INFORM Built Environment
SHOWCASE
This is the Musuem of
Liverpool – the largest newly-
built national museum built in
the UK for more than a hundred
years. And it will be powered
using advanced renewable and
energy efficient technologies,
supplied by ENER-G.
The £72M building will not
only house artefacts document-
ing the history of the city, but it
will also have an advanced com-
bined heat and power system,
guaranteeing annual energy
savings of more than £500,000.
The ‘trigeneration’ technolo-
gy, which creates highly efficient
heat, electricity and cooling, will
also reduce carbon emissions
by 884 tonnes each year.
The installation will be com-
pleted by this spring ahead of
the museum’s opening in 2011.
The CHP system will provide
the lead power supply with the
National Grid providing the
back up, if required.
PERFORMANCE BEST PRACTICE
Big development projects in
London are going well beyond
Whitbread plans new green hotel
the energy efficiency measures
required of them by building Leisure chain Whitbread has
regulations. announced details of a second
A study of planning applica- green hotel and its first low-car-
tions referred to the Mayor’s bon restaurant.
office shows that developers The group said that its planned
are taking significant steps to Burgess Hill Premier Inn, in West
making the capital’s built envi- Sussex, will be the “latest evolu-
ronment more sustainable. tion in environmentally-friendly
The report, carried out by the budget hotels”.
Greater London Authority and The new building follows
London South Bank Whitbread’s green hotel pilot in
University, shows that the Tamworth, Staffordshire, which
London Plan has been an effec- began in 2008, and culminated in
tive tool in encouraging devel- what the firm says was the UK’s
opers to consider carbon. first green budget hotel.
Figures from the report sug- The planned 60-bedroom
gest that in 2006 developments Burgess Hill hotel is due to open The Burgess Hill Premier Inn aims to deliver 70% carbon and 60% water savings
had cut emissions by 29% in autumn this year, and will
above what is required by regu- adopt the best-performing green high-efficiency thermal insulation, mental features and advanced
lations, and that that figure has technologies trialled in Tamworth low-flow showerheads, heat- construction methods will allow
now risen to 34% by the middle to deliver 70% carbon and 60% recovery, automated light controls us to achieve truly impressive
of 2009. water savings. and sun pipes for light. results in terms of cutting carbon
City Hall will use the report to Next to the hotel, Whitbread The hotel and restaurant will and conserving water.
support its proposed tougher plans to open its first low-carbon also be built using timber frame “Our low-carbon Beefeater
standards for 2010-13 included restaurant, a 220-cover Beefeater construction methods from sus- restaurant is another first for
in the Mayor’s draft London open grill restaurant. tainably sourced wood. Whitbread and brings us another
Plan, which sets increased tar- The site will include ground- Whitbread chief executive, Alan step closer to achieving a 26%
gets for carbon reductions of source heat pumps, rainwater har- Parker, said: “Burgess Hill’s clever reduction in carbon emissions
44% for new developments vesting and grey water recycling, combination of hi-tech environ- by 2020.”
between 2010-2013.
IN FACT 94 GAS-FIRED CHP SYSTEMS WERE INSTALLED IN BUILDINGS IN LONDON LAST YEAR – UP FROM 34 IN 2007
12 February 2010 ❘ Sustainable Business
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