Weobley Primary School is the first UK school to be fuelled from burning locally-produced wood chips. As well as heating the 180-pupil primary school and the 30-pupil nursery school, the wood chips heat the older, adjacent secondary school. Other sustainability features include:
• Making use of solar gain for lighting and heating;
• Use of natural materials, including a timber structure;
• Installation of user friendly environmental controls, for heating and lighting, in the classrooms.
The design was completed in partnership with the end users, and it will be monitored in order to review its performance.