DEVELOPMENT FOCUS


Development Focus:


The newDogs TrustCentre


This issue, BB&D takes a look at a project from the Dogs Trust,McPhillips and InBuilt, who have worked together on a new centre for the charity


The newly completed Dogs Trust re-homing centre in Shrewsbury is the result of months of collaborative work between Inbuilt, McPhillips, architect Napier & Co and the Dogs Trust.


but is also meeting the growing demand for sustainable buildings across all branches of the commercial development sector.


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THE VISION: Inbuilt worked closely with the Dogs Trust to design the centre buildings to the highest possible levels of sustainability in order to achieve the BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ accreditation. Work is now progressing to achieve BREEAMaccreditation on the post construction stage.


THE SITE: The Dogs Trust re-homing kennels are a noisy place and staff at the centre need to continue to work without excessive noise levels, so the site in Shrewsbury was designed to handle this need.


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he new Re-homing Centre is not only solving excessive noise problems,


CONSULTATION: Rachel Shore, senior sustainable design consultant at Inbuilt, who has been working closely with Dogs Trust and the design team throughout the project said: “A key factor in the success of Dogs Trust Shrewsbury was the collaboration of the design team and the willingness to seek solutions to any issues. As part of our soft landings service we carried out risk review workshops during design and


construction. These workshops helped to highlight any potential risks to achieving Dogs Trust’s operational targets and as a team, mitigation strategies were developed to ensure the risks were avoided”. Consultation with the local


council was carried out in order to keep stakeholders informed of progress and what the finished centre would encompass both during build and once completed.


CONSTRUCTION: Construction has been very successful throughout the development. The air tightness value achieved at the centre is 2.5m3


/hr/m2 /hr/m2 at 50Pa whilst the


current Building Regulations specifies a minimum of 10m3


. Achieving this level


of air tightness was a considerable challenge given that the centre has dog flaps running along one wing! This low air tightness value was


Staff needed to be unaffected by noise fromthe dogs’ kennels, so


soundproofing was a large part of the development’s objectives


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