HYVERT All Saints – The Next Chapter

They say, ‘all good things must come to an end’, but when the ‘thing’ is as good as HYVERT, it simply has to be a case of repurpose and reuse – which is exactly what’s about to happen.

Manchester Metropolitan University’s All Saints building, the fabulous home for our HYVERT ‘Living Lab’ for the last twelve months is to be redeveloped with plans submitted to replace it with an ‘innovative design, modern and dynamic learning environment that places students and their learning at its core’. 

Installed in Summer 2023 and bordering the Mancunian Way city by-pass, it has been a most valuable test bed for our Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with the University, enabling a huge variety of experiments and research analysis.

HYVERT All Saints has been extremely successful and since its HYVERT Water management system was installed it has reduced the need for fresh water by 88% by using a combination of harvested rainwater and recycled wastewater!  None of which has negatively impacted plant health. 

So what next?

Ahead of All Saints’ redevelopment, HYVERT will be removed from the site which will allow us to sample in greater depth the types of pollutants it has absorbed over the past year.

It will then be cleaned and repurposed for exciting new research – including a large-scale thermal performance experiment in collaboration with the University of Salford and Manchester Metropolitan University.

We look forward to sharing more research findings very soon.