Redevelopment of CAFRE Loughry Campus

Client

College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE)

Key Services Required

Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
BREEAM
Passivhaus Design
Public Health Design
Commissioning Management

Awards

Project Information

Loughry Campus in Cookstown, which has a specialist focus on education, training, business and technology in the food industry, will be sustainably designed, redeveloped and consolidated. Centralised around a new science hub, the 20,000sqm of new accommodation includes integrated learning and social spaces, conference and reception building, student hub, staff accommodation and student residential village.

Planning approval was granted in September 2024. It is anticipated that construction works will commence in summer 2025 with a completion date targeted for 2031.

• MEP Design
• Public Health Design
• Passivhaus Premium
• BREEAM Outstanding
• High performing Net Zero Operational Carbon building
• Sustainability at core of design

Passivhaus Premium ‘Campuses of the future’ 

Image credit: Hood McGowan Kirk

Cormac Freehill

MCIBSE MIET CEng MSc BEng

A Chartered Building Services Engineer with over 15 years’ experience working with some of the UK’s foremost engineering companies, Cormac has been pivotal to the successful award and delivery of multi-million pound projects since being appointed to the role of Managing Director in June 2020 and rebranding the business as Bennett Freehill.

Cormac brings a new vision, new energy and fresh leadership to the team and is responsible for the strategic growth and development of the business, through supporting and undertaking marketing activities, and the training and development of our technically accomplished staff.  In the role of design team leader and client liaison Cormac ensures that the team delivers pioneering, pragmatic MEP design excellence for our clients. 

Cormac specialises in Passivhaus and Nearly Zero-Energy Building (NZEB) construction and is passionate about, and professionally skilled in, Renewable Energy Systems, Energy, Procurement, Design Management and Consulting Engineering.

Cormac Freehill

MCIBSE MIET CEng MSc BEng

A Chartered Building Services Engineer with over 15 years’ experience working with some of the UK’s foremost engineering companies, Cormac has been pivotal to the successful award and delivery of multi-million pound projects since being appointed to the role of Managing Director in June 2020 and rebranding the business as Bennett Freehill.

Cormac brings a new vision, new energy and fresh leadership to the team and is responsible for the strategic growth and development of the business, through supporting and undertaking marketing activities, and the training and development of our technically accomplished staff.  In the role of design team leader and client liaison Cormac ensures that the team delivers pioneering, pragmatic MEP design excellence for our clients. 

Cormac specialises in Passivhaus and Nearly Zero-Energy Building (NZEB) construction and is passionate about, and professionally skilled in, Renewable Energy Systems, Energy, Procurement, Design Management and Consulting Engineering.