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Sustainable Design and Operation
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Sticking a sustainable plaster on our projects isn’t the answer for us. We get right in there at the earliest stage of a scheme to make sure we start with a sustainable approach on day one.
What We've Been Doing
- All our residential plots at the Athletes Village project are on track to achieve Level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes. The academy, health and community centre and retail units at the Athletes Village are set to achieve a BREEAM Excellent rating. We participated in the BREEAM Communities pilot for the Athletes Village and MediaCityUK and scored 70 per cent or more for each project. The scheme helps planners and developers improve, measure and independently certify the sustainability of development proposals at the planning stage.
- We’ve got 81 construction and project management projects in progress in the UK. We have either achieved, or are on target to achieve the following BREEAM ratings:
Excellent 40%
Very Good 23%
- In Central Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) eight of our projects are well on the way to LEED certification and our Dubai office is LEED certified.
Design
- We trialled CEEQUAL - the infrastructure equivalent of BREEAM - on our car park at the Athletes Village, and are using it on the bridge works at our Hungate site in York.
- We’re reviewing the Greenwich Peninsula masterplan using a unique sustainable masterplanning tool developed by Hilson Moran Partnership and leading specialists in the built environment.
- Our sustainable design group shares best practice across the business in the UK.
Operation
- Green office plans are a given for Lend Lease offices in the UK – they all have them. We keep the energy behind them high by running internal campaigns and competitions. MediaCityUK won the latest competition after they installed sensor lighting, waterless urinals and photovoltaic’s. They measured every employee’s commuting carbon footprint as a starting point to encourage sustainable travel.
- All our retail centres have sustainability plans. ‘Park Mark’ is a scheme aimed at reducing crime and fear of crime in car parks. Both our Bluewater and Touchwood shopping centres have achieved the mark.
- All of our developments have sustainability strategies and each of our construction sites operate an environmental management plan in the UK.
- In CEMEA, our operations are working towards ensuring environmental management plans are in place for every project.
What's next
- We’ve moved to a new regional headquarters at 20 Triton Street, Regent's Place, London. We’re making sure it reflects our thinking on sustainability and using the design as a way of engaging with our employees and visitors about sustainability.
- When we update our sustainability plans for our retail centres this year we’ll be including annual performance targets for energy, carbon, water and waste.
- We will continue to work with designers to encourage further innovation that reduces carbon, waste and water. We’ll be using green building rating tools as much as possible.
- We are working to ensure our new office in Spain is LEED certified.
Case Study: Campus Palmas Altas
Headquarters for Abengoa in Seville
First building in Europe to achieve pre–certification LEED platinum core and shell
First prize winner 2010 Prime Property Awards
Winner of 2010 RIBA Award
Key Performance Data
Power Consumption: 66% of the energy required is generated on site
Solar transmission coefficient of glazing:15-30%
Estimated CO2 emission reduction:124 tonnes
Our construction and project management business provided construction management services for Abengoa’s new headquarters in Palmas Altas in Seville, Spain. It’s the first business park dedicated to innovation in Andalucia and the biggest business and technological complex in southern Spain. Sustainability - and specifically the achievement of LEED certification - was one of the main project objectives.
The complex’s seven, four-storey buildings will use 50 per cent less energy than conventional buildings and will progressively reduce CO2 emissions.
Sustainable design elements include:
- solar photovoltaic panels
- trigeneration to simultaneously produce electricity, heating and cooling
- Stirling disk and hydrogen batteries to produce additional energy and efficient air conditioning and lighting systems.
The highly sustainable design includes a number of passive energy-saving measures. Maximum use is made of the natural light and Seville sunshine with double glazed facades and internal atriums. The buildings have been laid out with facades facing east and west achieving passive shading and reducing the need for solar protection.
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