Business Park project voted greenest building in Europe

A flagship build project by the Midas Group has been honoured with the title of the greenest building.

The £12M Filwood Green Business Park was named Eco Green Building of the Year at the Bristol Green Capital Awards which took place on 12 November.

Bristol has the status of being European Green Capital 2015, taking over the title from Copenhagen, with previous winners including Stockholm, Hamburg, Vitoria-Gasteiz and Nantes.

A total of 40,000sq ft of workshop and office space was created to provide a new home for small and medium sized businesses in the City.The building is the first commercial building in the south west to ever earn a BREEAM “outstanding” rating, being one of the highest scoring environmentally-friendly buildings in the whole of Europe.

The building produces 20% of its own energy using photovoltaics, A+ Rated materials and planted roofs externally, however its sustainable ethos runs even deeper. Designed with high performance building materials and on-site energy generation, the building achieves a 40% CO2 reduction, saving and estimated 46 tonnes of CO2 annually, the equivalent of 276 double decker buses.

Derek Quinn, Executive Director at Midas Construction, said: “As a Bristol-based company we are very proud to accept the Eco Green Building Award for Filwood. It’s quite something, and doubly special, to receive an environmental award like this in a City which is so widely acknowledged as being one of Europe’s most forward-thinking green cities”.

The build involved more than 500 people working on the site, which created training opportunities for local apprentices and employment of more than 300 local sub-contractors, with 20 staff working towards an NVQ qualification.

Mayor George Ferguson has already invested £2M in 189 sustainable projects through the Bristol 2015 Green Capital Grants Programme.

 

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