Burry Port School wins three awards for eco-friendly design
Burry Port Community Primary School has won not just one, but three awards for its innovative, imaginative and eco-friendly design. The £3.8 million school, which opened in September last year, has been recognised in the prestigious RIBA Architecture Awards 2016. It won the RSAW Welsh Architecture Award, the RSAW Sustainability Award and Andrew Tidy, Projects Delivery Team Leader within Carmarthenshire Council’s Property Design section, won the RSAW Property Architect of the Year jointly with George Mikurcik of Architype Architects, who were involved with the project via the contractor. The school, delivered by WRW Ltd, was built as part of the council’s Modernising Education Programme, with part funding from the Welsh Government’s 21st Century Schools initiative. Utilising a modular timber frame construction of sustainable Welsh timber, it is officially the first educational building in Wales the country to pass the stringent Passivhaus standard owing to its super energy efficiency ...