C&W - Building Reuse & Adaptability

Building Re-Use and Adaptability Delivering Sustainable Community Led Projects November 2023

The greenest building is one that is already built. We design and deliver redevelopment and reuse of buildings for people whilst providing a sustainable future for our planet.

2

Royal Liver Building, Liverpool

Our Approach Unlocking reuse of commercial assets through repurposing, retrofit and environmental design meets our carbon objectives and aspirations, offers significant planning benefits, helps our investors realise added value on a residual value and revitalises our urban centres.

Socially responsible design and development.

Repurposing built environment assets requires a multidisciplinary approach to consider economic, social, environmental, and cultural factors alongside the technical and physical attributes of the building and its future use. When done thoughtfully with the right specialist knowledge it contributes positively to the sustainability of our urban centres and enhances existing communities.

1

Embodied Carbon & Operation Carbon Carbon use is the key concept to building a sustainable future. Embodied carbon is all the energy used in construction from the extraction of raw materials, their processing, transportation, assembly and end of life disposal or recycling.

Operational Carbon is all the energy used to run a building whilst it’s in use.

When we extend the useful life of a building thought reuse, we conserve the embodied carbon in its materials and frame. This must be done as a holistic and considered approach to balancing preservation of embodied carbon and reducing operational carbon both pre and post renewable energy supply.

Embodied Carbon will be responsible for 50% of total construction emissions over the next 20 years.

As an end user of fossil fuels, the building sector accounts for more emissions than any other sector producing nearly half of total global greenhouse gas emissions. (This figure doesn’t include existing buildings) Significant progress has and continues to be made in reducing Operational Carbon emissions though energy efficient renovations, improvements, and renewable energy sources.

EnerPHit and PassiveHaus - Fabric first principals - Insulation, airtightness and orientation combined with highly efficient services allows significantly reduced Operational Carbon levels to be achieved.

Net Zero Operational Carbon buildings will see Embodied Carbon increasing towards 100% of a building’s overall energy use.

As more and more Net Zero or Carbon positive buildings are built the Political and legislative agenda will continue to realign its focus on reducing and preserving Embodied Carbon.

We are now able to design and deliver net zero carbon buildings with limited or no operational carbon - this is reliant on limiting Carbon though PassiveHaus, decarbonising our energy supply, and on-site renewable energy generation

The thou transpo 2

Embodied Carbon Carbon footprint for all the buildings materials ught out their life cycle. Extraction, processing, ortation, assembly, and deconstruction / recycling.

Royal Arsenal, Woolwich

Operational Carbon The building energy consumption when is use across its lifetime. To keep it warm, cooled, ventilated, lighted and powered.

3

Total Lifetime Energy Use Percentage split between Operational and Embodied carbon for old and new buildings

Embodied Energy

Operational Energy

Typical building

Embodied Energy

Operational Energy High - performance building

4

Embodied Carbon Embodied Carbon represents the carbon footprint of a product in this case a building and its components throughout its entire life cycle.

Preservation of Embodied Carbon is achieved though building reuse.

Limitation of new Embodied Carbon is achieved though low carbon material selection and reuse of existing materials: Construction of buildings use carbon heavy materials and manufacturing processes. Two of the largest carbon contributors are Steel and Concrete both are typically associated with a building’s foundations and frame.

Adaptive Reuse - Modifying an existing building for a new purpose while preserving its architectural features and or frame.

This apporach:

Reduces new construction.

Conserves Embodied Carbon

Helps regenerate and enhance existing communities

Helps preserve our sense of place and identity though retention of our built cultural heritage.

Makes use of existing infrastructure and transport systems.

Provides a residual value on site acquisitions though the planning process pre re-development.

5

Speciality Skills And The Right Team Speciality skills and the right team are needed to work with existing buildings and secure their successful adaptive reuse.

Adapting and reusing buildings needs a different approach with Enhanced Due Diligence. As lead consultant Corstorphine and Wright bring the right skills and the right collaborative team to help lead our clients through the process from feasibility to completion.

