PUBLIC SECTOR SUSTAINABILITY


SUSTAINABILITY IN ACTION O BREEAM EXCELLENT PRISON


ight from the start, designers at Pick Everard were given a clear brief by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ). The new prison development on a 50 acre brownfield site in South Staffordshire needed to meet government targets for public-funded sustainable development, be energy efficient, take account of whole life costs and achieve BREEAM Excellent. Pick Everard Partner David Nisbet outlines the approach taken by the design team, fulfilling the MOJ’s ambitions for a


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sustainable prison and achieving BREEAM Excellent.


The brief for the £150million


HMP Featherstone 2, now named HMP Oakwood, included seventeen buildings; three 480–place house blocks, a healthcare unit, a first night unit, a visits building, sports centre, training centre, kitchen plus ancillary and support buildings, all completely self contained within a secure boundary. Being such a large scheme, a sustainable approach had to embrace


many aspects of development, beginning at a macro level, looking from a site-wide perspective. A key and shared aim was reducing the impact of buildings in construction and through the construction process itself.


Careful choice of materials, life cycle


costing, rainwater harvesting, energy consumption and a construction programme planned and coordinated by the whole design team – all had an impact.


A large prison facility in continuous operation also presented designers with many opportunities for including interesting, forward-thinking features; an anaerobic digestion facility, an on-site waste sorting facility and the use of biomass power.


PREPARING THE GROUND Located on the site of an existing prison and wartime weapons factory, two localised ‘hot spots’ of ground contamination were identified in site investigations. To remove all the risks, one was capped, and the other remediated and filled.


PUBLIC SECTOR SUSTAINABILITY • VOLUME 2 ISSUE 5


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