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Design
“Sustainability will be the key objective of our designs. We will achieve excellence in life-cycle design and exceed our customer expectations by delivering more cost-effective sustainable solutions”.
Sustainable design seeks to reduce negative impacts on the environment, and the health and comfort of building occupants, thereby improving building performance.
Carillion is committed to incorporating principles of sustainable design and energy efficiency into its building projects. The result is an optimal balance of cost, environmental, societal and human benefits while meeting the mission and function of the intended facility. It is Carillion’s intent that sustainable design will be integrated as seamlessly as possible into the existing design and construction process.
The main area where the sustainability of construction can be improved is in thinking carefully about the integrated design of the whole project. Every element of a construction project has an effect on every other.
The sustainable design of a project must consider all the relevant elements that go into the location, orientation, structure, systems, construction, use and eventual demolition of the project and also how each decision at each stage will affect all of the others.
Therefore, we recognise that to help improve the sustainability of our projects we need to adopt the principles of sustainability from the first stages of design.
Some examples where we have taken a sustainability approach in design include:
• All our hospital projects have achieved “Excellent” ratings above 70% in their NEAT Assessments (NHS Environmental Assessment Tool);
• The staff car park at the Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital was designed to help reduce the risks of localised flooding and water pollution by utilising permeable pavement to drain and store surface water; and
• BRE (Building Research Environment) report for the DTI benchmarking our Great Western Hospital, Swindon project against sustainability indicators.
TPS Consult – our design company, provides comprehensive planning, engineering and architectural design and construction services to a wide client base. TPS encourage their project design teams to address life-cycle costs, buildability in terms designing to module sizes, to identify re-use and recycling opportunities and to minimise waste to landfill. TPS encourage their designers to address embedded energy in their choice of building materials and encourage clients and their designers to address the issues at the earliest possible stages to minimising energy in use.
See the TPS Consult website for sustainability in Design.
See our Design case records:
• Sustainable Strawbale classroom design day at the Royal Parks*
• Carillion Roads Maintenance help build an activity area for St. Johns School
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