PROJECT OVERVIEW

This project involved the design of a new 27-storey student accommodation tower providing 538 student beds with associated amenity and a roof garden.

The Hannan residential team provided Building Services Engineering consultancy and BREEAM Assessment services up to stage 4, targeting BREEAM ‘Very Good’.

Planning for the scheme has been granted.

The scheme is located close to Salford university and Salford Crescent train station, at the site of the former McDonalds regional headquarters.

We worked alongside Broadway Malyan, Quantem, Davies Maguire & Layer Studio on Q Developments’ project design team.

Energy Reduction Design Features

To help minimise energy usage, our design included vertical Waste Water Heat Recovery systems, which takes waste water from students’ showers, recovers waste heat and pre heats incoming cold water supply feeding the showers.

The scheme design utilised low GWP refrigerant modular air to water heat pumps to provide hot water between 60°C and 90°C which is then distributed throughout the building to outlets.

In order to minimise excessive pressures within the system and to reduce energy consumption associated with pumping water to the upper floors, the dedicated cold water and sprinkler booster distribution systems were divided into two domestic cold water booster systems, upper and lower floor zones, to include Variable Speed High-efficiency pump sets.

Similarly, the design of soil and waste drainage systems needed careful consideration due to the overall height of the building to avoid excess pressures building up within stacks. This is done through the use of secondary ventilation pipework and AAAVs.