The Low Carbon Workplace is a partnership between the Carbon Trust, Stanhope and fund manager Threadneedle to design, build and manage contemporary offices for companies committed to energy-efficient operation. It acquires property to modernise into quality office space that is low carbon when in use.
Willmott Dixon has been chosen for a 拢10m contract to refit 63,000 sq ft of office space over five storeys at Grove House, 27 Hammersmith Grove in Hammersmith, including new lifts, roof refurbishment, replacing M&E services and creating a new glazed atrium within the existing courtyard.
The contractor will refurbish the accommodation to a CAT A level, working with Bennett Architects, Akera Engineers and Arup. Completion will be in 2013 and it is intended that work to create a super insulated, highly modernised building with reduced use of heating and electricity will lower energy usage by as much as 50% at high utilisation levels.
Elsewhere in London, Willmott Dixon is already working on the construction of the UK鈥檚 largest Passivhaus residential project, in Camden, the first zero carbon 鈥榠n use鈥� school, in Islington, and London鈥檚 first large housing development to reach Code for Sustainable Homes level six, in Staines Road, Hounslow.
Jonathan Payne, commercial sector director, said: "We are building up a solid track record as a company commercial clients can come to for their projects, especially in the field of creating better energy efficiency."
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