The Ysgol Cae Top school project has just been awarded 'Best Educational Building' in the 2010 North Wales LABC Building Excellence Awards.
Ysgol Cae Top is a bilingual, multi cultural primary school in Upper Bangor, Gywnedd with over 20 languages spoken by its pupils.
The school was originally established in 1871, and has undergone a recent transformation with the devlopment of a new £4m school building funded by a WAG School Building Improvement Grant (SBIG).
The school uses several renewable and sustainable features and was designed to be sympathetic to it's environment:
- The orientation of the floor plan makes full use of the natural resources, particulary in its ‘L’ shape form.
- Ground source heat pumps to heat the under floor heating
- Photovoltaic panels and Wind Turbine to supplement the electrical consumption
- Recycled rainwater from the roof to flush the toilets
- Natural daylight and ventilation through large windows
- Wind catchers and Sun pipes to provide natural daylight and ventilation
- Solar panels to supplement the hot water heating
Contractors: Carillion Building