British Land’s 1 Broadgate, EC2, L&G Real Assets’ Ralli Quays in Salford, Greater Manchester, and Royal London Asset Management’s Statesman House in Maidenhead, Berkshire, are among 11 UK office developments that are pioneering sustainable design.
The assets form part of the Better Buildings Partnership’s Design for Performance initiative.
The Design for Performance pioneers – British Land, the Crown Estate, Derwent London, Great Portland Estates, Grosvenor Britain & Ireland, Landsec, Legal & General, Lendlease, Nuveen Real Estate, Royal London Asset Management and Stanhope – have all submitted at least one building to the project, which seeks to close the performance gap between how buildings are designed to perform, and how they actually perform.
The industry-backed project aims to provides an approach, based on measurable performance outcomes, to ensure new office developments deliver on their design intent. This will culminate in the verified performance and rating of the building. Plans to develop the rating system are being worked up with NABERS in Australia, which has a track record of driving energy performance improvement.
Tim Coffin, responsible property investment manager at RLAM said that becoming a Design for Performance pioneer aligned with RLAM wider net-zero-carbon ambitions and would allow it to contribute from the beginning with the development of the rating scheme.
The 11 assets, which span some 3m sq ft of office space, are scheduled to complete between 2022 and 2025.
Click here to see a full list of the pioneer projects.
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