British Red Cross Resource Centre
First Aid training and resource centre certified BREEAM Very Good at the Design Stage element. Encon Associates were appointed by Architects Sursham Tompkins to provide BREEAM expertise to keep this project on target for the targeted BREEAM Very Good.
The Design Stage assessment also called the interim stage, provides evidence of the building’s performance at the design stage of the life cycle. Assessment and certification ideally occurs prior to the beginning of operations on site. The certified BREEAM rating at this stage is labelled as ‘interim’ because it does not represent the building’s final, new construction BREEAM performance.
To be able to complete an assessment at this stage the design must be advanced to a point where the relevant design information is available to enable the BREEAM Assessor to evaluate and verify the building’s performance against the criteria defined in this scheme document. The interim Design Stage assessment will, therefore, be completed and certified at the scheme design or detailed design stages.
Having worked closely with the design team throughout this project, the target of BREEAM Very Good for design stage is now complete, achieving it’s required Very Good comfortably.
The ground floor includes a reception, training room, staff office and breakout room with a large open plan office, meeting room and hot desk area on the first floor. Externally, a new pedestrian walkway from the main road to the building was created along with a car park and new boundary walls.
Design Team: Sursham Tompkins, Tompkins Robinson Surveyors,
Main Contractor: Borras Construction
Value: £1.25m
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Client British Red Cross
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Location Chelmsford
Up in 38 weeks!
This project was expertly built by firm Borras Construction Limited, and managed to do it in an impressive 38 weeks! To top it off, they recorded footage of the feat so you can really see what a great job they did!
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