The benchmark in sustainable industrial design

This advanced mail centre set new environmental and performance standards for all future mail centre developments, and indeed for similar property types in this sector.

We collaborated with Royal Mail’s operation and automation teams to ensure the design would be operationally efficient and meet the Group’s future processing requirements. We also set out to create what is one of the most energy efficient properties in Royal Mail’s portfolio.

It integrates a host of sustainable measures to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions during construction and in use, such as Solarwall, biomass boilers, rainwater harvesting, and a solar thermal hot water system.

It achieved a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ Rating and won the Green Apple Award for the Built Environment in 2010.