STRIDE TREGLOWN AND SUSTAINABILITY A TOZ

ALLOTMENTS

ALLOTMENTS

Built by staff

Opened in 2012 by the Soil

Association

One of our One Planet Living

initiatives

BIM

BIM

This year we have signed up to environmental modelling

software Sefaira

CARBON NEUTRAL

CARBON NEUTRAL

Our Cardiff Office became officially Carbon Neutral after

we added 100m2 PV array in 2011.

It was the Highest BREEAM Outstanding rating in the

country when it was designed.

DAYLIGHT

DAYLIGHT

We have designed many

atrium buildings and some of

the best daylit offices in the

south-west.

EUROPEAN GREEN CAPITAL

EUROPEAN GREEN CAPITAL

Our Filwood Green Business Park is one of the

Green Capital’s flagship schemes this year.

Due to our active promotion of sustainability in the

City we were invited to speak at the official launch

of Bristol European Green Capital.

This month, in addition to Green Week, we are

exploring Sustainable Landscape, next month is

Sustainable Leisure.

FABRIC FIRST

FABRIC FIRST

Our BREEAM Outstanding Environment and

Sustainability Institute in Tremough has very low U

values:

0.05 floor/ 0.12 walls/ 0.07 roof/ 0.9 windows

(it also sent zero waste to landfill, and has a 35,000

litre rainwater harvesting tank)

In 2012 we also improved the insulation at

Promenade House and replaced all the windows in

the drawing studios

gREEN

WEEKS

gREEN

WEEKS

This is our 5th Green Week and last year we set

up Business Green Week with Low Carbon

South West and Business West.

This year 47 local companies have signed up,

including the BBC, UWE and River Cottage

HONEY

HONEY

In 2011 our first beehive was installed at Promenade House.

Last year our three hives produced about 100 jars of honey.

We have just submitted a planning application for a new apiary

for Bristol Beekeeper, which is being exhibited in an RIBA ‘Green

Manifesto’ exhibition tonight.

HONEY

INNOVATION

INNOVATION

Our Letchworth housing is constructed using hemp and lime.

In 2010 we produced a drug-detox centre at Boscence Farm in

Cornwall, based on the design of historic settlements in the area.

This also incorporates hemp insulation and uses sustainable

materials such as timber frame, larch cladding, green roofs and

locally reclaimed stone walling.

JOINTLY OWNED

JOINTLY OWNED

Earlier this year we followed the John Lewis model and became

Employee owned.

KILOWATTS

KILOWATTS

Our Cardiff Office PV array is 15.7 kW.

With the Feed-in Tariff they earn us

over £5k a year as well as providing us

with free power

Our intranet Sunny Portal lets staff

monitor live solar information.

LOW IMPACT WEDNESDAY

LOW IMPACT WEDNESDAY

This Wednesday we have talks by 4 wildlife speakers, a

Shwopping event, a challenge highlighting how much paper we

use as a company and a foraging walk.

MATERIALS

MATERIALSWe have delivered several glulam framed Sainsbury’s.

Our latest store at Portishead has an extensive PV array on the

roof, a biomass boiler, rainwater harvesting and an exceptionally

high airtightness of 1.24 changes/hr

NATURE

NATURE

Our Chatham Street Eco Residences has bird and bat boxes.

(It also has air source heat pumps, pre-heated fresh air to

bedrooms assisted by waste heat recovery, solar thermal panels for

hot water demand and rainwater harvesting)

Recent photo of Cardiff office’s green roof

A bird box made by Robin Davis, submitted for one of our Green

Week birdbox design competition, has a pair of nesting bluetits in it.

We’ve recently been appointed by BCC to develop designs for a

Green Wall in Stokes Croft.

ORIENTATION

ORIENTATION

Our passive solar development at Great Bow Yard was named the

‘Most energy efficient street in the UK’ in a study by Eon and

Sheffield University when it was built.

We used sunspaces in our Letchworth ecohouses scheme and

have since explored the wintergarden concept on apartment

buildings.

PASSIVHAUS

PASSIVHAUS

Our British Homes Awards Passivhaus competition finalist is set to

be built in the near future.

We have designed 3 passivhauses in south Bristol which are

currently on site, being delivered by GCP architects.

We now have our own Passivhaus capability when Seya Tansill

became accredited last year.

We are currently developing a passivhaus scheme in Evesham.

QUALITY

QUALITY

We have been using ISO 14001 Quality and

Environmental accredited for 10 years

It is managed by Simon Trew and our Environmental

Assessment team

RE-USE

RE-USE

Our Heartlands development

achieved BREEAM Excellent for all

buildings including 10 Grade II* and

6 Grade II.

It has a biomass district heating

scheme, 180,000 litre site wide

rainwater recycling system.

25,000m3 contaminated spoil from

works including arsenic, heavy

metals & Japanese knotweed yet

less than 5% finally removed from

site.

STRAW BALES

Our extension to UWE’s architecture school has a

straw bale insulated lecture theatre.

The building is the first to use a new rain screen

cladding tile made from recycled slate and clay dust. A

chip fat bio-fuel boiler, PV roof and rainwater

harvesting are also incorporated.

STRAW BALES

TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY

Our double PV array at the National Composite Centre

is the largest in Bristol.

We have recently won planning approval to put PVs

onto our listed Plymouth office, in appeal.

At Tremough we used a concrete-saving technique in

the building’s structure

USP…

USP…

… is our staff!

vOSA

vOSA

Our building for the Vehicle Testing Agency

is naturally ventilated using natural stack

principles and is designed to have high

levels of daylighting. It has high thermal

mass, high insulation and airtightness

levels and has an array of PVs.

WILDFLOWER STRIP

In 2013 we dug up a strip of grass outside

our offices along the Promenade. In the

same year that we invited BCC’s Meadow

Bristol team and the designer of the

Olympic parkland, Nigel Dunnett to speak at

a seminar on bees we organised for our

Green Week.

We sowed more seeds this year when we

successfully signing up to a Lottery funded

Kew gardens scheme. We will be putting out

signage this week advertising the initiative.

WILDFLOWER STRIP

X INTERNAL CALLS

X INTERNAL CALLS

DURING GREEN WEEK TO

ENCOURAGE STAFF TO GET UP

AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS AND EXERCISE IN THE OFFICE

YOGA

YOGA

A third of our Bath office have weekly

yoga sessions

ZOE

ZOE

From a test trial of an electric bike we now

have our own electric bicycle and Zoe our

electric car has been well-used since

introduced last year. We have now installed

an electric charging point in Cardiff in

addition to the one in Bristol.