innovation quarter.

Cliff Allan, Vice-Chancellor, Birmingham City University, said: “This is the next phase of our city centre campus expansion at Eastside, transforming a neglected part of central Birmingham into a thriving focal point for education.

“This development will allow us to bring more of our staff across from our Perry Barr site in support of all the work now taking place right in the middle of the UK’s second city.

“Through working with Goodman I am sure that we will have a fitting home for our administrative staff when they move in during 2016.”

Birmingham City University opened the first phase of its city centre campus in Eastside in 2013, building on its existing presence in Millennium Point. It is

currently developing a new Conservatoire on the campus, which is scheduled to complete in 2017. The head office of the University is also now located at the campus – University House is close to Hotel La Tour.

Eastside is home to other educational institutions including Birmingham Ormiston Academy and Aston University.

On completion, the 6 Cardigan Street scheme at Eastside Locks will provide premium office space, with a BREEAM rating of Very Good and an Energy Performance Certificate rating of B, suitable for the modern demands of BCU’s administrative function.

Leader of Birmingham City Council, Sir Albert Bore, said: “Eastside Locks represents a significant opportunity to further boost Birmingham’s economy and that of the region as a whole, attracting inward investment from international businesses and driving the growth of local organisations.

“The site is ideally placed to host an innovative business hub, positioned as it is, close to the heart of Birmingham’s vibrant city centre and served by first-class transport links.”

Eastside Locks is within walking distance of New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill rail stations, as well as located adjacent to the proposed HS2 station.

It also provides easy access to the M6 motorway, highlighting its convenience for commuters. n For further information please visit www.goodman.com

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Lights, camera, action! Lincoln installs new LED technology thanks to major funding award

The University of Lincoln will become one of the few higher education institutions in the UK to house film and television studios fully-equipped with state-of-the-art digital LED technology after securing a £500,000 grant.

Student filmmakers in universities tend to use traditional methods of changing coloured acetates on lighting rigs suspended from studio ceilings when producing media content. However the studios in Lincoln’s School of Film & Media will soon have digitally-controlled LED lighting installed throughout, enabling students to adjust lighting levels and colours at the touch of a button.

The state-of-the-art equipment, which is also highly energy efficient, will be installed this summer following a successful bid by the University of Lincoln to the Revolving Green Fund.

Created by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and supported

by Salix Finance Ltd, the Revolving Green Fund provides recoverable grants to help higher education institutions in England reduce emissions and save money. The initiative is currently in its fourth round of funding, and the money awarded to the University of Lincoln will support its commitment to reducing carbon emissions as well as improving the student experience.

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The first batch of coloured LED lighting was installed in the Lincoln School of Film & Media two years ago, and the new grant funding will now ensure all studio lighting will use the advanced technology. The lighting being removed uses 56,000 watts, whereas the new LEDs will only require around 10,000, and will also enable further energy savings as they don’t require the vast amounts of regulatory air conditioning that traditional lights do.

Steve Judge, Learning Advisor in the University’s Lincoln School of Film & Media, said: “Alongside enormous environmental savings, the change will also further enhance the experience of our students. Using LED technology saves a great deal of preparation time, which can instead be dedicated to teaching and learning, and dramatically increases opportunity for using lights in creative and experimental ways. ‘’Our students use the most advanced High Definition television cameras and vision mixers used in the broadcast industry, but it is rare for a university to have such advanced lighting equipment so readily available. This means that our students will have even more valuable experience when they take their next steps in the film and television industries.”

The LED installation is just one of many initiatives supported by the

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Revolving Green Fund. The grant will also enable the installation of new fans to enhance air circulation in the main Minerva Building’s atrium and new energy-efficient condensing boilers in on-campus student accommodation, as well as a range of other energy-saving projects.

Alison Wilmshurst, Carbon Reduction Manager at the University of Lincoln, said: “We are delighted that our bid to the Revolving Green Fund has been successful and that this grant will fund so many valuable projects across the University, with the potential for saving around 400 tonnes of carbon emissions. With a growing campus and increasingly high-tech facilities, we have been working hard to reduce our energy consumption, energy costs and carbon emissions. The Revolving Green Fund grant represents a significant step towards us achieving our carbon reduction goal.”

In November 2014, the University of Lincoln was awarded a Green Award – the highest level of accreditation from the nationwide Investors in the Environment (iiE) scheme – in recognition of its commitment to reducing environmental impact. n Further information can be found at: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk

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Elfin compact kitchens drive comfort behind student living Safe and convenient, the space-saving, allin-one compact kitchens from Elfin Kitchens are a smart and increasingly popular choice for student landlords.

Designed for small spaces such as studio flats and student houses of multiple occupancy (HMO), Elfin Kitchens’ compact kitchen range provide cooking, cooling and storage facilities in a sleek modular kitchen unit. Easily fitted into corners and alcoves of student accommodation, the kitchen units can also be installed as freestanding entities.

With more than 700,000 full-time firstyear university enrolments in 2013-14, the summer ‘void’ period for student landlords is the perfect time to repair or replace damaged and worn kitchens. This small investment can transform a residence, increasing the properties rentability, and potentially, rent fee.

With student numbers expected to increase by up to 60,000, the private student-renting sector is set to experience continued growth, with 45% of current students housed by the independent sector.

Ideal for the student lifestyle, each Elfin kitchen is made from hardwearing, powder-

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coated steel. This ensures the kitchen will withstand all the lumps and bumps associated with university life as well as require only warm soapy water and a soft cloth to keep it looking clean and new – little effort for even the busiest of students!

Offered in 4 sizes 900, 1000, 1200 and 1500mm wide, the Elfin mini-kitchen is a stylish space saver, incorporating a storage cupboard, sink, drainer with monobloc tap, A+ rated fridge with freezer compartment, a 20 or 30L combination microwave oven

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with or without hotplates and the option to upgrade to ceramic. Safety is a priority for all landlords letting to students, which is why each kitchen fitted with hot plates comes with a 30-minute cut-out timer, effectively reducing the risks associated with student cooking.

Easily installed, Elfin Kitchens operate a ‘drop-in, plug-in’ installation that requires no training, which means the kitchen fully operational as soon as its tap tails and waste pipes are connected and appliances plugged in. Elfin offers a wide selection additions including splashbacks, worktop extensions, wall cupboards and extraction all of which are built using the same high quality materials.

Usually delivered within 10 working days, replacing the kitchen in your student let needn’t be the stressful, time-consuming project it appears to be.

“More than 3,700 of our compact kitchens have been fitted into student accommodation providing safe, convenient and smart mini kitchens for university lets.

Students need a hardwearing kitchen, which doesn’t take up valuable space within their room or HMO, as the kitchen is one of the main areas for socialising.” Says Bob Andrew, Managing Director of Elfin Kitchens.

“Each kitchen comes with quality branded appliances, available in left-hand or righthanded versions, providing each student with all the cooking facilities they need in a stylish compact unit.”

For larger refurbishments and new built Elfin can design and build kitchens that meet the clients exact requirements and can be made in different sizes, colours and incorporate specific appliances where volumes allow, to date our largest project has been over 700 bespoke kitchens to one new build in London. n For more information on Elfin Kitchens, please visit www.elfinkitchens.co.uk

Chair of Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership launches Leeds Trinity University Enterprise Centre

Leeds Trinity University’s Enterprise Centre – a facility that is designed to foster students’ entrepreneurial skills to help budding new business ventures get off the ground – has been officially launched this week.

Roger Marsh, Chair of the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership, officially launched the Enterprise Centre and communicated the importance of empowering entrepreneurs of the future to realise their true potential.

The launch event was attended by key figures from regional universities and the business community, together with a number of students who are all utilising the Enterprise Centre. The students presented an overview of their business plans and shared insights into their start-up journey so far.