Initial Appraisal and Feasibility - Identify appropriate alternative uses.

Structural frame testing - steel and concrete lifespans and types of testing.

Efficient Space Planning - working with existing frames including columns, cores, and apertures.

Viability - Extent of appropriate adaptation.

BSA -Implications and solutions - how can additional cores of suitable size be incorporated to buildings changing risk class though extension.

Understanding loading capabilities of existing frames and foundations for additional upward extensions. Building classes - Understanding robustness and avoiding disproportionate collapse. Partnership with sector specialist Structural Engineers.

6

Cost Control - Partnership with sector specialist and trained Quantity Surveyors.

Material Reuse and Recycling - Circular Economy - Minimise Landfill.

Lifecycle Assessment - Cradle to Grave.

Embassy of Vietnam, South Kensington

End of life

Raw material extraction

Building Life Cycle Assesment

Product use

Assembly

Material

processing

Manifacturing

7

The Team We can offer a complete solution from inception to delivery leading a full multi-disciplinary sub consultant team or we can work with your existing and preferred specialist consultants.

Extensive experience in designing, developing, and enablingmemorable places that invigorate communities and maximiselong term social and commercial value. Experts in converting, reusing, and repurposing buildings for alternative uses. Innovative and socially focused. We are committed to our values working with enjoyment, collaboration, inclusiveness, integrity, and innovation.

Structural Engineer

Sector specialists with an environmental reuse focus.

Experienced in building structure and foundation testing, loading capacities for reuse, additional loadings and robustness though lightweight additional construction.

Specifiers of recycled steel, low embodied carbon materials and low carbon admixtures.

Environmental Consultants

Life cycle, holistic, focused approach to reducing embodied carbon and eliminating operational carbon. Reuse first approach with EnerPHit principals. PassivHaus fabric first approach to all new build elements. Circular economy consideration applied form inception.

MEP Consultants

Future proofed, ventilated (MVHR), renewable energy supplied buildings designed for minimal or net zero carbon. Striving for Carbon Positive buildings through onsite renewable energy generation.

Cost consultants (QS)

Surveyors experienced at working with, adapting and extending existing often historic buildings, their intricacies and unique considerations over and above applying sqm rates for more accurate forecasting and financial planning.

Funding

Buildings capable of accessing the Green Finance Fund.

We recognise many other consultants will be required to complete the team; we have listed out the key ones above to highlight their special qualities, but this is not limited. Every project will have its own individual requirements which will also likely include but again not limited to: Site Investigation and Testing, Planning Consultant, Heritage Consultant, Archaeology, Townscape, Landscape, Arboriculturist, Ecology, SUDS, Daylight and Sunlight Consultant, ROL, Transport Consultant, Air Quality, Acoustic, Building Control, BSA, CDM. 8

Leak Street Arches, Waterloo

9

Our Design Ethos Great places stem from a clear coherent local identity, filling a deep-routed human desire for belonging. They foster a human connection, create a community, and add commercial, civic, social and environmental value to our world.

Contextual, relevant and appropriate design is informed by people, place, purpose, history and collective social responsibility. These combine to generate The Big Idea which underpins a set of beliefs, aspirations, and principals.

That idea provides a social, economic and environmental framework for design decision-making at every scale derived from research, engagement and understanding. It creates a sense of intellectual rigour, consistency and completeness in the finished product.

1 2 3 4

5 10

Distil & Amplify a Sense of Place Contextual analysis of the people, community and local environment inform placemaking.

Generate a Convincing Narrative Rigorous, insight-based response to understand the wider context, opportunities and constraints and opportunity to add wider value.

Prioritise People, Place & Purpose Well-designed considered places are built with people and the community at their heart

Efficient & Sustainable We have a social and collective responsibility to make best use of our natural resources and limit or eliminate carbon emissions wherever possible. We must preserve embodied carbon through retrofit and adaptive reuse as well as continuing to push for net zero operational carbon and minimal additional embodied carbon.

