We are part of the project team that has delivered a facility featuring a variety of innovative sustainable technologies, including 15% ETFE rooflights with integrated PV cells, underfloor heating to warehouse, ‘Energi’ panel cladding, solar thermal heating, rainwater collection and re-use within offices, energy efficient T5 lighting within offices.

The development, which is based on a former colliery site at Newcastle-Under-Lyme, North Staffordshire, will also have its own CHP plant fuelled by non fossil fuel, and, when the electrical needs of the development have been met, the surplus will be exported to the National Grid and would be sufficient to both power and heat 2,500 local homes.  The building will use only 45% of the energy presently used by regulatory-compliant building.

These initiatives have contributed towards a BREEAM industrial 2008 Design & Procurement Assessment of Outstanding, which the BRE are due to confirm shortly.

Davis Langdon has also been commissioned to prepare a Life Cycle Assessment, covering the environmental impacts of manufacturing and transport of building materials and systems, their maintenance and replacement, operation energy consumption and end of life issues.

Jonathan Fenton-Jones, global procurement and sustainability director at Gazeley, commented: “By embracing new technologies we have been able to go one step further and create a carbon positive scheme.  This is a cutting-edge development for the UK, and on a global scale, what is being proposed will lead the way in ensuring sustainability continues to be a fundamental part in future projects.”

Mike Wilcock, who heads up Davis Langdon’s Industrial, Distribution and Manufacturing Sub Sector comments, “We have been working continuously with Gazeley for over 10 years in the UK and more recently in the Middle East. The completion of this project and its achievements is a major news story in the industrial world, which we are very pleased to have been involved in.”