Kidderminster outlet is first to achieve top environmental rating.
Morrisons’ new Kidderminster store has become the first retail development in the UK to achieve a BREEAM 2006 ‘Excellent’ rating, with Faber Maunsell acting as BREEAM assessor.
The development, designed by Bowman Riley Architects, uses CHP systems to generate part of the store’s on-site electricity, with the waste heat generated used to heat the store. It also includes new energy efficient refrigeration measures for food storage areas, solar panels on the roof to provide hot water and intelligent lighting systems to minimise the need for artificial light.
Susannah Goddard, Faber Maunsell’s sustainability consultant, said: “We were delighted to be approached by Bowman Riley to work with them on this groundbreaking project. Morrisons wanted to find an environmentally sustainable store design and technology blueprint which embraced ecology, the health and wellbeing of occupants, pollution, water, materials and waste as well as transport and management with a view to establishing a target design standard for all its developments in the future.
“With this in mind, we worked with Bowman Riley and the rest of the project team to design a store which would meet the sustainability targets required to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating whilst taking into account such factors as viability, affordability and future environmental benefit.”
It is also claimed that the new sales floor lighting system will reduce energy consumption by around 40%, and that the aggregate derived from the demolition of the existing buildings on the site was reused in the building’s construction.
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Building Sustainable Design
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