The Big Idea A filter and barometer for all decision-making

We are a multi-sector specialist practice delivering projects nationally. Our approach to projects includes the right team at the right time, with our sector specialists and thought leaders delivering best practice to all of our projects through peer review, project sponsorship and design reviews.

Together, we have designed and delivered an extensive portfolio of mixed use residential led developments across London and the wider UK.

Society and Environmentally focused Big Ideas

Enhanced Due diligence and specialist skills – appropriate alternative use

Adaptive Reuse Enhancing Planning Approvals Value for communities and clients

Preserving Embodied Carbon & Eliminating Operational Carbon

Corstorphine & Wright’s approach to design and architectural language is driven by our five-step design ethos outlined opposite.

We work to retain and reuse existing buildings wherever possible to preserve embodied carbon, historic buildings and a sense of place.

This drives value for communities and clients through collective social and environmentally responsible design.

Our Buildings are designed as shared collective communities, fully integrated without segregation.

They foster social and collective responsibility for the occupier’s immediate and wider environment.

11

ESG Approach We are completely committed to sustainable design it’s at the core of our design and delivery process. We understand the value that innovative and sustainable design can add to a project and to communities as well as its necessity for our future generations and society.

Environmental • Preservation of Embodied Carbon through building reuse • Minimise Operation Carbon though enhanced fabric design and highly efficient systems.

• Use innovative technology and the latest tools to model, calculate and optimise building performance and operation Carbon net zero targeted as standard • Embodied and operational carbon integral to the design not an afterthought • ISO 14001 Certified (Environmental management and monitoring systems) • PassivHaus and EnerPHit Trust Member • Our designs employ PassivHaus and EnerpHIt principles as standard • BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ & ‘Excellent’ • Team of 17 Sustainability Champions • Sustainability framework designed to achieve net zero carbon.

• WELL Standards • A founding member of the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) • Commitment pledge to ‘UK Architects Declare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency’ in 2019

12

Social The concept of social value underscores the vital link between people and their surroundings. As our communities require more support, collaboration within the construction sector can help to significantly improve lives. Corstorphine & Wright is dedicated to partnering with our supply chain to deliver social value on projects, in the process benefiting a broader stakeholder base, enhancing project sustainability, and fostering lasting social impact.

• Provide new rental housing types in professionally run fit for purpose retrofit buildings.

• Regenerate and enhance existing communities - the value of people and place – identity.

• Provide jobs and skills for local people.

• Creating communities and local opportunities through well considered placemaking and inclusive design fostering community inclusion and skills.

• Delivery of apprenticeships, employment and skills training, volunteering opportunities, work experience with our committed to ‘widening participation’.

• Supporting our supply chain in delivering our social value goals - we encourage the specification of materials from local suppliers to ensures money and jobs remain within the local economy.

• Corstorphine & Wright pride ourselves on a high standard and as such we expect the same of our supply chain. The more of us committed to working together to maximise social impact the bigger the difference we can make.

13

Project Governance and Reporting We are experienced in undertaking the lead consultant role of a multi-disciplinary team and establish a ‘one-team’ approach to unite client members, stakeholders, and design disciplines.

Having worked with both public and private sector clients, our most important first step to establish correct project governance is the formation of a “Project Board” with clear and empowered decision-making authority.

• C&W are experienced in undertaking the lead consultant role of a multi-disciplinary team and establishing a ‘one-team’ approach to unite client members, stakeholders, and design disciplines.

• Our first step is to establish correct project governance is the formation of a “Project Board” with clear and empowered decision-making authority.

• Our Quality Management System (QMS), is ISO 9001 accredited.

• Our overarching Quality Management System (QMS), which is ISO 9001 accredited, has established processes for project reporting, and Conflict Resolution and Escalation Procedures.

• Project Board Meetings are a successful mechanism to avoid conflict, maintain relationships and ensure swift project progress – an opportunity for a smaller group of designers and client leads to communicate openly, reporting progress against programme, challenges arising and mitigation.

