Portsmouth, United Kingdom
City population: 514053
Duration: unknown – 2007
Implementation status: Completed
Scale: Sub-microscale: Street scale (including buildings)
Project area: unknown
Type of area: Building
Last updated: October 2021

The University of Portsmouth Library extension project includes a green roof with sustainability features signed up to a Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) assessment. (3) The award-winning features include the rainwater collection system for flushing toilets and a sedum roof. (2)

University of Portsmouth Library extension
Source: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/new-extension-university-portsmouth-library.html

Overview

Nature-based solution

  • Nature on buildings (external)
  • Green roofs
  • Green areas for water management
  • Sustainable urban drainage systems

Key challenges

  • Water management (SDG 6)
  • Stormwater and rainfall management and storage
  • Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
  • Green space creation and/or management

Focus

Creation of new green areas

Project objectives

- Designed to achieve high BREEAM rating of Very Good (2) - Inclusion of sustainable features such as a sedum roof and rain water collection system (2) - Creation of a high quality green public space around the new library building which has not only great benefit to students and staff but the wider community of Portsmouth (7)

Implementation activities

- Construction of the new library buildings with gateway to a public park (7) - Installation of a sedum roof (2) - Installation of a rainwater harvesting system for water collection for flushing toilets. (2)

Main beneficiaries

  • Researchers/University
  • Citizens or community groups

Governance

Management set-up

  • Led by non-government actors

Type of initiating organisation

  • Researchers/university

Participatory approaches/ community involvement

  • Unknown

Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project

The University of Portsmouth iwas the head for this project and has partially funded the project (2). In the design planning and realisation of the project several contractor companies as architects and structural engineers took part such as Penoyre & Prasad LLP, Gifford and Partners and Fitzpatrick Contractors Ltd (5)

Project implemented in response to ...

... an EU policy or strategy? Unknown
... a national policy or strategy? Unknown
... a local policy or strategy? Unknown

Financing

Total cost

Unknown

Source(s) of funding

  • Public national budget
  • Corporate investment

Type of funding

  • Direct funding (grants, subsidies, or self-financed projects by private entities)

Non-financial contribution

Unknown

Impacts and Monitoring

Environmental impacts

  • Green space and habitat
  • Increased green space area

Economic impacts

  • Unknown

Socio-cultural impacts

  • Unknown

Type of reported impacts

Achieved impacts

Presence of formal monitoring system

Unknown

Presence of indicators used in reporting

No evidence in public records

Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports

No evidence in public records

Availability of a web-based monitoring tool

No evidence in public records

References

1. University of Portsmouth. (n.d). Portsmouth University Library Extension. Website not available
2. Portsmouth University Library. 2008. ‘Completing’ the University Library at Portsmouth. Accessed on November 12, 2020, Source link
3. University of Portsmouth. (n.d). Green Portsmouth. Website not available
4. Freerain. (nd). Commercial rainwater harvesting projects. Website not available
5. MPA - The Concrete Centre (n.d). Portsmouth Library Extension, Portsmouth, Accessed on November 12, 2020, Source link
6. Penoyre & Prasad LLP (n.d). University of Portsmouth Library, Accessed on November 12, 2020, Source link
7. Fulcher, M. (2010). Penoyre & Prasad lands Solent Design award, Architects' Journal, Accessed on November 12, 2020, Source link