Daphne Steele Building

The Human and Health Sciences building is the first completed building on the University of Huddersfield’s National Health Innovation Campus (NHIC) masterplan. The Daphne Steel building achieved WELL Platinum certified status, supporting NHIC ambition to achieve WELL and Scale status.

Offering state of the art equipment and facilities, the building includes a mock up residential home and sport specialist teaching areas as well as gait labs, high/low fidelity skill labs and orthotics labs.

Cundall provided multi-disciplinary engineering services with sustainable design solutions. The team designed a highly efficient air source heat pump system that provides comfort heating and cooling along with hot water generation. Efficient LED lighting and ventilation systems and smartly controlled allowing full control and reducing energy consumption.

Paul Kenyon, Partner said “Health and wellbeing is at the core of this project and the client’s requirements. Our team is using its expertise as WELL leaders to assist the university on its WELL accreditation pathway, through design solutions that include biophilia and day lighting”

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Cloud based BIM modelling

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External terraces that promote health and wellbeing

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Building services structurally integrated to reduce building height and therefore cost

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Paul Kenyon

Partner, Building Services

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We are worked closely with the client and the whole project team to design a building that will bring the university and public together through high end teaching facilities that will benefit the community.