Ultimate Office Park recieves BREEAM greenie points
09.04.09
Maxim Office Park, a £330m business park development at Eurocentral in Lanarkshire, has achieved top marks in its BREEAM assessments.
Designed to a rating of ‘Very Good’, Maxim building 5 - the largest of the commercial developments on the site, has exceeded its predicted rating and achieved a BREEAM score of ‘Excellent’. The remaining nine buildings each achieved a rating of ‘Very Good’.
Consisting of ten commercial buildings, Maxim Office Park has a total floor plate of 756,000 sq. ft - the equivalent to 27 football pitches and is the largest speculatively built office park scheme in the UK. It is one of Scotland’s key business locations and once completed could provide around 7,000 new jobs.
The scheme, branded as the ‘ultimate office park’, has been heralded as the blueprint for 21st century business park construction due to its sheer scale, high quality design and onsite facilities.
It has been developed in one single phase by TAL CPT Land Development using a team consisting of M&E consultants Hulley & Kirkwood Consulting Engineers, contractor Bowmer & Kirkland, architect Keppie Design and M&E contractor Bailey Building Services.
As well as providing an M&E design consultancy role to the Client, Hulley & Kirkwood undertook the BREEAM assessments for the whole site using Hulley ECO, their sustainability section.
Sustainable solutions at Maxim Office Park includes the use of high performance glazing designed to reduce solar heat gain in each of the buildings, energy efficient lighting, controlling light infiltration during daylight hours, rainwater recycling systems and water fittings that run on a low water content, and heating and cooling systems which when installed provide a high efficiency variable refrigerant flow.
Bruce Elrick, BREEAM Assessor at Hulley & Kirkwood, undertook the BREEAM assessments for each building at the office park;
“This is an exciting project for Hulley & Kirkwood. We are delighted to have been involved in both the design and the BREEAM assessment for the development and are delighted with Maxim 5’s rating of Excellent”.
“Hulley & Kirkwood have seen the site come full circle. They provided M&E design for the Chunghwa Picture Tubes factory that was previously located at the Eurocentral site.”
Maxim Chief Executive, Karen Campbell is delighted the BREEAM ratings reflect her ambitions for the development in UK terms.
“Maxim is going to deliver results for Scotland and the UK as a world-class business location which will provide national and international companies with exceptional facilities, competitive rental packages and access to a top quality workforce,” she added.
“The BREEAM ratings for each of the buildings further emphasise the quality levels we are seeking to achieve with the development and enhance our belief that the office park will be seen as the ‘blueprint’ for projects of this stature in the future.”
The project is due for completion in March 2010.
