Windhive for education

Fresh air, healthy classrooms — better learning environments

SEN provision, independent schools and academy trusts are faced with the same three challenges: air quality that meets BB101, classrooms that overheat through the summer term, keeping running costs low. Windhive® answers all three from a single roof-mounted unit.

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How Windhive works

Schools & academy trusts
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The brief

The real world challenges

The challenge How Windhive answers
  • Meeting BB101 ventilation criteria in occupied classrooms
  • CO2 climbing through a lesson in a full room
  • Overheating through the summer exam period
  • Noise in teaching and exam spaces, and for noise-sensitive pupils
  • 100% fresh air with heat recovery, no fans
  • Sensors that respond to CO2 and temperature through the teaching day
  • Night purge to take heat out of the structure before the next morning
  • Silent in the room, supporting the acoustic strategy
  • Near-zero ventilation running cost, carried across the life of the building
  • Cloud monitoring across an estate, so a trust can see every site in one place

By the numbers

Performance that holds up at tender

BB101

Supports a strategy that meets the ventilation criteria

TM52

Supports the overheating assessment

BB93

No fan noise in the occupied space

1,600

kWh per unit per year, modelled against natural ventilation without heat recovery

Project evidence

Windhive in schools

In use for over a year

“The building has now been in use for a year and is having a profound impact on how we operate as a school.”

Yomi Adewoye · Headteacher, Southwark Inclusive Learning Centre

Woodgate Primary School

“In the really hot weather the classrooms are very cool and airy.”

Dawn Mitchell · Premises Officer, Woodgate Primary School

Designing ventilation for a school or a trust estate?

Send us the building. We will model it, and give you a Windhive layout you can take into the design team meeting.

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