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£1m revamp for Ayrshire snow centre
A centre for snow sports has undergone a £1m redevelopment project to offer two new ski slopes. Newmilns Snow & Sports Complex, a
registered charity and social enterprise community organisation in Ayrshire, has
New extension for Cheltenham museum
The new extension to Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum has officially opened under its new name, The Wilson Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. Located in the heart of Cheltenham, the building offers 1,250sq m of additional gallery space and ancillary facilities, including dedicated education and outreach spaces, an open archive, café and shop. The extension has been designed by Berman Guedes Stretton and its galleries have been designed as flexible spaces capable of exhibiting the museum’s collection of Arts and Crafts Movement work, interactive shows for families, and a rolling programme of temporary exhibitions from national and international touring arts organisations.
The building is naturally ventilated with low energy LED lighting, thermal mass and
locally sourced materials. It is highly insulated with high performance glazing arranged behind a brise soleil, providing passive solar shading and controlling heat gain, while maximising filtered natural light within the galleries and circulation spaces.
transformed its original slope into two new slopes catering for beginners to more advanced skiers. The slopes measure 32m and 100m
long and have two lengths of bristles to facilitate downhill skiing and manoeuvres to cater for skiers and snowboarders. A new table top jump area has also been created. Contractor Barr Construction took
seven months to complete the project, which received funding from a variety of sources including sportscotland, Landfill Communities Fund, the Scottish Rural Development Programme, Social Investment Scotland and East Ayrshire Council.
Water saving award for Whitbread
Whitbread has become the first hospitality company to achieve the Carbon Trust Water Standard. The standard is awarded to businesses
that are able to demonstrate that they have a robust approach to water measurement and management, and achieve year on year reductions in use. Whitbread has installed a variety of water saving technologies across its hotels and restaurants including replacing all shower heads in Premier Inn hotels with aerated low-flow versions, introducing low flush toilet cisterns and taps across its hotel and
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restaurant estate as well as installing grey water and rainwater recycling technologies in new developments. It has also invested in real time water
metering technology in its hotels and restaurants to model water consumption at individual sites and identify leaks early. The company aims to achieve a 25 per
cent reduction in water use by 2017 (from a 2009 baseline) across its hotel and restaurant estate. The target was recently revised upwards after the business achieved its original goal of a 15 per cent saving four years early.
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