BCM - latest Successes in Health and Education

BCM are continuing to develop and we have detailed some of our major successes in the last few months in the Health and Education sectors.

At the next update we will release more details about two other exciting projects currently in hand (a VIP airport / hangar facility and a major City Centre office development).

Health Projects

Financial Close has been achieved on the next phase of the Doncaster LIFT projects which we are undertaking with Morgan Ashurst. Projects are now on site at:-

• Edlington
• Askern
• Hatfield
• Moorends

The 8500m2 PFI scheme at Whitegates Drive in Blackpool with Eric Wright Construction is now under way. This project has been designed by BCM to achieve high energy efficiency ratings and low carbon emissions. The design has been fundamentally influenced by BCM undertaking Dynamic Thermal Models at the outset of the design.

The scheme will benefit from a CHP plant and absorption chiller.

Education Projects

Further schemes with our Manchester City Council Framework team members (Ellis Williams Architects, Wright Mottershaw and Bramall Construction Ltd) continue. The latest scheme, for Brookburn Primary School, is due to start on site around Easter 2008. This scheme has been designed to meet Manchester City Council's Planning Requirement (Guide to Development 2 - G2D2) which requires the design to have carbon emissions 20% better than Part L and 25% on site renewable energy. For this scheme, solar thermal has been selected as the most appropriate solution.

As a direct result of the carbon analyses undertaken on Brookburn, Manchester City Council have appointed BCM directly to undertake dynamic thermal modelling to provide objective data to influence the Framework 2 BSF academies. This will assist in developing the fabric and sustainable servicing solutions for the high value projects.

BCM have been appointed to take over the responsibility for the services on both Phase A and Phase B of the redevelopment of Wyke 6th Form College. BCM have taken over from a major national consultancy as a direct result of our capability and expertise with Dynamic Thermal Modelling techniques. As a result we have been able to recommend improvements to the scheme which have resulted in lowering the CO2 emissions and giving greater confidence in the temperatures which are likely to be encountered in the new buildings. This improved energy efficiency has a direct effect on the capital cost of the project by reducing the number of bore holes required by the ground source heat pump installation.