Progress Update: Thistle Primary School

We are proud to be Net Zero Champion for Renfrewshire Council’s Thistle Primary School, a new-build learning environment currently under construction in Dargavel.

Our Director David MacConnell was out on site last week for a progress meeting and was impressed with what he saw. He commented:

“Progress has been remarkable – structure is complete and the building is close to wind and watertight. I wasn’t expecting services to be in yet, so it was a nice surprise to find pipework runs and the Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery (MVHR) units already mounted to the classroom soffits. This technology is the reason an energy efficient classroom can stay well ventilated, without throwing the heat straight back out. Seeing them in place is the point where the outputs of Carbon Futures’ modelling starts turning into a real building.”

So what does the Net Zero Champion Role Involve?

“In practice that means we’re checking what gets built and installed will deliver on what was predicated at the design stage, and the targets set out within the Net Zero Public Sector Building Standard (NZPSBS) I am happy to report that the project is on track. Most of the risk on a project sits in the gap between what a building is designed to do and what it actually does once it’s occupied. It is great to be working with a team that treats performance as something to be proven, not assumed.”

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