ModCell launches

Renewable School of the Future

 

ModCell® and PassivSystems are to work together on the creation of the ModCell® Renewable Schools™ across the UK, targeting the Government’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.

 

 The schools will be built using ModCell® renewable, carbon capturing materials that lower heating costs by up to 85 per cent, whilst any energy used on lighting, computers and other technology will be reduced even further using the PassivEnergy™ energy management system. The first school is scheduled for completion in September 2010 and will be an exemplar of how Zero Carbon Schools will be delivered.

The BSF programme is the biggest-ever school buildings investment programme, with the aim being to rebuild or renew every school in the UK.
“BSF provides an enormous market opportunity for ModCell® and PassivSystems™ and the recent £600m Somerset County Council selection of its preferred bidder for its schools shows just how big,” explained Craig White, of ModCell®. “The combination of our two companies’ technologies makes for an extremely compelling proposition, enabling schools to reduce their carbon emissions drastically.”

 

Once the schools are constructed, PassivSystems™ will supply its energy management system, PassivEnergy into every classroom, the first time occupancy management has been used in schools.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PassivEnergy works using sensors and actuators that connect to a building’s heating, hot water and electrical appliances and manages them via an online account.
PassivEnergy also has an innovative ‘Adaptive Occupancy Control’ function to further optimise energy use, which will learn about a school’s working day and automatically adjust and control energy consumption accordingly.
“Adding PassivEnergy to the ModCell® Renewable Schools’ super efficient building system will make these first schools a blueprint for any further schools intent on lowering carbon emissions,” said Colin Calder, CEO of PassivSystems. “A school’s energy needs will vary on an hourly basis and from classroom to classroom and PassivEnergy will learn and manage those requirements to significantly reduce energy use.”