Roger Marsh commented: “It was an honour to be asked to officially launch the Enterprise Centre at Leeds Trinity University. The University’s commitment to support students in launching their own business is admirable and aligns with the

real turning-point in getting Joe’s business off the ground. The relationship is in its infancy, but initially Joe is working with the company on bespoke commissions with a long-term view to have his work listed on its site to bolster sales of Joe’s artwork.

Joe comments: “What started out as a hobby is fast becoming a genuine business and that’s thanks to the support, insight and encouragement from the team at Leeds Trinity University.

“The Enterprise Centre has helped shape the way I’m looking at my future. I’ve always loved art, but didn’t dare dream that it could play such a huge role in my future. Being able to sell two years’ worth of my A Level art LEP’s vision to unlock the potential of the sparked an initial idea but it wasn’t until I had Leeds City Region by supporting growing businesses. The facilities, coupled with the a conversation with Phil Williams, a careers and employability consultant who is heavily mentoring provided by the University, are involved in the creation of the Enterprise first-class and exactly what is needed to Centre, that I realised the potential of my nurture business leaders of the future and help students on their way to fulfilling their hobby and what it could lead onto. Phil was instrumental in me gaining the commission career aspirations.” from the student bar, which led to me selling The Enterprise Centre is a campusmy posters at the Freshers’ Fair, which in turn based building that has been purposely helped to establish a profile for my work on transformed into a space that provides campus. facilities and support for students and “Aside from having access to meeting alumni to help them develop their ideas for rooms, brainstorm zones, workspace and all business start-ups. Leeds Trinity University the technology and equipment you’d expect students and alumni now have free access in a traditional office environment, probably to business mentoring services, as well the best asset of the Enterprise Centre is the as meeting rooms, break-out zones, office team and people using the space that you and hot-desking space, a conference room get to engage with. Being able to thrash out and all the up-to-date technology and ideas, discuss ways to approach situations equipment you would expect to find in an and look for tips from people who are all on office environment. similar journeys has proved really helpful.

One of the students using the Enterprise There’s a real community feel about the Centre who presented his business to the centre and it’s inspiring to work among launch event attendees is 20-year-old Joe people who are all trying to carve out their Edge. Joe is a second-year student in the own future by turning a passion or hobby into Department of Media, Film and Culture a real job.” at Leeds Trinity University and founder of Howard Nelson, Chief Operating Officer EdgyArts. Describing himself as an urban and University Secretary at Leeds Trinity artist, Joe works on mixed media projects, University, adds: using acrylic spray paint and stencils to “It is vitally important that we support and create Banksy-esque popular culture artwork and posters. His art predominately help feed students’ entrepreneurial spirit, and that is exactly what the Leeds Trinity involves famous faces and icons such as Enterprise Centre and its team is gearedJohn Lennon, Martin Luther King, Dolly up to achieve. The set-up of the Enterprise Parton and David Bowie.

Centre, with all the mod cons that you would Friends and family have always been expect of a working office along with access supportive, but it was at Joe’s end of year A Level Art Show – where every piece of his to mentoring, means our students and alumni are able to conduct themselves in two year artwork collection sold out – that a professional manner and set themselves he realised there was wider interest in his work. He is currently fostering a relationship up on the right path to succeed. The space is already becoming booked up, which is with GB eye –one of the world’s leading testament to the entrepreneurial spirit of our poster providers. It sells posters in more student and alumni community.” than 60 countries and could prove to be a

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SRH University heidelberg becomes the first european university to join netsuite suiteacademy program German University Brings Cloud to the Classroom by Adding NetSuite to Bachelor’s Degree Curriculum NetSuite Inc. the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commercesoftware suites, today announced that SRH University Heidelberg (SRH), with more than 3,000 students on campuses in Heidelberg, Germany, has joined the NetSuite SuiteAcademy program, an educational program designed to bring cloud-based business management solutions to university classrooms worldwide. SRH is the first university in Europe to join the program, and is among a growing number of universities and colleges to partner with NetSuite through the SuiteAcademy program, which offers no-cost NetSuite licensing, resources, and training to help schools equip students with the next-generation cloud IT and business skills prized by today’s employers.

“The SuiteAcademy Program has grown tremendously since its inception in 2011, and continues to enable universities to build comprehensive curriculums that prepare their students for the realworld,” said Mark Bidwell, Associate Director, Educational Programs, NetSuite.

“SRH joining our program further validates that hands-on experience with cloud technology is invaluable to students and employers alike.”

SuiteAcademy has reached more than 25,000 students worldwide since its introduction in 2011 and has partnered with some of the world’s leading educational institutions including Purdue University, UCLA, University of Texas at Austin, Arizona State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The University of Santo Tomas and Far Eastern University in the Philippines. For more information, please visit www.netsuite.com/suiteacademy.

“For our students studying business informatics, it’s essential to learn a good combination of theory and practice,” said Dr. Gerd Moeckel, Dean of the School of Informatics at SRH UniversityHeidelberg.

“The cloud is the future of software, and bringing NetSuite into our curriculum for hands-on training will help educate

our students on the most up-to-date and sophisticated business management software.”

SRH is incorporating NetSuite into its informatics curriculum for classes on supply chain and logistics and on sales management and CRM (customer relationship management), continuing its commitment to providing its students with state-of-the-art technology. Integrating SuiteAcademy into the degree curriculum provides SRH students and professors with new flexibility for anywhere, anytime learning over the web, freeing them from the need to access on-premise software in classrooms and labs, and broadening education beyond campus boundaries.

SRH’s participation in the SuiteAcademy program aligns with a shift towards cloud computing adoption in Europe, as organisations deploy cloud solutions to realise greater cost efficiencies as well as improved visibility and business performance.

As one of the oldest and largest private universities in Germany, SRH sets the standard for tertiary education and offers great opportunities for students to gain a successful start to their careers.

The distinguished ‘Heidelberg Study

Model’ practiced at SRH places special emphasis on the optimal mix of theory and practice.

“NetSuite makes anytime, anywhere hands-on learning and education possible,” said Michael Schlecht, Guest Lecturer at SRH University Heidelberg.

“Our students will gain highly soughtafter skills that today’s employers covet, as more companies migrate to NetSuite cloud-based business management.”

Driven by the growing global demand for teaching NetSuite cloud solutions in tertiary education programs, the SuiteAcademy program puts NetSuite software and academic-developed curriculum in the hands of students.

The NetSuite SuiteAcademy program provides the next generation of business leaders with the competitive advantages of real-world cloud software experience and with practical IT skills aligned to the global shift towards cloud computing. Curriculum incorporating NetSuite afford students experience across the core disciplines that are built into NetSuite’s single business management suite including accounting, CRM, ecommerce, and logistics.

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Mayor of London Boris Johnson has officially opened Warwick Business School’s new base at The Shard.

More than 50 guests watched Mr Johnson unveil a glass sculpture to commemorate the opening of the new site on the 17th floor of the 95-storey building - the tallest in the European Union.

At the heart of the London Bridge Quarter neighbourhood, one of London’s most vibrant and fast developing districts, WBS London will see part-time postgraduate courses and executive education delivered from one of the capital’s most iconic buildings.

Mr Johnson said: “Our city is a world leading centre for higher education and Warwick Business School is a welcome addition to the first class academia that can be found here.

“The Shard is an inspirational venue and I’m sure the students that come here will find successful careers within our city’s thriving business sectors.”

Evening courses for MSc Finance and MSc Human Resource Management & Employment Relations are already being taught at WBS London with the two-year, part-time Executive MBA set to be delivered from September from the 306-metre skyscraper.

