A brand new school on the outskirts of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk was built to accommodate 1,600 students. The project was designed and managed by Concertus Design & Property Consultants on behalf of Suffolk County Council, who wanted the school to act as a benchmark for sustainability with the building’s roofs playing an integral part in achieving this through the inclusion of solar panels.
Working closely with the architect and the client, Bauder developed a bespoke specification package that was designed to maximise the solar output from the available roof space and satisfy all relevant local planning conditions. Four buildings on the school’s campus were waterproofed with over 5,000m2 of Bauder’s reinforced bitumen system, Bauderflex, by approved installer GRM Roofing, before having 313 PV modules fitted by Chelsfield Solar; enabling the client to generate at least 74.32 Megawatt Hours of solar power each year.