Sustainability
1000 Hillswood Park office development is located in the public park of Homewood park in Chertsey, surrounded by beautiful greenery and wildlife. The three-story office refurbishment is provided with a semi-exposed ceiling solution with services above the rafts. The main entrance welcomes you into a triple height reception with soft seating and a café/reception space. As part of the refurbishment, a new cycle store and pergola for functions have been provided externally to the building.
Sustainability is high on the Clients’ agenda and the design at 1000 Hillswood Park reflects this. Services consist of air source heat pumps to provide comfortable cooling and heating along with heat recovery air handling units to deliver fresh air to the office areas. Photovoltaic panels reduce the dependency on the electrical grid with electric car charging facilities to meet future requirements.
1000 Hillswood Park targets BREEAM ‘Excellent’, EPC target of ‘A’ and a NABERS UK Design Reviewed Target Rating of 5.0 Stars. The up front Embodied Carbon of the development is also being assessed.
Building 5 has been shortlisted for the BCO regional awards!
The completed site now comprises four detached industrial warehouse units ranging from 14,000sq ft to 36,000sq ft, all with naturally ventilated and heated offices. The two larger units each have an 8 person MRL passenger lift, while the smaller units have been provided with platform lifts. The warehouse area was designed as a shell for future fit-out with capped off utility services.
The building is provided with natural ventilation and LTHW heating to the showroom and office areas, plus the toilets which also receive hot water from the same boiler installation.
The project involved the refurbishment and extension of the existing building to deliver over 260,000sq ft of office space, achieving BREEAM ‘Outstanding’.
The Minerva House redevelopment works will include the partial demolition of the existing building and extension comprising of additional upper floors and a new lower ground floor.