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WBS London by the Dean of WBS, Professor Mark Taylor, and University of Warwick ViceChancellor, Professor Sir Nigel Thrift.

WBS London houses a 100-seat lecture theatre and a smaller one at 60 seats, plus eight seminar rooms and an IT lab. Designed

by Italian architect Renzo Piano and opened in July 2012, The Shard is just minutes from the City, the financial capital of the world.

Professor Taylor said: “We are delighted to have the Mayor of London open our new premises. This is a very exciting development for WBS; to establish a base in one of London’s most iconic buildings is a tremendous moment for the School.

“London is one of the great capitals of the world and a global financial centre, so it seems only right that one of Europe’s top business schools should have a presence there. We will bring our academic excellence to London to help form the business leaders and City professionals of the future.

“The University of Warwick has a great history of being entrepreneurial and a world innovator, and this move to The Shard continues that spirit of enterprise and ambition to do things differently.

“The Shard is a spectacular sight on

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the London skyline and is a fitting base for Warwick Business School, which has creativity at the heart of its business teachings.”

Founded in 1967, Warwick Business School currently attracts 6,500 students from 125 different countries and has recently begun work on a £30m state-of-the-art extension of its current facilities at the University of Warwick.

The distance-learning MBA at WBS was ranked second in the world by the Financial Times, who also rated its executive MBA in the world’s top 20.

“We want to become the leading universitybased business school in Europe and a base at The Shard will be another step towards that,” said Professor Taylor, who worked in the City as a managing director for BlackRock before taking over as Dean at WBS in 2010.

“We are already in Europe’s top bracket, but we want to keep pushing upwards and a presence in London will help us do that.

Our mission is to produce and disseminate world-class research and world-class business leaders, while providing a lifelong return on investment for our students and alumni.”

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Ideal conditions Ideal commercial boilers make the grade at the university of london

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deal Commercial Boilers has supplied a total of eight floor standing condensing boilers to the University of London as part of the University’s ongoing environmental initiative to reduce carbon emissions and minimise running costs through ongoing refurbishment projects. The Evomod and Imax Xtra floor standing boilers have been installed in three student accommodation buildings and are now delivering reliable, high efficiency heating.

Two Evomod 1,000kW floor standing modular boilers were installed at International Hall,

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which is located in the Bloomsbury district, and four Imax Xtra 460kW at Lillian Penson Hall, situated near Paddington station. Most recently, another two Evomod 1,000kW boilers were installed at Connaught Hall in Bloomsbury.

The Evomod and Imax Xtra boilers were specified by contracting firm McDonald Brown, who worked on the project with Duncan Clough, Senior Project Manager at the University of London. McDonald Brown’s Director Bill Bones explained, “We have specified Ideal Commercial boilers for a number of projects and have found them to be straightforward

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to install, extremely reliable and highly efficient. In addition, Ideal Commercial Boilers always provides excellent technical backup throughout the year. The Ideal Commercial technical team, even senior management, are on site very quickly whenever we need their input, which makes a big difference to the speed of each installation.”

International Hall is the largest single Hall belonging to the University of London and offers a total of 997 student rooms.

The boiler room is located in the basement and, with the access points into the building being limited in

size, the replacement boilers needed to be compact whilst still delivering the high outputs required. As well as offering exceptional energy efficiencies of up to 108.5% net, the Evomod boiler models were selected due to their modular configuration, as each module was light and compact enough to be lowered into the basement via an on-road portable crane before being transported easily into the boiler room.

Access issues were even more challenging at Connaught Hall, as the boiler room is located in a courtyard surrounded by buildings. If the team at McDonald Brown had been unable to find a suitable boiler that could fit through the existing doorways, Bill and the team would have needed to hire a large crane to lift the appliances over the building, involving time and financial costs such as a six week notice to shut off the adjacent road.

Bill Bones affirmed, “Once again, the compact Evomod boilers were perfect for our requirements. Due to

their modular design, once in position they simply need to be bolted together with a pre-fabricated manifold before being attached to the pipework, so installation is always quick and easy.

In all cases, the Ideal Commercial representatives who commissioned the boilers have been extremely helpful, giving technical and maintenance advice throughout and working to a very high standard. Commissioning at Connaught Hall was completed within two days.”

Lillian Penson Hall, which offers 330 student rooms, also had some complex requirements as the previous heating system incorporated oil-fired boilers. Duncan Clough, Senior Project Manager at the University of London, explained, “Alongside McDonald Brown, we designed a new plant room to accommodate the compact Imax Xtra boilers, and then reused one of the original boiler spaces as a distribution point. This made the most economical use of the space we

had.” The lightweight design of the Imax Xtra boilers enabled them to be manoeuvred by hand down a sloping car park and into the basement boiler room, where they were quickly installed and commissioned.

Since the installation of the Evomod and Imax Xtra boilers, energy savings at each student hall have been recorded, with impressive results.

Duncan affirms, “We are delighted with the energy savings that have been recorded since the installation of these boilers. At Lillian Penson Hall, the Imax Xtra boilers have reduced running costs by a third compared with the previous oil-fired boiler and, importantly for the University’s environmental objectives, we have calculated that carbon emissions from heating have reduced from 753 tonnes CO2e per year to 277 tonnes CO2e per year. Fuel usage at International Hall has also significantly reduced, with savings of over 15%, and running costs are g

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already noticeably lower at Connaught Hall. As well as delivering impressive cost and carbon savings, the boilers have been running trouble-free since they were commissioned, keeping our students warm and comfortable.”

In addition to providing heat for the student’s rooms, the heating system in each hall also serves a bar, kitchen, dining room, laundry room and games room.

The Evomod floor standing range is a highly specified, energy efficient and easy-to-install boiler option suitable for numerous commercial buildings.

Available in four outputs of 250, 500, 750 and 1000kW, Evomod offers one of the smallest footprints on the market for the available outputs and can be stacked up to three modules high to further maximise plant room space.

Evomod utilises a stainless steel heat exchanger and the latest heating technology to achieve exceptional net efficiencies of up to 108.5%, exceeding Part L2, and energy use is further minimised by an impressive turndown ratio of up to 20:1. In addition, the high efficiency of the Evomod range still exceeds the stringent assessment criteria required for inclusion on the Energy Technology List (ETL), making these boilers eligible for the Government’s Enhanced Capital Allowance scheme.

The Ideal Commercial Boilers Imax Xtra range is available in a total of ten outputs; 80kW to 280kW as single modules and 320kW to 560kW as master-slave sequence modules, with all options offering low NOx Class 5 performance and extremely high net efficiencies of up to 108.2% at part load, exceeding Part L2 requirements. Each boiler utilises a robust cast aluminium-silicon alloy heat exchanger which incorporates a fully modulating premix burner with gas and air control, ensuring excellent efficiency throughout its firing cycle even down to 20% of the maximum rating.

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STUDENT ACCOMMODATION

Source code

Winner of the 2014 ProCon ‘Best Regeneration Project’, the riverside student village at Western Road, Leicester has revitalised a derelict, inner city suburb.

Architect, James Badley of rg+p Ltd discusses how the village was designed to blend old with new and showcase how top quality, cost-effective student accommodation can be created by regenerating historical spaces…

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ituated on a narrow, waterside side, Western Road was historically characterised by mill buildings, factories

and commercial spaces central to Leicester’s industrial heartland.

After a steady decline, many of these buildings were left redundant

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and the land was earmarked for redevelopment. Due to the close proximity of both DeMontfort and Leicester Universities, the site was

identified as highly viable for a student housing complex.

