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Centre Puts Faiths in EVT
Date: 13 February 2003

Excel Building Solutions’ TRADIS EVT Technology has been used to construct two dormitory blocks for a residential inter-faith centre on Holy Island, which is situated near to the Isle of Arran off Scotland’s west coast. In addition to the sustainability and environmental credentials of the EVT structure used for the project, its ability to deliver high levels of insulation was a vital element in its specification to minimise the running costs of the centre.

Relying solely on electricity as a fuel supply, it was important to reduce the space heating requirement of the centre to a minimum to keep heating bills affordable by providing the building with a highly insulated structural shell. The performance of the insulation also has to combat the weather conditions in the exposed location of Holy Island in the Firth of Clyde.

The two-storey dormitory wings were constructed using 240mm deep EVT wall panels and 220mm deep roof plates, delivering U values of 0.14 W/m2K and 0.15 W/m2K respectively. Concrete floors were used at ground level, with 250mm deep Engineered I Beam floor cassettes being used to create the intermediate floors.

The two dormitory wings of the centre house bedrooms, a dining room, kitchen and communal areas and benefit from useable ‘room-in-the-roof’ attic space created by the use of Engineered I Beam rafters in the roof plates, which negate the need for roof trusses used in conventional roof structures.

All of the materials used in the EVT structure adhere to the sustainability requirements for the centre and the EVT-compliant materials used, including BBA-approved Warmcel 500 and Engineered I Beams, are also guaranteed free from CFCs, VOCs or added formaldehyde.

EVT Technology also ensures that normal moisture ingress into the structure, a feature of any inhabited building, safely migrates to the outside, where it is harmlessly expelled to the external atmosphere. By self-regulating moisture levels in this way, the integrity of the EVT structure is always protected.

A rendered concrete blockwork construction and a natural slate roof provide the external finish of the building.

The centre was commissioned by the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Eskdale Muir, Dumfries, who are the owners of Holy Island, and was constructed by Barr Limited of Ayr.