• Flash Reports are presented to graphically represent any issue and expedite an efficient response.

• Where conflict cannot be resolved at this level, our detailed complaints procedure outlines the sequential approach for further escalation. C&W have a robust approach to cost management having helped many LA clients write the OBC and FBC proposals and monitor costs throughout the design process in conjunction with the Quantity Surveyor, ensuring project delivery on or under budget.

14

The Sidings (Old Eurostar Terminal), Waterloo

15

Selected Clients Public Sector

Universities

16

Commercial

Contractors

17

18

Selected Experience

19

Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London Reuse of Grade II listed factory and new build Sector: Residential Corstorphine & Wright were appointed by Berkeley Homes to develop the optimised design proposals and detailed construction status information for the conversion of a Grade II Listed, former factory building and the insertion of a new build, 10 storey residential block within the historic Royal Arsenal site in Woolwich. he existing factory building is being refurbished to incorporate high quality office, retail and restaurant accommodation with a semi-covered landscaped public courtyard.

The new build element which is being constructed within the footprint of the existing building provides 112 apartments with a mix of 1, 2 and 3 bed flats and duplexes to include fully accessible wheelchair units.

The embodied cardon of the former factory building has been preserved. The new build element has been carefully threaded into and incorporated on the site footprint. Operational carbon efficiencies have been considered through the fabric design, airtightness, orientation, insulation, highly efficient services and renewable energy generation.

20

21

Turner Street Tower Hamlets, London Reuse and extension of a historic warehouse Sector: Residential

This former Victorian clothes warehouse sits at the heart of the vibrant multicultural Whitechapel in London’s East End. Over time the building has been used to make umbrella cases, lampshades and finally it was used as a cloak workshop.

Ultimately the express purpose of each item manufactured was to transition between two different states, in response to contrasting circumstantial change.

The original retained building was reconfigured and refurbished to create two new floors with double height penthouses and hidden roof gardens. The new top two floors tangibly contrast the older building.

22

Corstorphine & Wright took a simple but symbolic detail from the historic fabric, the Crittal window panes which were designed to transition as they ‘drift’ up across the surface of the new top floors, finally breaking free, blending and disappearing into the skyline.

Despite a restrictive budget Corstorphine & Wright delivered a design which communicated both the building and the area’s characteristic whilst retaining the original building for long term future use and in so doing preserved its embodied carbon as well as adding additional value through upward extension.

23

Palace Wharf, Fulham, London Reuse of Grade II listed Wharf with new build intensification Sector: Residential Retention, reuse, and conversion of a listed Wharf located between Fulham Broadway and Hammersmith along the Thames.

Palace Wharf was originally used for importing marble, and by the 1980s was a plaster works.

The derelict site was designed to revitalise this stretch of the river and its surrounding community while creating an attractive brand that balances modern amenities withthe historic, industrial context.

The Wharf was reconfigured to provide 22 luxury apartments with a further 5 new townhouses added.

Embodied carbon was preserved thoughbuilding reuse and operational carbon minimised through construction detailing and specification.

24

25

Victoria House, Bloomsbury, London Reused of a Grade II listed neoclassical building for Life Sciences Sector: Life Sciences Victoria House is a Grade II Listed, neoclassical building in Bloomsbury, London.

Victoria House is a Grade II Listed, neoclassical building in Bloomsbury, London. Corstorphine & Wright have been commissioned to repurpose it and create over 400,000 sq.ft of laboratory enabled accommodation for multiple tenants through the careful refurbishment and adaptation of the building for Pioneer Group. With life sciences as a key focus, flexible, high specification laboratory spaces are being created to attract world leading scientific businesses. Also included will be generous co-working spaces, flexible office spaces, meeting rooms, cafe and a gym amongst other amenity spaces.

26

27

Victoria House, Bloomsbury, London Reused of a Grade II listed neoclassical building for Life Sciences Sector: Life Sciences Victoria House is located within the heart of the Knowledge Quarter where there is an opportunity to address the shortfall in flexible laboratory enabled and incubator accommodation.