“Working closely with the local authority and CODE Students, who was our client, we created a dual purpose design for the village’s exterior. On the western boundary, the site is faced with traditional Victorian terraced housing so this limited the height, density and material palette we could use, whereas to the east, the river frontage extended in excess of 120m, meaning we had scope for creativity. The result combined traditional brick finishes and feature detailing with modern rendering techniques to create a facade that was sympathetic to its environment, whilst also providing a suitable backdrop to the neighbouring Bede Park. Consideration was given to the site’s orientation to maximise natural light and surrounding landscaping was designed to give good

quality communal space for outdoor use.

“Constructed in three phases with each phase being ready for the beginning of the academic year, Western Road comprises 750 bed spaces, gym, delicatessen, café, recreation rooms, private cinema and quiet study areas.

Steel frame, pre-panellised construction enabled fast track delivery whilst flexible and innovative design ensured overall efficiency.

“A fabric first approach was adopted from the outset, with good air tightness and high levels of insulation specified to reduce the amount of energy consumed.

Unusually for a student developer, CODE places a strong emphasis on low energy living, so each room was individually metered in order for students to take responsibility for their own energy consumption. Photovoltaics were

positioned on the roofs of the buildings and this ensured that 14% of the village’s total energy consumption is provided by renewable technologies.

“In the wider community, the creation of Western Road student village has enabled the repatriation of local families to existing housing previously occupied by students, as well as provided a blueprint for neighbouring landowners to consider further, similar expansion along the waterside.

“The challenge for a scheme of this nature, of course, was to balance the financial constraints without compromising on quality and overall student experience. Often new, formulaic buildings don’t necessarily generate good experiences; rather an environment has to be created that will engender a sense of community, safety, g interaction and be conducive to study.

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“With Western Road, we used a standard palette of materials to keep within budget whilst at the same time being visually appealing. For example, rendering often causes problems with staining via placement of ventilation units so we incorporated smaller vents into the window heads, meaning air could drip down alongside rainwater, leaving the rendering intact.

“Whilst cost was imperative, the consideration shown to students and end users has determined the true success of Western Road. With the popularity of social media, video and photo sharing channels, there can be no room for error. Discerning students, especially from overseas, expect hotel standards when choosing living accommodation and with the overall marketplace being wholly transient, creating adaptable, aesthetic spaces

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is essential. CODE has pioneered this approach. Flexibility was built into the ground floor design so that a bespoke set of amenities, addressing real requirements, could be developed post-completion.

“CODE has been highly acclaimed for this progressive attitude, with the village winning numerous awards for customer service and the quality of its management. The building’s design has been widely acknowledged too, and in addition to winning ProCon Leicestershire’s ‘Best Regeneration Project’, Western Road was also presented with the Civic Society’s Award for Architecture in 2012.

“Western Road has become a real flagship scheme for not just those involved with the project, but also for Leicester itself, creating an iconic landmark on the city’s skyline. It has

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demonstrated how a sympathetic yet skilful design can revive a jaded neighbourhood and bring positive socio-economic change. You could say it cracked the code!” rg+p has over 30 years’ experience delivering award-winning schemes across the UK from its offices in Leicester and London. James Badley is currently working on student accommodation schemes totalling in excess of 1000 bed spaces.

PROJECT FACTS & FIGURES Scheme Value: £70m Architect/Planning Consultant: rg+p Ltd Client: CODE Students Contractor: Winvic Building Ltd Engineer: PRP Consulting Employers Agent: MDA Consulting n For further information please contact jbadley@rg-p.co.uk

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Protecting the masses

UCF Protects Campus with Integrated and Redundant Mass Notification System

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n order to provide a safe and secure campus community, the University of Central Florida (UCF), located in Orlando, wanted to equip itself with the latest in emergency communication systems.

This was no small feat for the largest university in Florida and second largest in the nation. The institution has more than 59,000 students plus nearly 11,000 employees, across 9 regional campuses.

Prior to the Virginia Tech shooting, UCF had a security task force in place. One of the key issues that they discussed was the need for a mass

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notification system, taking a pro-active approach to make the campus safe.

Then Virginia Tech happened and like other campuses, the MNS project was moved quickly though UCF’s approval process.

As a former security forces and anti-terrorism force protection officer in the U.S. Air Force, UCF’s Director of Emergency Management, Jeff Morgan applied his security experience to help develop an MNS for the university.

“I like to refer to what we needed as layers in an onion,” says Morgan. “We wanted a mass notification solution that had several layers, layers for

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redundancy. It is important to design a system that is both integrated and redundant for several reasons.”

“First, integration enables faster notification through all of the MNS solutions, from outdoor warning systems to mass E-mails and from digital display signs to in-building notification systems. We were looking for a one-button, simple solution.

Secondly, it’s just more efficient. We know that our dispatchers can be overwhelmed in an emergency, and we wanted something easy for them to use, clicking the mouse a couple of times versus signing in

four or five different systems. Thirdly, the redundancy aspect allows us to reach out to faculty, staff, students and guests in more than one way.”

Relying on just one technology could result in a large part of the population not receiving the message.

UCF Takes a Step-by-Step Approach University officials first looked at their current infrastructure and identified communication systems that were already in place. They discovered that UCF’s phone systems were not designed for reliability in contacting the masses and E-mail was the only system being used at the time. However, they did find that they could use existing voice capable fire alarm control panels (FACP) to save on equipment and installation costs for indoor notification.

“One of our benefits was that we didn’t have a bunch of disparate communication systems that needed to be integrated,” says Morgan. “We could basically start from scratch.”

Searching for vendors was the next step. Liability was an important factor in the search. UCF started looking for vendors with approved MNS products from the Department of Homeland Security’s Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act (SAFETY Act), which would provide legal liability protection for the institution in the event of a terrorism act. Eaton was the only vendor that had this certification for an MNS product, which included WAVES In-building and Wide-Area MNS solutions.

Morgan says that since the university borders two counties – Orange and Seminole – he reached out to them to see what type of public warning systems they had in place. Both counties utilize the Roam Secure Alert Network (RSAN) emergency text and voice alerting system, also provided by Eaton.

“Using RSAN seemed like a natural fit so that we could tie our system to the county systems,” adds Morgan.

“Located near UCF is Valencia

College, which also utilizes RSAN, it was the best solution for all to have one integrated and interoperable emergency communications system.

The fact that RSAN could be integrated with the WAVES was also a critical factor in our selection process.”

Through Eaton’s Roam Secure Information Exchange (RSIX), UCF and Valencia RSAN systems can share in real-time daily information and emergency messages between campuses as well as with the Orange County system, OC Alert and Seminole County system, Alert Seminole. RSIX can help mobilize additional resources when needed and improve situational awareness. It also connects campus and county officials to local information sources (traffic, news, National Weather Service and monitoring systems) to automate alerting.

University Adopts Opt-Out Registration At the same time, the university began further developing their current emergency operations guide into a comprehensive emergency management plan, which includes communication directives and a list of who has authority to send messages.

One element they added was how

they were going to get students, staff and faculty to sign up for UCF Alert (emergency.ucf.edu/ucfalert), the emergency notification system powered

by RSAN. Morgan says that when they conducted research on either choosing an opt-in or opt-out option, they found that with opt-in, only 20-30 percent of students would sign up for E-mail and text message notifications. This required students, faculty, and staff to log onto the Web site themselves and fill out their contact information.

“We chose an opt-out option, in which we signed up 100 percent of the UCF community,” he says. “Every student, faculty and staff member is initially signed into the system. They can then choose to opt-out at their discretion.”

As of March 2012, the university has 67,883 enrolled on UCF Alert, which includes faculty, staff, students, county personnel and local first responders.

It’s All About Integration While UCF was implementing UCF Alert, it began installing WAVES high power speaker arrays on the campus for exterior voice alerting. This intrusive system sends out emergency messages in real time and has the capability of alerting the entire g campus or individual areas, depending on

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the scope of the emergency.

