Ardrossan Community Campus
North Ayrshire
______ Ardrossan Community Campus is a new 16,350m2 educational facility which will incorporate both Winton Primary and Ardrossan Academy. The new facility will include state-of-the-art educational and sporting facilities, a community library, and a swimming pool.
___________Introduction
Ardrossan Community Campus is a new 16,350m2 educational facility which will incorporate both Winton Primary and Ardrossan Academy. The new facility will include state-of-the-art educational and sporting facilities, a community library, and a swimming pool.
Partially funded by the Scottish Government through the Scottish Futures Trust, the project will create a new community and educational campus on a former brownfield site within the town’s North Shore and Harbour area and will target in-use energy consumption of 67/kW/m²/annum.
Designed by JM Architects for North Ayrshire Council, the new education and community campus is part of £150million plan for the site which also include sports pitches, housing, commercial uses, roads, a new coastal path, and facilities associated with an extended marina.
Constrution began on the school in July 2025 and it is expected to be complete by Autumn 2027.
___________Introduction
Ardrossan Community Campus is a new 16,350m2 educational facility which will incorporate both Winton Primary and Ardrossan Academy. The new facility will include state-of-the-art educational and sporting facilities, a community library, and a swimming pool.
Partially funded by the Scottish Government through the Scottish Futures Trust, the project will create a new community and educational campus on a former brownfield site within the town’s North Shore and Harbour area and will target in-use energy consumption of 67/kW/m²/annum.
Designed by JM Architects for North Ayrshire Council, the new education and community campus is part of £150million plan for the site which also include sports pitches, housing, commercial uses, roads, a new coastal path, and facilities associated with an extended marina.
Constrution began on the school in July 2025 and it is expected to be complete by Autumn 2027.
___________Sustainability
The Ardrossan Community Campus building has been designed to Passivhaus Standards but will not be seeking certification.
As such the building has applied a fabric first approach by optimising the building envelope, thermal and airtightness lines.
The building includes Air Source Heat Pumps that deliver the heating and hot water, Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery and PV arrays on the roof.
Carbon Futures undertook energy, IEQ and carbon modelling from RIBA Stage 2 and throughout the design programme to test options, optimise and ultimately inform the design development process in order for the building to ensure it was going to meet the targets within the project brief.
___________Our Scope
Carbon Futures has been appointed to work on the project design team as the independent Energy and Sustainability Consultant, responsible for developing the energy, carbon and environmental strategies for construction of the building and aligning the building to industry Net Zero standards.
Strategy development has been undertaken using detailed dynamic simulation modelling to accurately account for building performance, via digital twin software.
The modelling and analysis during the design phase has allowed the design team to understand the performance implications of numerous improvement options and allowed the team to then make informed design decisions based on this science based data.
