ElizabethFryBuilding-UniversityofEastAnglia.docVIP

ELIZABETH FRY BUILDING PROBE 14: Elizabeth Fry Building The Elizabeth Fry (EFry) Building, occupied in January 1995, is the most recent low energy building commissioned by the University of East Anglia (UEA). It is the last of a group of new buildings on the western edge of the Norwich campus, which started in the 1980s and includes the Constable Terrace student residences and the Queens Building. For an in depth details of the building’s construction, readers should look at the original building analysis Teaching low energy’ (Building Services Journal , April 1995)1. Basically, the building has a gross floor area of some 3250 m2 (3130 m2 treated floor area) over four storeys. Its north facade is on the site perimeter road, while the south side faces Constable Terrace across a courtyard! car park. The top two floors contain 50 cellular offices for about 70 staff. The School of Social Work is mainly on the first floor, with the School of Health Policy and Practice on the second floor. The lower ground and ground floors contain lecture and seminar rooms, bookable by the whole university. For the conference trade, there are also two dining rooms and a small catering kitchen on the second floor. The position, height and external style of EFry, including its rendered and concrete block external finishes, was very much dictated by earlier buildings on the site. Finishes are of a high quality and more reminiscent of stylish business premises than most academic establishments, even though cost levels were normal at ~820!m2. On the north side a curved projection identifies the main entrance, which leads to a pleasant narrow atrium reaching up to roof level. Lecture theatres on the lower ground floor have their own separate entrances on the south side. Construction details The design team has produced a well insulated, tightly sealed and triple-glazed building envelope to meet the client’s low energy criteria1. This included double-skin blockwork walls with 200mm insula