Construction and refurbishment

Objective

• Reduce consumption of new materials and increase the reuse and recycling of materials.
• Incorporate environmental criteria into material and contract specifications to reduce whole life cycle environmental impacts.
• Create built environments that meet the highest environmental standards.

Initiatives

• The Centre Buildings Redevelopment currently underway is the largest construction project in LSE's history.  This brings significant opportunities for environmental progress, and the new building has stringent sustainability targets for energy, water, waste and resource consumption.  It also aims to be BREEAM Outstanding and achieve an 'A' rated Display Energy Certificate.

• The Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, which opened its doors in 2014, was designed to the highest environmental standards and achieved BREEAM 'Outstanding' status and an 'A' rated Energy Performance Certificate.  View this summary fact sheet to find out more about the building's features.

• Over £100,000 has been saved in recent years as a result of refurbishing and  salvaging and recycling materials during construction and refurbishment works.

• Routine maintenance works across campus continually improve energy efficiency, e.g. by rolling out LED lighting and improving building controls.

• See the LSE Capital Development website for more details on our other construction projects. 

        

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