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Eco Centre
The new Eco Centre will be the county hub for courses focussing on education for sustainable development including heritage and sustainable building skills, rural crafts, the arts and the environment, healthy living and energy saving/ renewable energy (see climate change for more information on saving energy).
Funded by Derbyshire County Council, The Learning and Skills Council and Derby and Derbyshire Economic Partnership it will be at the heart of the county’s drive to combat climate change
Featuring the latest energy-saving technology, the building will be a national and regional showcase for sustainable development and will help us to develop the work of our College of the Peak by providing a large workshop/studio, a meeting and exhibition area with IT facilities and a covered outdoors area to enable practical work to take place in all weathers.
Traditional countryside crafts will also continue to be preserved with courses in dry stone walling, stone masonry, lime rendering, slate roofing and woodland crafts.
With its state-of-the-art design, it will feature a range of sustainable building systems including a green roof, a water harvesting system, thermal heat pumps and solar panels.
The Eco Centre has been chosen as a national case study by The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC).
For more information see the website links in the information on other website section.
Courses will be run by the Adult Community Education Service, College of the Peak, and the National Stone Centre, which will share the facilities.
Planning consent has now been approved and building work should start in early summer 2009 for completion in February 2010.
You can get further information by emailing chris.timms@derbyshire.gov.uk.
