Woodmill and St Columba’s RC High School have relocated to Dunfermline Learning Campus, the largest Passivhaus-certified building in the UK
Woodmill and St Columba’s RC High School is now officially relocated to Dunfermline Learning Campus, and is open to students.
The school is the largest Passivhaus building in the UK.
The Dunfermline Learning Campus is the largest Passivhaus building in the UK
Woodmill High School and St Columba’s RC High School share a campus location, meaning they can share learner resources and provide a more enriching experience for students.
Dunfermline Learning Campus is also designed in such a way that both high schools can retain their own identities, and be operationally independent.
The campus also features a new facility for Fife College, bringing the size of the campus to 26,666 sq m, and able to accomodate 246 staff and 2,700 students.
The Passivhaus qualification means the campus building maximises natural light, and implements ventilation and air-tight features to maximise air quality.
The school promotes community as well as learning
Some of the facilities Dunfermline learning campus has, such as the sports facilities, will also be open to the wider public as well as students, parents, and teachers. The facilities are capable of supporting larger groups as well as individuals.
Other facilities that will benefit the community include a community kitchen, learning lab, performance space, recording studio, IT hub, and multiuse media lab.
The campus is also surrounded by several green spaces for the environment and to benefit mental health.
The campus building is among the first to use the Scottish government’s and Scottish Futures Trust’s Net Zero Public Sector Buildings Standard, it is set to achieve the Passivhaus Classic certification later in the year.
Jamie Gregory, the project architect and Passivhaus designer at AHR, said: “Although Passivhaus is a fundamental and an integral part of the design approach to the new school, design quality was always at the forefront of any decisions made. In order to the achieve Passivhaus standard on a building this scale, it was essential that we were guided by Passivhaus principles from the outset.”
