Bardsley Construction - A Royal visit for Britain's greenest
business centre
Bardsley Construction has completed
its 97th consecutive project on-time and secured a Royal
visit from the Queen to open what has been heralded
Britain’s greenest business centre.
The Queen opened the new £5m state-of-the-art Media
Centre in Huddersfield in a high profile boost for
eco-friendly building design and construction.
Project-managed and built by Manchester-based Bardsley
Construction, the centre’s new building makes it
Britain’s most environmentally friendly business centre
and the first of its size to feature a `double skin
frame’ and a `solar chimney’, to create an eco-friendly
cooling and heating system.
The Media Centre used 260 wagon loads of concrete, 72
tonnes of steel, 1,900 square metres of raised flooring
and 1,200 square metres of aluminium cladding over a 55
week build programme. The finished centre provides 1,500
square meters of office space and 52 workspaces for West
Yorkshire’s creative industries, doubling the size of
the town’s already thriving media centre cluster to 600.
Funded by Kirklees Council with supporting funds from
regional development agency Yorkshire Forward and the
European Regional Development Fund, Bardsley
Construction won the contract via a competitive tender.
The team worked alongside building designer Ash Sakula
and Bolton-based architects Bradshaw Gass and Hope.
Wayne Bardsley, chairman of Bardsley Construction
comments: “The success of this building and our ability
to complete the project on-time, is testament to the
strong working relationship we’ve established with
Kirklees Council.
“We’re delighted to see this project culminate in such a
high profile and truly unique building and firmly
believe we’ve set an environmental benchmark for office
space in the UK.”
The Queen was welcomed to The Media Centre by its chief
executive, Teo Greenstreet. He comments: “We said The
Media Centre was a landmark building and it certainly
was a landmark day for everyone involved.”
The Media Centre has been short-listed for a West
Yorkshire Built in Quality Award, in the category of
sustainability.
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