Sustainable Building Design: Jumbo Water Tower Redevelopment Plan

This report details a sustainable building design for the redevelopment of the Jumbo Water Tower in Colchester, focusing on social, economic, and environmental growth. The design aims to retain the Grade 2 heritage building while modernizing the interior to include apartments, offices, and a visitor center, with the top floor serving as a public tourist attraction. The plan emphasizes sustainability through the use of renewable technologies, aiming for a 100% electric building powered by small-scale turbines and PV panels. It addresses site management, worker facilities, and public safety during construction, incorporating measures to minimize noise and dust. The report also covers material selection, prioritizing recyclable materials like metal, steel, glass, and aluminum, and outlines a natural ventilation system. Furthermore, it considers the impact on the neighborhood, with plans to minimize disruption during construction and ensure accessibility for all residents. The design incorporates pedestrian and cyclist routes and complies with accessibility standards. The report also touches upon the economic aspects, including maintenance costs and potential offsets through sustainable practices.

Sustainable Building Design
Tower Jumbo

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAINBODY...................................................................................................................................1
Outline plan.....................................................................................................................................1
Materials are used for Jumbo water tower.......................................................................................6
Good neighbourhood plan.............................................................................................................11
Biodiversity report.........................................................................................................................17
Economic...................................................................................................................................17
Environmental..........................................................................................................................18
Environmental considerations.................................................................................................19
Biodiversity assessment.............................................................................................................21
Politics.......................................................................................................................................21
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Sustainable considerations during build stage...............................................................................22
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................23
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................25

INTRODUCTION
Jumbo water tower has been determined as old building which supplied water to whole town
of Colosseum. Nowadays, it was unused for many years so the owner is decided to reuse, convert
along with extent it for productive purpose (Blankenship, 2018). They hired a designer to
reconstruct it in sustainable manner. As a designer, first time I saw Jumbo I was reminded of my
visit to Italy where I visited the colosseum in Rome. This building had a similar impact with its
extraordinary location and the design is impressive. The goal is to retain the grade 2 heritage
building with the view or modernising the tower interior. This will include apartments, offices
and a visitors’ centre. The top floor will be open to the public as a tourist attraction, giving them
the opportunity to take the view from the top of Jumbo.
The aim of the project is to make a plan for construction which focus on sustainability
Social, economic and environmental growth. further is covers the effective modern design of
building which also promote sustainability.
MAINBODY
The survey of Jumbo water tower building is conducted in which designer determines
various facts such as the jumbo water tower found in the center of Colchester was located in a
residential area (Green, 2021). Its needs to the creation of a well-organized plan and Hoardings,
protective panels as per the law exact under the highways act 1980. The closed boarded fences
hoardings must be erected prior to the commencement of building operations.
Outline plan
The future plans will integrate the new building into the existing structure of Jumbo. The current
design will be preserved to retain Colchester’s history. In order to comply with environmental
needs, gas will not be considered for the project. The services to the building will be provided
through renewable technologies (Harris and Chang, 2018). The building will be 100% electric.
Small scale turbines will be mounted to each corner of the upper balcony, with PV on the roof to
the southern and eastern elevations, this will make sure that the most solar gains are achieved,
and most electricity generated.
Lighting within the building will be LED as these require less power to run.
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Recently I got a new information after my own revision and research according to the
architect’s journal 18-07-2022. (M.Fulcher,AJ.),(Architects’ Journal, 18-07-2022). I was very
happy when I saw this information Because in my opinion it is right, to do this project and
maintain in same time the monument a life (Hartley, Ibrus and Ojamaa, 2020). As per this article
the people of this locality denied the planning application for restoration of the water tower
jumbo of Colchester but now after Final round between participants like Nissens Richards,
Burell Foley Fisher and Purcell. This was elicitation, basically a competition, The Purcell, they
win this competition to change the Jumbo situation in three elements: restore; extend; end
convert.
In my outline plan I prefer all the structure to incorporate into the new building according to the
heritage historic buildings great 2 we need preserved design and all the aspect historical. It has
been determined that the plan must be approved by the local authority, according to the health
and safety Work Act 74 and according CDM 2015 while starting the construction in order to
secure the site (Hubregtse, 2020). For construction and renovation, I need to make site
management plan and provide facility for workers who are working in this site. Further, it is
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needed to be fixed the Heras fence and hoardings with lights visible for the night-time along with
keep the public separate and safe in order to prevent people from accidents, avoid noise and dust.
First I need to make a plan for services like sewers and drainage storm water further we install
the electric system connection in order to exclude the gas system because it's more difficult and
expensive to implement (Jumbo and Moghaddass, 2022). The building developer want to be a
sustainable building for that this system is effective and simpler.
In next stage, I make a plan for infrastructure and groundworks for this the pylons drilled
15m deep under the ground for making the foundation stronger so the heavy building staying
stable and safe. The design of the groundwork and base of building is shown below-
In the above picture present the design of groundwork with different colors which helps to
protect residents against dust, noise and accidents. The elements which is used in construction
are electric panels, pylons and others. These panels provide lights, energy that facilitate visibility
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at night along with that the we can use this panels to display advertisements that will visibly put
the name of the company which construct this site. In above picture and design, the blue
rectangles and squares on the plan represent area or rooms for office, reception area, cafeteria,
toilets, smoking area and other facilities for workers. the red cross is an office for possible
meeting and intervention. protection for trees is symbolized with yellow (Kalić, Dožić and
Babić, 2022). The orange X represents the parking area where the stable fixed crane and other
vehicles will park which used for construction. The orange arrows represent the drainage storm,
and the red arrows sewers. The hexagon represents the manhole channel, black dots are
electricity and the green line is internet and fiber optics.
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Purcell wins contest to restructure Colchester's "Jumbo" water tower (architectsjournal.co.uk)
After groundwork, we can organize next stage for crane lifting operations material transport and
start build the interior vertical Metal structure….
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Materials are used for Jumbo water tower
In order to rebuild the Jumbo water tower, the material will use like Concrete, Steel, Metal
Profile, Glass, Cement, Aluminium in interiors, Solar panels, isolation foam, thermal insulation,
acoustic membranes, waterproof membranes, point of view off sustainability and many other
materials. I want to develop a system of ventilation like natural ventilations is a system which
was in a passive house (Kingwell, 2021). It is a similar principle with the hot air which come
from the bottom and go through the top so for that open the window and then create the natural
ventilation. I hope they agree with this project and I want to make a new roof the solar panels.
For the sustainability of this building regardless of the life of the construction, the materials are
recyclable 100% Metal Steel Glass, aluminum, practically the same materials are used as for
skyscrapers (Lasrado, 2018).
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In this image, it is a machine which is used to for reconstructing the building in effective manner
in the given space of street without making any problems for people related to their travelling
and parking vehicles. Site security
the primary objectives off site security are security against theft, security from vandals,’
protection from innocent trespasses, internal site protection and night security may all be
necessary.
Low cab list for small or valuable items (Li and Han, 2022).
 Guard for gate attendant to cheque on validity for all persons entering on site
 Temporary service consideration
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