Infrastructure Project
Since October 2018, the Estates Department have been working with contractors to upgrade the infrastructure at King’s Buildings.
This investment will greatly improve the resilience of the campus. It replaces ageing systems, some of which have been in place for 50 years. The newly installed infrastructure will support the campus for the next 50 years and has been designed with sustainability in mind, improving the energy efficiency of the campus as a whole.
Completed infrastructure work
- 30 buildings now have a new low voltage infrastructure
- Four high voltage substations have been upgraded
- 13 new electrical transformers have been installed in campus substations and will reduce electrical load losses by around 60%
- The old transformers will be refurbished for re-use
- Around 60 new electrical metering points have been installed. These will help to inform consumption and future energy initiatives.
- A new heating network has been installed around the Kenneth and Noreen Murray Library and along the Thomas Bayes and Marion Ross Roads – forming 50% of the campus heating ring
- The new heating ring has improved insulation to reduce heat loss and has been designed to allow for future input from renewable heat sources.
- The KB Energy Centre has been upgraded and extended to accommodate new gas boilers
- The new gas boilers are approximately 10% more efficient and will help reduce the carbon factor for the campus district heating.
- New foul and surface water sewers have been installed.
- Demolition of the Anne Walker Building, Weir Building and KB Centre
- Waste from demolished buildings is being recycled to reduce what is sent to landfill.
- Re-alignment of Max Born Crescent and adjacent car park improvements.
Ongoing infrastructure works
- Local enabling works continuing around the Energy Centre to the rear of the Kenneth and Noreen Murray Library and around the Engineering site in 2020.