The reasons the UCF officials chose WAVES HPSAs are because it’s a giant voice system that not only gets attention with tones, but also provides clear, intelligible voice announcements with specific instructions in the event of an emergency. There are currently seven HPSAs providing emergency notification to the 1,450-acre plus academic campus, including a mobile speaker array that is used for special events and football games. HPSAs function as an integral component of the WAVES system controlled by its integrated base station (IBS), which issues commands and provides data messages to the WAVES transceivers, relaying the messages to the HPSAs. School Utilizes Existing Infrastructure Next, the plan was to integrate 30 buildings that have the voice-capable FACPs with WAVES so that the indoor and outdoor notification systems could be activated through one system. By installing digital wireless transceivers within the buildings to connect to the FACPs, this allowed the university to use existing infrastructure and save on installation costs. Today, there are currently 48 integrated buildings. In addition, one outdoor digital display sign has been integrated with the MNS, and the university is looking to integrate it interior signs as well as 300 desktop radios, and the campus’

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television and radio stations.

Involve Wide Variety of Campus Departments “It’s important to bring various departments together, including IT, police, building code, fire marshal, fire code, facilities improvement and maintenance, and involve them in the design of your system,” says Morgan.

“For example, IT was critical to the type of system that we were selecting given the fact that they control all of the wireless frequencies on campus.

During football games, we have a lot of television and radio broadcasters on campus. We required a secure, wireless system, like WAVES, that will not interfere with other wireless systems no matter how large our special events are.”

Morgan adds that they also needed buy-in from the university police department in order to host and manage the integrated base station (IBS) as well as participate in exercises and drills. The code department needed to know what was going into and onto buildings to help get proper plans and documentation signed off to allow the project to stay on schedule as well as meet all code and university standards.

Florida Dept. of Ed Helps Fund MNS With UCF’s proactive approach, the university funded the majority of the MNS through university funding.

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However, for the five additional indoor notification systems that are currently being installed, UCF is utilizing a grant from the Florida Department of Education. In addition, the UCF construction standards were revised so that any new facility will have an indoor MNS installed and will be covered under the new construction funds.

System Warns of Life-Threatening Situations “Our rule for sending out messages is that we don’t send out a notification unless it’s life threatening or has a large impact on our campus community,” says Morgan. Since UCF has had its integrated MNS in place, the university has issued alerts for tornado and severe weather warnings.

According to Morgan, the system was also used during a bomb threat in one of the parking garages on campus.

UCF sent text messages to the entire campus community to inform them to stay away from the garage until it was deemed safe by emergency personnel.

WAVES indoor MNS was used to send isolated alerts to those staff and students located in the buildings, surrounding the garage to stay indoors until they received further notice. Once the situation was safe, the indoor MNS also issued notification to let those in the buildings know it was safe so that they could return to normal operations.

By integrating RSAN, WAVES and other systems into one user-friendly solution, UCF campus officials can now communicate to everyone via a single, secure, interface.

“Eaton’s interoperable system allows users to focus on the emergency at hand, not getting bogged down with utilizing multiple systems,” said Morgan. “With the click of mouse, our mass notification solution allows dispatchers to deliver live or recorded event-specific messages within seconds to sirens, indoor and outdoor speakers as well as cell phones and E-mail.” n For further information please contact www.eton.com

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ACCESS CONTROL

First class access ACT protect education sites of all sizes and the company’s R&D department realises that in no other sector is it more important to balance provision of immediate access for staff and legitimate visitors against the need to control and document entrance and egress.

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cademic managers want to deal with access control manufacturers who offer solutions including enterprise-wide networked software, readers, door stations, controllers, cards, readers and fobs that can cater for the widest range of users. The academic sector requires processing of extensive enrolment details and large-scale card generation, with users often expecting to be able to populate the access control database from third-party products.

Education clients in the public sector also appreciate the economies that come from the fact that ACT’s systems use an open standards platform which allows retention of legacy reader technology. Audio door entry control is used by many ACT customers in the education sector who need to validate site entry by contractors. Pupils’ cards can also be used for cashless vending which is a major benefit.

Many clients in the academic sector are longstanding users who have

migrated to successive product suites as the ACT offering has evolved.

One such customer is The Sheffield College in South Yorkshire, a multi-site campus with a student population of 23,000 spread over three locations with courses including entry level and higher academic education as well as vocational study. The college has now begun using the ACTpro eLock which can be operated with up to 32 locks per eLock hub and features both visual and audible alerts.

The original and core products used in Sheffield have been ACTpro controllers which have been installed on more than 150 doors, primarily in building entrances. ACT have not only shown their open-system credentials by integrating with third-party readers from CardPOS Europe, but have also customised their management software to function alongside the college’s enrolment system.

ACT’s developers created a synchronisation tool which has facilitated an XML drop by which the

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college enrolment database populates the ACT database without any rekeying or risk of duplication. Even a conservative estimate indicates there has been a saving of 23 man days per year which would otherwise have been spent on data entry.

Installation of the ACT door controllers is ongoing, and the units have been used extensively at a new location within the campus, the £60m Sheffield City College supported by funding from the Learning and Skills Council (now the Skills Funding Agency.) The building, which features a striking seven-storey tower and glass atrium, has more than 50 teaching rooms including training hair and beauty salons, science laboratories, a catering wing and restaurant for the public, student refectory and a learning resource centre. It has been praised for green energy usage based on solar panels and wind turbines.

Mark Jackson of integrators CCS Ltd said: “Educational establishments frequently have a large flow of

enrolment details in a short period, with even students who are simply progressing to the next year needing to be re-registered. ACT proved responsive with business rules, bespoke data mapping and programming that was tailored for this application. The solution was a collaborative process between all the stakeholders and has resulted in accuracy and traceability.”

Students with impaired mobility are able to activate the door controllers through proximity scanning of their cards at turnstiles. The project is IPaddressable throughout and CCS also installed networked CCTV, the cameras being a mixture of static and dome units from Dedicated Micros and eneo. There is a dedicated 24-hour CCTV monitoring

centre at Hillsborough College to the north of Sheffield city centre. Like all crucial site areas, this is fitted with the ACT door controllers. The ACTpro twodoor controllers used here are expandable to 16 doors using ACTpro door stations.

The units are networkable to 2,000 doors and can be used with ‘Clock & Data’ and ‘Weigand’ format readers.

An ACT installation being finished as In Security went to press is Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, a mixed comprehensive school in Wales. Ysgol Dyffryn Aman has 1,600 pupils studying across a large campus with a sixth form of over 300. Staff and students are benefiting from protection offered by ACTpro 4000 door controllers and ACTpro door stations on interior and g perimeter doors. The ACT hardware uses

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low bandwidth and auto-discovery for easy installation and maintenance combined with advanced features such as timed anti-passback and counting areas.

Staff at the school activate doors using 13.56MHz MIFARE fobs and ACTpro MIFARE 1030PM readers which, unlike many competitor brands, can read data from any of the 16 sectors on a card so offering the extra security levels required for education applications. Typical usage at the school is for specialised teaching areas such as science laboratories and infrastructure including plant rooms.

The system is configured with time zones so that doors to common areas open automatically during breaks and lunchtime and subsequently relock.

The access control system at the school has been extended to secure a link with an adjacent public leisure complex featuring two swimming pools, an athletics track, Astroturf pitches and a gymnasium. School administrators are able to use ACT management software to track door

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usage and analyse trends in movement around the site as well as designing and printing identity cards.

Dyfed Alarms has secured 50 doors with ACT units while the school conducts phased refurbishments block by block.

Ysgol Dyffryn Aman is a co-educational non-denominational school located in Ammanford at the foot of the Black Mountains with a large catchment area covering both rural and urban neighbourhoods in Carmarthenshire.

