Aedas

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Located within the Waverley Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham, a 90 acre manufacturing technology park, the BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rated building provides approximately 1440 sq.m. of flexible office accommodation and 600 sq. m. of flexible workshop space for use of SME’s in the field of low carbon and fuel cell energy industries. The building creates as a primary hub for the UK’s advanced metals and engineering cluster.

The appointment followed the completion of the masterplan for the entire regeneration site in 2002 and the design of the Innovation Technology Centre, which opened in 2006, also secured an ‘Excellent’ BREEAM score.

A key element of the new low carbon sustainable centre is an iconic renewable energy mini-grid which supplies electricity and heat to tenants and provides a working ‘R&D’ demonstration space to test new technologies. A wind turbine powered hydrogen cell system will enable the building to be self-sufficient in electricity, having energy supplied through hydrogen generation and hydrogen storage.

The building is naturally ventilated with high and low level opening windows to provide single-sided and cross-flow ventilation. All floor slabs feature exposed concrete soffits with embedded pipe work fed from ground water boreholes which allows the thermal mass to work in association with night-time cooling. This process offsets the fabric and infiltration heat losses during winter and the internal heat gains in the summer

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