In the field of veterinary science there are few
institutions with the reputation and heritage to match the Royal Veterinary
College (RVC) and the College’s Hertfordshire Campus has now been further
enhanced with the construction of a RIBA Award winning Student Village
featuring over 6500 m2 of Kingspan Insulation Kooltherm
K15 Rainscreen Board.
The RVC Student Village provides 191 en-suite bedrooms
separated across five separate blocks along with a restaurant and meeting
rooms. Hawkins\Brown designed the student accommodation to seamlessly blend
with its greenbelt surroundings, using locally sourced red cedar and Bronsgroen
bricks. The buildings also provide a high level of energy efficiency and were
certified on completion to BREEAM ‘Very Good’.
To help minimise heatloss Kingspan Insulation’s premium
performance Kooltherm K15 Rainscreen Board was installed as part of the
external wall build-up. The product holds LABC System Approval for use in
rainscreen applications, helping to streamline the Building Control checking
and approval process and features a highly insulated core delivering thermal conductivities
as low as 0.020 W/m.K.
In addition to this outstanding thermal performance,
Kooltherm K15 Rainscreen Board can also contribute towards a number of other
BREEAM credits including Responsible Sourcing and Embodied Impact. The product
has been assigned the highest possible Green Guide Summary Rating of A+ and is
certified ‘Very Good’ under the demanding BES 6001: Responsible Sourcing of
Construction Products standard.
Kooltherm K15 Rainscreen Board is supported by Kingspan
Insulation’s Technical Service Department which can provide specific U-value
calculations for the product’s use with a wide range of rainscreen systems.
The RVC Student Village won a RIBA Award and a RIBA East
Education Award in 2012 and features several other energy saving measures
including grey water recycling and solar water heating. A state of the art
Teaching and Research Centre has also been constructed at the Hertfordshire
Campus, helping to maintain the RVC’s place as a world leader for veterinary
training and research.
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