Max Fordham ABOUT MF: NET ZERO PROJECTS SERVICES PEOPLE NEWS MAX:R+I CONTACT PROJECTS ORIAM ORIAM SPORTS PERFORMANCE CENTRE ORIAM Oriam Sports Performance Centre is Scotland’s national home for football, also serving the national rugby team, and the national home for the governing bodies of basketball, handball, squash, raquetball and volleyball. Our work included M&E and acoustic design, along with Soft Landings consultancy. The vision for the environmental design was to create an inspirational national facility for athletes, coaches and support staff, while minimising environmental impact, and operational and energy cost. The building form and materials were developed to provide extensive natural ventilation and daylighting to reduce the need for mechanical cooling, fan energy and artificial lighting. The internal environments have been designed and tested to ensure acoustic comfort and speech intelligibility throughout the building. Max Fordham’s Soft Landings process was applied to all stages of the project, from the early briefing through to the commissioning, completion, handover and aftercare. The result is an exemplar of sustainable design, construction and operation. Oriam won the award for Project of the Year (Leisure) at the 2018 CIBSE Building Performance Awards. Info The sports hall's arched shape (right) represents a very compact building form, reducing the surface area and heat loss. Info The artificial lighting in the sports hall is controlled to suit the level of sporting activity and to separately illuminate each of the three separate occupied zones when dividing nets are deployed. A combination of acoustically absorptive surfaces and the angled walls reduce the reverberation and improve acoustic comfort for the occupants. Info Building form and materials have been developed to provide natural ventilation and daylighting, reducing the need for mechanical cooling, fan energy and artificial lighting Info Part of the building is constructed in an historic walled garden. The listed garden wall runs through the main access of the building. Info The large indoor football hall incorporates a translucent roof membrane with a transparency which has been tuned to control solar gain while delivering a daylight factor of 6% Info The fitness suite experiences very high occupancies, requiring high ventilation rates and cooling loads. To reduce energy consumption the ventilation is controlled on CO2 to match the variable occupancy and air conditioning has been designed to transfer the waste heat from the fitness suite to the café above. A natural ventilation strategy creates comfortable spaces to train when weather prevents outdoor play Image: Ioana Marinescu ARCHITECT REIACH AND HALL ARCHITECTS VALUE £30M COMPLETION 2016 CLIENT HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY ENGINEERS Mark Palmer BSc Senior Partner and Sports Leader Brian Moore MEng MIET Principal Engineer, Partner Steve Kenicer BSc AMlnstP Principal Engineer, Partner SHOW MORE PEOPLE RELATED SERVICES M&E ENGINEERING RENEWABLE ENERGY BREEAM AND LEED ASSESSMENTS SOFT LANDINGS ACOUSTICS SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANCY 2018 CIBSE Building Performance Award, Project of the Year (Leisure) SEE ALL AWARDS POST@MAXFORDHAM.COM +44 (0)20 7267 5161 TWITTER INSTAGRAM LINKEDIN PRIVACY NOTICE LEGAL © MAX FORDHAM 2021