The iconic presence and profile of Victoria House will attract large pharma/healthcare, venture capital and start-ups. Collaboration between these complementary disciplines in the heart of the largest city in Europe is directly in line with the aims and objectives of the Knowledge Quarter.

This provides the environment for innovation of national and global significance.

Victoria House has been adapted to accommodate flexible office and CL2 laboratory space •

Adapting Victoria House for life sciences in the heart of the knowledge quarter willcreate a hub of activity and innovationwithin the listed building repurposing it for long term future use.

•

All the areas of historical significancewithin the building including the entrancenlobbies, central lobby, stairwells and lift lobbies, together with the preserved Heritage Rooms and Ballroom have been retained as part of the proposed works.

•

• The MEP installed and office finishes undertaken during the recent refurbishments by the previous landowner in the write-up and ancillary areas will be retained.

•

A retain and reuse approach has been taken.

With recycling as a last resort.

•

In order to provide an element of laboratory use, additional MEP in the form of air handling units, new roof top flue extracts and discreet louvered screens will be required.

•

The buildings reuse preserves the embodied carbon as is to be expected with a listed building. Fabric enhancements have been included as far as the listing will permit to improve the operational carbon.

28

With the proposed alterations Victoria House will appeal to a wide spectrum of companies including: •

Pharmaceutical, drug discovery and therapeutics companies who will need specialist infrastructure through wet lab enabled space

•

Medical technology companies who need dry labs and digital health

•

‘Pharmatech’ and VC funds, lawyers, etc. who need traditional office space

The aspiration is to provide flexible laboratory enabled and write-up space ranging from 150 sqft to 25,000 sqf.t

29

Bradford Court, Digbeth, Birmingham Refurbishment and extension of a historic warehouse Sector: Office The project involves the sensitive and sympathetic extension and refurbishment of the existing office centre to provide an additional 37,800 sq.ft of office floorspace.

There are many attractive features about the existing building, including its Victorian Heritage and mature landscaped courtyard. Our design proposes extensions and alterations to the existing structures increasing the density on the site, whilst retaining and enhancing the existing character.

The extensions comprise a new wing to the main courtyard completing the quad, replacement of a previous unsympathetic extension in the parking courtyard, and one, and two storey rooftop extensions to the main wings. An additional level is also added to the existing tower.

The buildings reuse preserves the embodied carbon as is to be expected with a listed building.

Fabricenhancements have been included as far as the listing will permit to improve the operational carbon.

4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 Design Design Design Design Approach Approach Approach Approach

Design Approach

30

1. Existing Building

2. Remove Existing Elements

1. Existing 1. Existing 1. 1.

Existing Existing Building Building Building Building

2. Remove 2. Remove 2. 2.

Remove Remove Existing Existing Existing Existing Elements Elements Elements Elements

3. Additional Wings 3. Additional 3. Additional 3. 3.

Additional Additional Wings Wings Wings Wings

4. Roof Extension 4. Roof 4. Roof 4.Extension 4.

Roof Extension Roof Extension Extension

TheThe Site The Site The contains Site contains Site contains contains a complex a complex a complex a complex of blocks of blocks of of blocks that blocks thatthat that TheThe proposals The proposals The proposals proposals require require require the require the removal removal thethe removal removal of the of the of of thethe A new A new Ablock new Ablock new replaces block replaces block replaces replaces thethe lowlow the quality the low quality low quality quality One One orOne or two One two or storey or two storey two storey ‘lightweight’ storey ‘lightweight’ ‘lightweight’ ‘lightweight’ roof roofroof roof TheThe proTp extension extension extension extension removed removed removed removed from from the from the from parking parking thethe parking parking extensions extensions extensions extensions areare added are added are added toadded the to the blocks. to to blocks. thethe blocks.

These blocks.

These These These designe desig d were were constructed were constructed were constructed constructed during during during the during the latelate the 19th the late 19th late 19th 19th pitched pitched pitched roofs pitched roofs toroofs the to roofs the three to to three thethe main three main three wings main wings main wings wings century. century. century. century.

