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Our approach in action

Cheadle Eco Business Park, Stockport

Solar Panels
30%

10% 100%
Roof Lights Smart Air Source
Lighting and Heat Pump
All Electric BMS Steel Cladding
60% Heating/ Energy Low Embodied
Provision
Carbon Fabric
Modified Timber
Cladding
On-site
Renewable
Energy
Generation
Rainwater
Collection
+ Renewable Insulation
90%
Engineered
Timber Frame
Carbon Savings
Natural
70% Ventilation
Reduced
Reinforcement
Concrete
Carbon Internal
Savings Cycle
Amenities
Significant
External
Significant
EV Charging Biodiversity Net
Provision Wellbeing- Gain Above
External Sustainable Local Policy
Amenity Surface Water
Provision Management
Cheadle Eco Business Park is one of our “Pioneer Upfront embodied carbon is minimised through a
Projects” and comprises a 115,000 sq ft industrial glulam timber frame, fibre reinforced ground floor
development for Stockport Metropolitan Borough slab, and accoya timber cladding.
Council.
The operational energy performance is enhanced
Our brief for the project was to create an through high enhanced thermal performance, hybrid
environmentally exemplar light industrial employment natural ventilation and solar PV energy generation.
development with building fabric and technologies of Operational energy performance and occupant
innovative standards. wellbeing will benefit from rooflights and sunpipes for
enhanced daylighting.
The project is targeting BREEAM Outstanding,
putting it within the top 1% of developments in terms The wider site prioritises green space with significant
of environmental performance, and the design has onsite net gain in biodiversity, achieved though
been developed in consideration of the emerging UK enhanced landscaping and a SUDs strategy that
Net Zero Carbon Building Standards in terms of both promotes multi-functionality through blue green
construction and operation. features such as swales and rain-gardens.

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