In its most recent Estyn inspection (equivalent to Ofsted in England) the school was adjudged ‘good.’

Des John, Business Development Manager at Dyfed Alarms, said: “The fact that we have been using ACT on successive modular installations over three years at the school is testimony to the build quality and reliability of the products. For this kind of educational installation, ACT is the only company we specify. The technical support is first-rate and in the rare event of a problem, engineers always come to the site promptly. We are currently using ACT equipment at

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another school in Whitland, also in the county of Carmarthenshire.”

Classes at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman reflect and enhance the bi-lingual nature of the area. Many students represent their county and country at sports. In its current and former identities, the school has produced impressive alumni. Past pupils include the prominent zoologist Prof Donald Arthur, musician John Cale (founder member of The Velvet Underground), international soccer player Dai Davies and international rugby players Don Tarr and Shane Williams.

From a Carmarthen base, Dyfed Alarms covers West, Mid and South Wales. Founded in 1977 and an independent company, it is one of the largest suppliers and installers of access control, CCTV, and fire detection equipment in Wales. Dyfed Alarms’ operations include education, healthcare, office space and retail.

The company is NSI-approved and a member of NICEIC. n For further information please visit www.act.eu

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AUE Conference

This year’s Association of University Engineers (AUE) Conference is heading to Wales, to be held at the University of South Wales’s scenic Treforest Campus between Wednesday 2nd and Friday 4th September.

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he association promotes and supports Higher Education Estates professional staff within all engineering functions, from design, operation, maintenance and projects, to facilities, energy and sustainability. Originally set up in 1970, by a small group of university engineers, the association was started with the vision of creating a “networked union of like-minded people”.

Primarily to help engineers resolve challenges, to share knowledge between institutions and to promote training and career development among university engineers, the association has held their annual conference every year since the inaugural conference at Salford University in 1971.

Keith Sims, AUE Chair, Conference Host and Maintenance Engineer at Cardiff University Estates Division says: “This is where we really come into our own at our annual conference. Having the opportunity to network with fellow AUE members; to share experiences and solutions; to discuss what worked, what didn’t; to get ideas from suppliers; to take advice from speakers and other specialist topic leaders. It is a massive opportunity for you to help deliver in your role, gain valuable information to take back to your own institutions and therefore create added support and technical expertise for your own institutions.”

The conference provides opportunities to learn from a wide variety of speakers across different topics, from within and outside of the sector. Speakers provide honest accounts of approaches they have tried, including what worked and what

didn’t work, which you can learn from and take back to your institution to help in your day-to-day role. This year’s speakers include representatives from the Higher Education Funding Councils for England and Wales; AECOM; Cardiff University; CCTech; Trident Water Solutions; and an interesting motivational speaker. The conference content also contributes to your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which is a requirement of many respective professional bodies.

There are many networking opportunities available throughout the course of the conference, where attendees will be able to catch up with colleagues from other institutions and meet some new faces too. On Wednesday afternoon, the conference provides delegates with the chance to explore South Wales a little further, with trips organised to the Millennium Centre, Cardiff Castle, a bus tour of Cardiff and an exciting boat ride of the South Wales coastline. Two conference dinners are also arranged to take place, with the Informal Dinner held on-site at the university and the conference’s Gala Dinner taking place at the National Museum, Wales. Often it is the chance meetings and discussions which act as

a catalyst for further engagement after the conference – we find that there is always a huge volume of follow up correspondence and meetings between members.

A 50-stand exhibition will also be taking place, where companies will be promoting current products and services which could further benefit institutions. Feedback from last year’s conference, at the University of Bradford, showed that 100% of attendees thought that the suppliers at the exhibition were of some relevance or very relevant to them. Whilst not every exhibitor may be relevant to all immediate requirements, we are sure there will be someone there who attendees will want to follow up with g post conference.

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We’d like to thank all supporters of this year’s conference, with a special note of thanks for the two main sponsors – Cool-Therm and Thorlux Lighting. Cool-Therm is an awardwinning company specialising in high quality, high efficiency air conditioning, refrigeration and heat pumps (www. cooltherm.co.uk). Thorlux Lighting are designers, manufacturers and suppliers of professional lighting systems (www.thorlux.co.uk). Whilst all exhibition stands have now been allocated, there are a number of sponsorship packages still available.

For further details on potential opportunities, please contact the conference organisers at: aue@assuredevents.com.

The conference is open to university engineers, including AUE members and non-members alike. Full conference packages, which include all plenary sessions, attendance at both conference dinners, lunch and refreshment breaks, and

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accommodation, are available at £365 for members and £385 for non-members. Retired member and partner packages are also available.

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To register, and for more information on the event, visit: www.eventforce. net/aue2015. Please note, the deadline for registering is 18th August.

As well as the main conference, the association has recently introduced subsidised workshops on specifically focused topics. The first of these courses was centred on gas safety and ran across a number of different locations across the country. Feedback from the courses has been extremely positive, and the association are looking to run the next set of workshops in the autumn.

Further details are available at www. eventsforce.net/aueacademy.

Whether you are a returning member or someone new who hasn’t attended the conference before, we looking forward to seeing you in South Wales in September! n For further information visit www. eventsforce.net/aue2015 or contact aue@assuredevents.com

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AUDE

Double Honour Two Universities were recently honoured at the AUDE Awards. The University of Brighton won The AUDE University Impact Initiative of the Year Award whilst Lancaster University Facilities Team won ‘Facilities/ Estates Team of the Year’.

AUDE Awards: A Case Study: Social Informal Learning Spaces (SILS) at University of Brighton, winner of The AUDE University Impact Initiative of the Year Award The Social Informal Learning Spaces (SILS) at University of Brighton have been honoured with The AUDE University Impact Initiative of the Year Award. The SILS project at Brighton University was the stand out initiative that had the most positive impact on its University and students. The

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annual AUDE Awards, held this year at the University of Stirling, aim to highlight and celebrate the exceptional achievements of universities and those who work within them.

The University of Brighton impressed the judges with their innovative SILS project. SILS was primarily developed around research and the realisation that the role of the University is changing and therefore needed to provide a different experience for the student. Brighton responded to this

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brief by designing their social informal and learning spaces to look natural and crop out of nowhere, making students comfortable and at ease with their surroundings.

This award not only recognises the space for which the award was granted but honours the team that developed it. The two graduates appointed to oversee the SILS initiative, Tom Munson and Carly West, were given the freedom and autonomy needed to engage with the student community

effectively. Being recent graduates created an immediate empathy with the student body and built the trust and respect needed to provide the best possible spaces to learn and socialise.

Mike Clark, Director of Estate & Facilities Management at University of Brighton says: “The SILS project has demonstrated that empowering staff at a relatively junior level can bring significant and demonstrable benefits to the University. Tom and Carly were instrumental in the inception, development and implementation of the project and were invited to speak at a major conference on learning environments in 2013. The exceptional performance of the team was also recognised by the University of Brighton.”

SILS at Brighton University have also benefited other University campuses as a shining example of social learning space. Other Universities have heard about the SLIS project through word of mouth, consultants working on other places at the University and through

feedback shared with them. Over 100 industry professionals benefited from a presentation Tom and Carly were invited to give at the Design & Management of Learning Environments conference in June 2013. They both gave an assured assessment of the project.

The University of Brighton is located on three sites within Brighton, two sites in Eastbourne and one site in Hastings.

This geographical spread could be unique for a single University in the UK and presents challenges which one location Universities won’t encounter.

The SILS model works as a mechanism by which the Universities resources can be effectively applied across the various estates to the benefit of all students.