TheThe Bradford The Bradford The Bradford Bradford Street Street Street frontage Street frontage frontage frontage is is is is andand theand the low and low the quality the low quality low quality later quality later extension later extension later extension extension to the to the to to thethe courtyard. courtyard. courtyard. courtyard.

This This isThis restricted isThis restricted is is restricted restricted to 3tolevels 3 to levels to 3 levels to 3 levels to to to areare of metal are of are metal of of and metal metal and glass and glass and construction glass construction glass construction construction in in in in massing mass m

31

Chocolate Factory, Bristol Reuse of factory buildings and new build intensificationon Sector: Residential led mixed use Corstorphine and Wright were appointed to redevelop the Elizabeth Shaw Chocolate Factory site in Bristol.

Our design regenerates the site to create a vibrant new mixed-use community which incorporates residential, commercial and community uses.

Where possible, the existing factory buildings have been retained for reuse preserving their embodied carbon. These are supplemented with new houses and apartments arranged around a series of landscaped public spaces.

The site has been opened up with new links to the city’s existing cycle network supported by café and retail facilities located within key buildings to provide a focal point for the wider community.

The design has been developed through extensive local consultation including a series of local workshops. It celebrates the strength of the local materials and the former industrial building forms

A vibrant new mixeduse community which incorporates residential, commercial and community uses.

32

33

University House, Old Street, London Retention and refurbishment with additional new residential over Sector: Residential led mixed use.

This 38,000 sq. ft. warehouse next to East London’s Old Street roundabout has been owned by Corstorphine & Wright’s clients since the 1970s’.

The multi-purpose building contains a yoga centre and commercial offices but takes its name from its main function as a private university. Corstorphine & Wright’s research revealed this early Victorian warehouse to have originated as the factory and offices of ‘The London Fancy Box Company’ printing packaging and stationery with a speciality in gold embossing.

The idea of embossing; embedding a valuable layer and of leaving an impression became the buildings new story relevant to both to the historic and the present purpose of the building, as a symbol of the impression made on the University student’s minds! In architectural terms Corstorphine & Wright ran the story throughout the refurbishment and reconfiguration of the whole building, the studio’s, office’s, classrooms, and the newly created commercial spaces on ground floor.

The form and materiality of the new-build top two floors tells the story more prominently. The floor plates have been translated as the dynamic interlocking plates of an embossing die, as if the top plate has just risen up, leaving its negative now gold embossed form below it. The vacuum between the plates is the inhabited space, consisting of 9 new homes (multiples of 1,2 & 3 bedrooms) each with balcony gardens.

The reconfiguration and retention of the existing building preserves the embodied carbon, preserves the history and character of the street and wider area whilst underpinning and enabling the further additional floors which preserves the longer-term economic viability and future of the building.

34

35

Leak Street Arches, Waterloo, London Reuse and refurbishment of railway arches for retail and leisure Sector: Retail / Leisure Completed in September 2017, this project sees the refurbishment of the arches and vaults beneath the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo Station. It aims to create a vibrant urban dining destination and multi-use areas for events, festivals and pop-up markets.

A high-profile project located on the site of the famous Banksy graffiti tunnel, it involved working closely with local artists and community groups to ensure the scheme embraced the established urban culture and environment – while creating a new, aspirational restaurant, bar and cultural hub to spearhead the regeneration of the South Bank area.

The scheme involved the excavation and removal of existing physical infrastructure to provide new, accessible routes through the site.

36

37

Plummer House, Newcastle Reuse of Grade II listed building and new build Sector: Student Accommodation This project involved a complete and comprehensive internal and external transformation of an unused, Grade II listed building into a high-quality, 250 bed space, Student accommodation development located next to the Scheduled Ancient Monument of Plummer Tower on the Heritage at Risk Register.

We developed a site specific design approach to work with and overcome the historical constraints, breathing life back into the vacant building. This included sensitive retention of historic features such as the internal cornicing and moulding, as well as re-exposing original details.

