STEPHEN GEORGE & PARTNERS ASSIST IN ENDORSING SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS

Stephen George & Partners have been working with the GreenSpec website as part of the new PASS assessment and endorsement system for sustainable building materials.

GreenSpec is one of the UK’s foremost sources of information relating to sustainable design and the specification of environmentally friendly building materials. PASS evaluates and endorses building products, materials, equipment and systems featuring ‘green’ characteristics.

Stephen George & Partners are contributing to the PASS process by undertaking technical assessments of submitted products. We have prepared a series of questions which we use to examine the practical aspects of the product before writing a short report encompassing our conclusions. This report then goes towards the final PASS endorsement along with a sustainability assessment prepared by GreenSpec themselves.

Stephen George & Partners were asked to undertake this task due to our award-winning experience in researching and specifying sustainable building materials.

The GreenSpec PASS website can be found here.

The main GreenSpec website can be found here.

THINKING INSIDE THE BOX AT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH LIBRARY

Stephen George & Partners are proud to announce that the Department of Health Library resource area is now complete.

As part of the bigger plan to reorganise Quarry House in Leeds with our client Telereal Trillium, Stephen George & Partners have designed the newly-completed library resource and open learning area in what is the largest government building outside London.

The Department of Health needed a new home for its internal technical library along with an opening learning area and space for management. The only available space we had within Quarry House was in a five storey atrium attached to one of the landscaped courtyards. This semi-external area experiences significant heat loss through the single-glazed enclosure and was not originally intended to be used as an occupied workspace.

To combat this, we proposed a secondary ‘pod’ within the atrium. Constructed mainly with glass, the new enclosure allows daylight to reach the internal office areas both within and next to the atrium.

This photograph was taken by Jon Knight of Nifes Consulting Group.

Find out more by reading the full story on our website here.