Lancaster University Facilities Win National ‘Team of the Year’ Award The Facilities team at Lancaster University have won the Association of University Directors and Estates (AUDE) ‘Facilities/ Estates Team of the Year’ Award.

The inaugural Higher Education Estates and Facilities Awards highlight

and celebrate the exceptional achievements of universities and those who work in them and make a significant contribution to enhancing excellence, ensuring university estates provide best value to support the institutional mission and promote professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness.

The Facilities team consists of over 600 staff, the majority are from the local area and deliver the following services on campus for the students and the local community; Sports Centre, PreSchool, Lancaster Conferences, guest rooms, bars, cafes and restaurants, Design, Print and Photography, maintenance and infrastructure, cleaning, refurbishments and new building projects, energy and carbon reduction and security.

The entry summarised how the team is striving to meet and exceed expectations by placing people and customer service at the heart of improving performance by being MAD –g Making a Difference.

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The key areas the team have prioritised included: a culture that focuses on values and behaviour, creating an environment that fosters success and pride with the desire to make things happen by team working; getting closer to their “customers”, understanding their priorities and challenges, developing and nurturing relationships for better collaboration and increased satisfaction; improving communications and accessibility, simplifying their systems and processes.

The team also developed an innovative training programme to reach out to staff at all levels, recognising that people have different attitudes and respond in a number of ways.

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developed by BIFM – British Institute of Facilities Management, delivered by Anne Lennox-Martin, an inspirational tutor, was rolled out to all managers, supervisors and customer service champions.

The judges commented that the Lancaster team has “a very comprehensive approach doing lots of things well, a focus on student experience, values and behaviour. The Making a Difference (MAD) scheme is an exemplar that is now being rolled out across Professional Services.”

The award win comes following a string of recent successes for Facilities including the Green Gown Carbon Reduction award for the 2nd year running, the Green Flag award for campus grounds for the 3rd year

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running, Best Halls for the 5th year running and two Gold Food for Life awards.

Mark Swindlehurst, Director of Facilities said: “Winning this award is a fantastic achievement and testimony to the efforts of everyone in the Facilities Team at Lancaster University. We are really proud of our entire team here at Lancaster and delighted that our efforts have been recognised by AUDE at a national level.”

The AUDE Awards are the inaugural Higher Education Estates and Facilities Awards, designed to encourage excellence in the Higher Education estates facilities sector. n For more information, please visit: http://www.aude.ac.uk/home/

pro eLock With up to 32 wireless locks per hub, a range of up to 150 metres and a battery life of up to 3 years, the ACTpro eLock is fast becoming the first choice of campus security managers across Europe.

ACTpro eLock is available in many formats (with or without keys) and conforms to all health and safety specifications.

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When discussing security in the education sector, it is important to realize that requirements vary greatly between different institutions, with the local primary school and the multi-campus university being the extremes

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lso, threats may vary from country to country or even differ between a primary school in a rural area and another one in the center of a major city within the same country. A security concept for an educational facility must therefore always be highly customized and take the specific threats into account. Properly identifying these problems for the specific facility is always the first step. There are a lot of threats that all schools have in common, but not necessarily to the same extent. Next to an incidental fire, the most common problems include: • Rampages • Vandalism • Arson • Mobbing and bullying • Intrusion and theft • Coercion and extortion • Assault and battery • Sexual offense and drug delicts The intensity and frequency of such offenses depends highly on the type of school as well as the geographic and social environments. A primary school in a rural area will be less vulnerable to e.g. drug offenses than a middle school in a major city characterized

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by high unemployment rates. It is therefore important to take a closer look at potential offenders - will they more likely be students, faculty, staff or outsiders? Or maybe former students with detailed knowledge of the facilities? Another important consideration is whether you are dealing with an open campus which is legally accessible 24x7 or with a school that is closed overnight and on weekends, giving potential intruders all

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the time they need to overcome basic security systems.

Like anywhere else, the major goals of a security concept for schools include the safety of people, in this case mainly students and teachers, and the protection of physical assets. However, being safe does not necessarily equal feeling safe, and vice versa, and making people feel safe is another important goal. To reach these goals, a combination of technical and

behavioral measures must be taken.

Apart from the implementation of technical systems, a security concept for schools should include measures to: • raise awareness of teachers and students • educate students • prevent crime through alertness and a general anti-crime policy • enforce the rules of the house It may also be useful to form crisis intervention teams and to name specific teachers that students can report crimes or unusual events to.

From a technical perspective, there are a lot of proven technologies to improve safety and security in schools and universities. Today, most of these technologies, such as fire detection and evacuation systems or video surveillance, can be networked and operated as one integrated system.

Management and operations can be carried out from a local or a remote console. This allows installation of security systems even on sites where no technical experts are employed - an important consideration for smaller schools. In larger environments, this kind of integration leads to dramatically reduced operational expenses.

When every second counts In the event of a fire, time is of the essence. Automatic fire detection should therefore be required for all primary and high schools as well as universities.

You simply cannot rely on the facility manager or a teacher to detect a fire in time, neither during nor after school hours. Modern fire detection systems will not only detect smoke and fire much faster and more reliably, but will also be able to automatically communicate with evacuation systems and send an alarm to the next fire station. In a lot of countries, there is a regulation which usually refers to international, or sometimes national, norms and sets minimum requirements for fire detection and evacuation systems.

In a small primary school it may be

enough to educate teachers how to react to a fire alarm and evacuate the building. There is a limited number of teachers and students, and all of them are familiar with the environment, easing this process. Also, younger children may easily be confused by automated evacuation instructions and be better off relying on their teacher and following her or his instructions.

However, a highly intelligible voice evacuation system is required for larger schools and campuses. Here you have up to thousands of people across a multi-building campus and they are not being as closely supervised as in the primary school. Also, you cannot rely on everybody being familiar with the premises and the escape routes. A voice evacuation system supporting multiple zones such as Bosch’s fully digital Praesideo will allow the distribution of targeted evacuation instructions to affected parts of the campus only, guaranteeing fast evacuation without interfering with operations in other unaffected parts of the campus.

The number one priority in PA (Public Address) is of course speech intelligibility, as messages have to be clearly understood by everybody anywhere on the premises. But still today, a lot of the older schools operate with very scratchy announcements that are mostly incomprehensible and can turn out to be deadly in the worst

case. Here a lot of backlog has to be worked off. The good news is that a modern voice evacuation system can also double as a PA system for general announcements.

In larger environments it is also necessary to use addressable fire detectors to automatically locate the alarm without taking up valuable time.

The information that a smoldering fire has been detected somewhere is not of much use to the fire department.

Modern alarm panels with intelligent bus systems therefore provide a way to uniquely identify and also localize each individual alarm. To accomplish this, optical, thermal and chemical sensors with different levels of sensitivity can be used to adapt to the varying requirements of individual sections of the buildings. On large university campuses with their great variety of buildings, a network of multiple fire panels covering individual structures may be necessary. In this case, modular systems like Bosch’s Modular Fire Panel 5000 Series enable the operator to tailor fire protection solutions to the very specific requirements of individual buildings, while still operating the entire solution as an integrated system. With such architecture it is possible to keep the cable paths from the control center to peripheral elements short, or to logically separate individual areas of a g campus.

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Another issue which may come up, primarily in universities, is securing specific infrastructures such as data centers, laboratories or even an inhouse power plant. Some of these infrastructures require specific fire detectors or additional measures like reducing the air’s oxygen content in data centers. In such cases it is extremely important to select an installer with this specific expertise.

See what is going on In order to prevent crimes and offenses, video surveillance enjoys ever increasing acceptance. However, when considering video surveillance in schools it is always challenging to balance the protection of students with possible privacy concerns. There is also a broad spectrum of threats that video surveillance is designed to deal with; some of these are much more relevant to some school types than to others. Video surveillance can be used for various purposes, for example the monitoring of entrances and exits, identification of people or collection of behavioral data.

