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more than 17,000 students and 2,500 staff. The Engineering Building at NUIG is
a state of the art educational facility designed to be a “living laboratory” where
the building itself is an interactive teaching tool. The Engineering Building opened
in 2011, it is the largest engineering building in Ireland and includes lecture
halls, classrooms, offices, laboratory facilities, a caf´ e, showers, and bathrooms.
The building accommodates approximately 1,100 students and 100 staff on four
floors (in 14,000 meters square of floor space). The majority of students are
undergraduates aged 18-24 years.
5.4 Col´ aiste na Coiribe School
Similar to the university, a secondary school in Galway has both staff members
and students as target users. The main difference is the age groups of users which
range from kids to adults on this site. Col´ aiste na Coiribe (CnaC) is an Irish
language secondary school with approximately 350 students and 25 teaching and
administrative staff. The existing school is housed at a small location in the city
center. To facilitate the demand for places at the school and to address space
pressures, a new school (7,400 meters square) was under constructed at a suburban
location in Galway.
This new school building serves as a pilot for Waternomics. The new school
accommodates up to 720 students (aged 12-18) and includes classrooms, offices,
sports halls and associated toilet and shower facilities. As the school was identified
as a suitable pilot site at the early stages of construction it provided an opportunity
for the Waternomics project team to engage with the designers and contractors in
the deciding on the provision of water metering and water information infrastructure
for the building. In addition, it provided a unique opportunity to monitor this new
building from the beginning of its occupation.
The new school building opened in October 2015, it facilitated engagement
with students at an early age regarding water consumption behavior. Furthermore,
these students tested and gave feedback to the project on how the platform
functions in communicating complex water-related data to a wider audience. The
collaboration between the school and the Waternomics project resulted in students
actively providing inputs to the project (e.g. user interface design, applications
etc.). The school management faces key budgetary and conservation targets; to
date reporting on water and associated energy consumption has been very limited.
The pilot informs future design of similar buildings with particular focus on water
conservation measures and rainwater harvesting systems.
Umair et al.
more than 17,000 students and 2,500 staff. The Engineering Building at NUIG is
a state of the art educational facility designed to be a “living laboratory” where
the building itself is an interactive teaching tool. The Engineering Building opened
in 2011, it is the largest engineering building in Ireland and includes lecture
halls, classrooms, offices, laboratory facilities, a caf´ e, showers, and bathrooms.
The building accommodates approximately 1,100 students and 100 staff on four
floors (in 14,000 meters square of floor space). The majority of students are
undergraduates aged 18-24 years.
5.4 Col´ aiste na Coiribe School
Similar to the university, a secondary school in Galway has both staff members
and students as target users. The main difference is the age groups of users which
range from kids to adults on this site. Col´ aiste na Coiribe (CnaC) is an Irish
language secondary school with approximately 350 students and 25 teaching and
administrative staff. The existing school is housed at a small location in the city
center. To facilitate the demand for places at the school and to address space
pressures, a new school (7,400 meters square) was under constructed at a suburban
location in Galway.
This new school building serves as a pilot for Waternomics. The new school
accommodates up to 720 students (aged 12-18) and includes classrooms, offices,
sports halls and associated toilet and shower facilities. As the school was identified
as a suitable pilot site at the early stages of construction it provided an opportunity
for the Waternomics project team to engage with the designers and contractors in
the deciding on the provision of water metering and water information infrastructure
for the building. In addition, it provided a unique opportunity to monitor this new
building from the beginning of its occupation.
The new school building opened in October 2015, it facilitated engagement
with students at an early age regarding water consumption behavior. Furthermore,
these students tested and gave feedback to the project on how the platform
functions in communicating complex water-related data to a wider audience. The
collaboration between the school and the Waternomics project resulted in students
actively providing inputs to the project (e.g. user interface design, applications
etc.). The school management faces key budgetary and conservation targets; to
date reporting on water and associated energy consumption has been very limited.
The pilot informs future design of similar buildings with particular focus on water
conservation measures and rainwater harvesting systems.