TORQUAY ACADEMY, DEVON

A brand new replacement school with state of the art facilities and Thermowall panels to form the external façade designed to be thermally efficient and to take advantage of the benefits of the inherent thermal mass of concrete.

The panels manufactured with CCP’s ‘ecocrete’ concrete achieved a ‘U’ value of 0.14 W/m2K with virtually zero cold bridging through 160mm of PE-PIR insulation and an excellent level of air tightness.

The outer skin is supported from the structural inner skin by conventional Thermomass connectors as well as Thermomass ‘C’ connectors which stiffen the connection between the two skins of concrete.

This project was designed, manufactured and installed by CCP. Manufacture took place in CCP’s state of the art carousel plant. Utilising the flat precision engineered pallets, the robotic plotter for the setting out of the CAD drawings, magnetic backed shutters for speed, simplicity and reducing expensive and wasteful falsework, the pouring and vibration stations as well as the tilting station.

CCP Thermowall panels were chosen for this project because of their effect on programme times and certainty, their thermal mass coupled with exceptionally low ‘U’ values as well as their aesthetic flexibility.

The overall effect is quite stunning and delivers the building of a school for the future in terms of programme, cost certainty, thermal performance, BREEAM rating and of course, aesthetics.