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will usually be used to monitor entrances, exits and for perimeter protection to signalize unauthorized access or help to collect evidence in cases of vandalism. Mid-sized schools with teenage students may also see a need to monitor some indoor areas to help reduce bullying, sexual offenses or other forms of violence between students. Here, video surveillance may also be used to protect the school against theft of valuable resources such as computers. Large high schools and universities have pretty much the same requirements, but on a much larger scale. As they operate sensitive environments, such as biological and chemical laboratories or data centers, they often see the need to also use video surveillance to verify alarms triggered by an intrusion detection system or to double check access requests managed by the access control system. It may also be important to secure outdoor areas around the clock, which requires very light sensitive cameras with or without integrated infrared lighting that are weather and vandalism resistant. With its starlight technology, Bosch has developed

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a solution for extreme low-light environments, delivering high quality color images where other cameras offer black and white only, while enabling detailed black and white images where others produce no picture at all.

How do you balance students’ safety with their privacy? Video surveillance and management solutions from Bosch facilitate multiple possibilities to securely manage user access rights. Another possibility is applying a four-eye principle. Recorded video may only be played back when two authorized persons enter their respective passwords. In this way it can be safeguarded that only authorized people have access to video material when needed.

Another challenge is the fact that there are limited human resources to operate a surveillance system. This is where Intelligent Video Analysis (IVA) from Bosch comes in. Cameras with built-in IVA enable, for example, the automatic triggering of alarms and detection of objects if interest without the need for security personnel to watch surveillance monitors around the clock.

It allows the cameras to only stream

video to the control room when predefined alarm rules are met. This frees up personnel capacity since IVA helps to focus attention. It also improves the quality of video surveillance solutions substantially, since research shows that even a well trained security guard can miss 90 percent of scene activity when watching multiple monitors for 20 minutes. IVA is never asleep nor tired and alerts security guards when needed.

IVA can also help to save money by only streaming relevant information, reducing storage and network requirements substantially.

Look who’s walking In most schools, the facility manager has an arduous task. Carrying a thick bunch of keys, one of his main responsibilities is to open and lock doors as needed. This may sound easy in an elementary school where you usually open the main door in the morning and lock it again after school hours, while many internal doors have no lock. Unauthorized access to restricted areas is not really an issue here. The same is true for intrusion.

There are not a lot of assets in an elementary school that might attract intruders at night. Standard precautions like secure doors and windows may therefore be sufficient to protect the school against an opportunistic vandal, unless it is located in a critical environment.

Not so with other types of schools.

A lot of them have valuable assets to protect, like computers, other technical equipment or books in the library, and all are prone to both theft and vandalism. Also, older students may be much more inclined to access teacher-only rooms than first graders. In addition, school facilities are sometimes also used for public events, like a sports event, a local theatre group or an open council. Visitors to such events are not usually allowed access to other rooms and facilities within the school. In such

a situation, a facility manager with his large key ring is no longer the solution; this is even more true on a university campus.

An automated access control system with key cards can efficiently grant or deny access to individual rooms based on personal access rights. This way, you can effectively secure special rooms like offices, computer rooms, laboratories or any other critical environments against unauthorized access. Such a system can also track access attempts and alert security personnel if needed.

Another benefit is that lost keys are no longer a problem as the system allows you to simply disable a lost card and issue a new one to the owner.

Using sophisticated access control systems with modular controllers and local memory, it is also possible to design access control solutions which remain fully operational even when the underlying network goes down for any reason.

While access control systems are well suited to limit access via the front door, not everybody is willing to enter that way. This is why valuable assets or critical infrastructures at high schools and universities will also have to be secured by an intrusion detection system. In connected environments, both intrusion detection and access control systems can be tightly integrated with an existing video surveillance solution, allowing the school to verify alarms and alerts through live images which are automatically transmitted to a control room.

alarms and other information from the individual subsystems. If required, targeted measures can be taken very quickly when responding to dangerous situations or incidents in any educational facility. Additionally, central management is primarily responsible for ensuring that complex installations, such as those in larger campuses, can be operated efficiently and economically. Some of these management systems, such as the Building Integration System (BIS) from Bosch, even go beyond just controlling security technologies, and can also integrate other building automation systems that use network connections. This allows, for example, to integrate security technology with HVAC systems (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) and to efficiently use real time data collected by the security systems to monitor and control the HVAC environment, resulting in savings on energy.

Integration increases security while reducing cost If you want to design and implement an integrated safety and security infrastructure for a larger school or university, one critical component will be the central management system which is used to control and operate all the individual subsystems such as fire, intrusion or video. It makes it possible to automatically correlate

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Ferno, based in West Yorkshire, HID Global is the leader in providing exports to more than 150 access and ID management solutions countries worldwide and is for the delivery of secure identity. HID recognised as a global leader in Global is focused on creating customer the manufacture and distribution valueofworldwide with technology-based patient-handling equipment. access solutions, issuance solutions Our range of emergency rescue and logistics technology solutions. HID equipment and evacuation is selected more anyfor other products arethan made all brand in theeventualities, convergencedesigned, of physical and logical access control. developed and builtIntoaddition, tackle the the company develops, of manufactures most demanding jobs. and markets ID components, products www.ferno.co.uk and services deployed with national ID and e-passport programmes www.hidglobal.com

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The challenges of an ever increasing urbanized world need answers Cycle-Works a specialist cycle The Club Carare product portfolio parking company who have installed includes commercial utility their products at many universities vehicles, multi-passenger shuttle and colleges in the UK for over 17 vehicles, and rough-terrain and offyears. Products range from simple, road utility vehicles.

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Thorlux Lighting The Thorlux range of luminaires is designed, manufactured and distributed by Thorlux Lighting, a division of the F.W. Thorpe plc Group. The company now operates from the group’s modern 14,410 sq m self-contained factory in Redditch, Worcestershire, central England.

Thorlux is well known throughout the world and provides a comprehensive range of professional lighting and control systems for architectural, commercial, floodlighting, industrial, hazardous area and tunnel applications. www.thorlux.com

Samsung Techwin manufactures a wide range of professional Visualisers which collectively offer a solution for virtually any application including schools and other education establishments, tele-conferences, seminars, medical environments, boardrooms and courtrooms. The company promotes its products throughout Europe via an extensive network of professional AV distributors. www.samsungpresenter.com

TimeKeeping Systems, which was founded in 1986, is a leading manufacturer of data collection products. Guard1 Plus and The Pipe have been accepted as the preferred and recommended guard tour products of many large companies. As a result, we have had the opportunity to work with many of the largest companies in the security industry. Our customers set a high standard and much of our success has come from working to meet their expectations. www.guard1.com

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Weatherite Building Services UNITE Modular Solutions Limited originally formed in 1972, designs, manufactures and has over 40 years experience in the constructs fully fitted volumetric design, project and modular units tomanagement form permanent, installation of all aspects of building multi-storey buildings for student services, including commercial accommodation, hotels, residential, kitchen ventilation systems, air social and affordable housing conditioning installations, cooling and military accommodation. for Data Centres & Comms Modern of construction Rooms, methods heating systems, chiller (MMC) deliverprogrammes commercial and andall replacement environmental ts to our aspects of M &benefi E works. clients and society at large and are www.weatherite-building-services. key comto our business philosophy. www.unite-modularsolutions.co.uk

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Walker Modular With over 35 years of expertise in designing, manufacturing and servicing modular and traditional build projects, Walker Modular is at the forefront of this rapidly expanding sector. Walker Modular is the largest pod manufacturer in the UK for student accommodation projects.

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