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11/12 Riverside Studios
Amethyst Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne & Wear, NE4 7YL
+44 (0) 191 265 7080
11/12 Riverside Studios
Amethyst Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne & Wear, NE4 7YL
+44 (0) 191 265 7080
9 Java Wharf,
Shad Thames,
London,
SE1 2YH
+44 (0) 203 637 4180
Chapel House,
City Road,
Chester,
CH1 3AE
+44 (0) 1244 310 388
enquiries@tnw-architecture.co.uk
The White House,
Craven Lodge,
37 Victoria Avenue,
Harrogate, HG1 5PX
+44 (0) 1423 206980
36 St Marys Street,
Edinburgh
EH1 1SX
+44 (0) 131 564 1880
Unit 2.11,
Creative Quarter,
Cardiff,
CF10 1AF
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The PDSA was first established in Sunderland in 1952 and in 2009 began the construction of its new Centre to cope with increased demand.
The new Centre has two additional Consulting Rooms and additional Operating Theatres so that it can cope with a 50% increase in demand. A key driver in this latest design is the sustainability of the building.
The building is heated by air source heat pumps mounted externally at ground level. These units supply heat or cooling through a Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) system to the air conditioning units in the building and also to two heat pump boilers in the Plant Room.
The immediate cost benefit of this approach is that PDSA estimates the energy demand per patient at Sunderland is a third of that of one of its other modern Centres which merely complies with the Building Regulations.
This project won the RICS NE Renaissance Award for Sustainability in 2011.