SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION CENTRE FOR RURAL UNIVERSITY

An ambitious low carbon project to provide new laboratory and office facilities for a rural university in Dumfries & Galloway, the project is to be funded by the Borderlands Growth Deal and was conceived as being rooted within and strongly connected to the working farm steading. All aspects of the building envelope, structure, interior, landscape and mechanical & electric servicing were carefully refined to minimise the operational and embodied carbon of the project, which was proposed to serve as a hub for scientific innovation for the dairy industry. The project followed RIBA Sustainable Outcomes principles and was designed to be the first building of its kind in Scotland to powered and heated without fossil fuels. Range Studio shared design responsibilities on the project with Jestico + Whiles and collaborated with a wider award winning design team including Price & Myers engineers, Skelly & Couch environmental and mechanical engineers, Raeburn Farquhar Bowen landscape architects, Buro Happold fire and transport consultants and Sound Matters acoustic consultants. The project was also overseen by Edinburgh based Currie & Brown project managers and Thomas & Adamson cost consultants. Follow this link for another example of a sustainability led solar shading and collecting veranda project that we are currently working on. To understand more about how we evolve a sustainable brief and sustainability targets for your projects, follow this link to our design services and process page.