University Marine Building, Plymouth

Having experienced rapid growth in student numbers, the university wanted to extend its teaching facilities and create a new campus gateway building. Not only did the client want a visually impressive building, but also a building with exceptional sustainability credentials for an ‘excellent’ BREEM accreditation.

The development was designed to house a dedicated space for the marine sciences faculty and included many high-tech features, including laboratory spaces, simulators, and a state-of-the-art coastal simulation pool.

The university building was ideal for rainwater harvesting with a large roof area totalling 1,281m2 and a high daily water use from WCs. Stormsaver was able to provide the best rainwater harvesting system for the site requirements which enabled the site to eliminate unnecessary use of high-quality mains water supplies for 24 WCs. We worked with a leading team of consulting engineers to specify our popular non-pressurised rainwater harvesting system which was ideal for providing a sufficient flow rate for the building. Stormsaver was also able to supply a 21,000-litre below-ground storage tank to capture and store rainwater until a demand within the building is detected.