A new courtyard showcases Plummer Tower and creates a tranquil communal space within the inner city environment.

38

With a mix of units comprised of bed-deck mezzanine apartments within the listed Plummer House, along with new-build studios and cluster apartments, the development offers elegant and innovative design-led apartments, providing relaxing and spacious student living accommodation that caters for all requirements and financial demographics.

39

Union Street, Southwark, London Partial reuse and extension Sector: Offices A short walk from Shakespeare’s Globe and the Shard, this area is frequently divided by historic and contemporary perspectives and uniting them creatively is justifiably celebrated.

The street’s name derives from the union of two once divided boroughs.

Corstorphine & Wright’s client; a travel, PR and media company, are split across two sites. The buildings most significant neighbour is a recent and radical union of Catholics and Anglicans for the Eucharist. From one of the two approaches to the client’s building, it would have acted as a barrier to the church, rendering its grand historic neighbour completely invisible.

The site-specific-story therefore defined the need to bridge two elements, uniting two halves, using the circle (window) to represent the whole.

Corstorphine & Wright designed a means to penetrate the natural massing of the client’s building creating a semi-circular void of curved glazed brick, a ‘visual bridge’ that unites two otherwise divided views and locations, framing the Church’s round window. The clients distinctive building, containing; expansive studios, offices, apartments,and gardened roof terrace, now emphatically conveys the client’s capacity for creative connectivity and for providing focused and effective channels of communication.

40

41

Grafton Centre, Cambridge Reuse of shopping centre with new build surrounding development.

Sector: Life Sciences, Retail and Hotel From the early stages of project delivering a truly sustainable development was at the heart of the design. The brief was to maximise the highest environmental potential beyond national and local sustainability policy requirements, aiming to align with industry best practice within the context of the complex nature of the development.

The key sustainability themes identified for the development were: •

Net zero carbon on construction and in operation

•

Circularity

•

Sustainable water management

•

Climate resilience

•

Wellbeing and social value

•

These aspirations were only possible due to the adoption of specific strategies and features.

These include: •

retention and reuse of parts of the existing

•

structure,

•

optimised façade design balancing daylighting and

•

solar gains,

•

the re-use of existing structural elements,

•

combustion free heating, hot water & cooling,

•

high levels of recycled content in major building elements

•

blue roof water management

•

a biodiverse roof garden with a variety of amenity

42

The Grafton Centre | Design Review Panel 02 | April 2023

6

43

44

45

Key Contacts Glasgow 77 St. Vincent Street Glasgow, G2 5TF T: 0141 222 2676 Darlington Suite 1 Ground Floor, Coniscliffe House, Coniscliffe Road Darlington, DL3 7EE T: 01325 260 055 Leeds The Studio Candle House 1 Wharf Approach Leeds, LS1 4GH T: 0113 213 5656 Manchester The Stables Paradise Wharf Ducie Street Manchester, M1 2JN T: 0161 272 8100

Glasgow

Newcastle Darlington

Manchester

Stourbridge

46

Stourbridge The Old Library Hagley Road Stourbridge, DY8 1QH T: 01384 909 850 Birmingham Floor 20, Alpha Building Suffolk Street Queensway Birmingham, B1 1TT T: 0121 737 8350 Warwick Brook Hall Brook Street Warwick, CV34 4BL T: 01926 658 444 Tamworth 5 Aldergate, Tamworth B79 7DJ T: 01827 67123 London 21-27 Lamb’s Conduit Street, Holborn, London, WC1N 3NL T: 020 7842 0820

Leeds

Tamworth Birmingham Warwick

London

Newcastle Suite 3, Sixty Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6AH T: 0191 816 3437

Canterbury

Canterbury Canterbury Innovation Centre, University Road Canterbury, CT2 7FG T: 01227 786 231

Royal Exchange, Manchester

47

2023

Contact us to discuss your project www.corstorphine-wright.com contact@cw-architects.co.uk corstorphine-wright @cwrightarch corstorphinewright