Monifieth Learning Campus

Monifieth Learning Campus is a school for 1,200 pupils with a 25-metre competition pool, 13,795 m² built at £66.5 million. It is in the final stages of Passivhaus Classic certification, and it is the first large-scale Passive House building in Angus.

Mosart is the Passivhaus certifier. The campus is one of the most technically complex education buildings of its kind in Scotland: general teaching alongside workshops, industrial kitchens and a competition pool, each with very different heat, moisture and ventilation demands, all held to one standard.

The pool hall sat outside the usual Passivhaus rules. We worked with the Passivhaus Institut in Darmstadt, who came on as co-certifier for that element under a simplified method that accounts for the heat and humidity a pool carries. The mix of uses also called for a bespoke Primary Energy Renewable benchmark from the Institut rather than a standard value.

The main building tested at 0.44 air changes per hour at 50 Pa, comfortably inside the 0.6 Passivhaus limit. The campus was delivered for Angus Council with NORR as architect and Robertson as main contractor. High performance does not stop at the easy building types.