Queen Mary is embedding good environmental practices into the materials and processes associated with construction, new build and refurbishment projects can positively contribute to the delivery of good environmental outcomes.
Building construction and refurbishments are including sustainable updates across all campuses. See some recent examples of these changes:
John Vane Science Centre:
Green Energy Hub:
Lynton House, People’s Palace, Canal Study Space, and Engineering 6G Lab:
Informatics Teaching Laboratory:
Queens’ Building refurbishments:
Library extension:
We aim to achieve ‘Excellent’ and ‘Very Good’ ratings from the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) for all our major new builds and refurbishment projects respectively. BREEAM is the world's leading sustainability assessment method for masterplanning projects, infrastructure and buildings. It assesses a project's environmental, social and economic sustainability performance in order to recognise high performing projects across the built environment lifecycles, from new construction to in-use and refurbishment.
We will monitor the contribution of all prospective refurbishment projects towards our target of achieving 30% carbon reduction over six years.
We will improve the DEC scores of our existing buildings during refurbishment.
We aim to integrate innovative building energy efficiency technologies into all our new builds and refurbishment projects in the long term.