Tolminkiemis Gymnasium – new school building in Pilaite neighbourhood
School building for educational and learning purposes will soon be constructed in urbanized residential territory of apartments’ in Pilaite, Tolminkiemis str. 2D, Vilnius. Tolminkiemis Gymnasium will open its doors to students of first to twelfth grade.
The teams of UAB “Do Architects”, UAB “Inhus engineering” and UAB “Baltic Engineers” together contributed to the idea of a four-storey, 12 000 m2 area gymnasium. This gymnasium will be suitable for 1 000 students, the education of who is already planned in 88 classes and even more than one gyms.
Heating, ventilation and cooling systems have been designed to ensure the microclimate of the gymnasium premises. Classrooms will have even distribution of cooled air in the area near the windows so that students do not feel the gusts of cool air and thus ensuring the due comfort. Mechanical ventilation systems with extremely high efficiency heat recovery devices are designed for ventilation of gymnasium premises and in order to save space and installation costs to the maximum, ventilation systems of the classrooms and corridors are superposed to ventilate the classrooms during lessons and the corridors during breaks.
Land plot of the project is divided into 5 zones – building, recreational school park, sports grounds, car passage-drive, public leisure park. Football field of at least 3 000 m2 and a running track longer than 100 m are planned on the land plot. Planting of trees and shrubs, installation of a relief bicycle track, a skateboard park, and a children’s playground are designed in leisure park project. The closed area of the school, highlights by an abundance of nature and sports grounds and is designed for activities and recreation of students and staff.
In order to achieve the best result, project engineers, teams of structural engineers and other parts of the project have worked very intensively. The school was designed using BIM technology (Building Information Modelling), which optimizes the design process and helps to avoid critical errors.
“I appreciate every member of the team who directly or indirectly contributed to the project in various preparation stages. When developing and implementing such projects, not only excellent management of the BIM platform, many years of experience, but also the enthusiasm and ambition of the team members – this is the path to the success of the project. I am proud and believe in my team and every member of the team!” – when talking about this project, the Director of UAB Baltic Engineers Darius Kvedaras does not hide his joy and trust in his team.
