Sustainability
Efficient, sustainable, and well-being design
The refurbishment of the site provides a host of opportunities to create a more efficient building. These include:
- Provide a sensitive and sustainable upgrade of the existing building.
- Adopt a ‘fabric first’ approach which will minimise energy consumption and maximise the retention of embodied carbon.
- Minimise operational carbon to help transition to net zero carbon onsite.
- Move to all-electric plant and services, shifting away from relying on gas.
- Deploying photovoltaics (PV) on any available unshaded roof spaces.
- Bring forward best practice solutions for the building, including sustainability, biophilic and well-being design.
- Adoption of a “design for Performance” approach to minimise performance gap against planned improvement and optimise in-use energy performance.
External planting
Maximising urban greening and biodiversity
A strategy for external planting is at the heart of the proposals, to enhance biodiversity and improve the public realm appearance of the site.
The seventh-floor terrace leads the landscaping plans, with substantial urban greening planned to enhance the look and feel of the outdoor area. All levels above the first floor will also feature balconies or private roof terraces, which will be decorated with plants.
