We are pleased to announce that the GWPA scheme at Neville’s Cross, Durham (for ECO RES / County Properties) has secured a post construction BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ certification for the 274 rooms. The scheme opened to students in September 2018 and is currently circa 80% let. This project is the sixth consecutive GWPA student residential schemeRead More
We are pleased to announce Duresme Court has been shortlisted for an RICS award. Over 40 of the North East’s top, community-led built projects will battle it out to be named the best in the region. The judges noted on a recent site visit that ‘they appreciated the challenges of the site location and wereRead More
We are pleased to announce that the GWPA scheme at Neville’s Cross, Durham (for ECO RES/ County Properties) has secured a design stage BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ certification for the 274 rooms to be completed for summer 2018 occupation. Works are progressing on the five accommodation blocks, with the marketing suite now complete and close out ofRead More
We are currently hosting Sadaf Fatima (far right), from the Alexander Humboldt Foundation in Germany, during a month’s internship. Sadaf, a current German Chancellor Fellow 2014-2015, has recently spent several months’ at the Passivhaus Institute in Darmstadt, Germany and at a Passivhaus project on Tenerife, Spain. She is working with several members of staff fromRead More
We are delighted to announce that our Birley Fields Student Accommodation scheme at Manchester Metropolitan University has achieved a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating at design stage. This impressive accomplishment is achieved by less that 1% of new buildings in the UK. The 967 bedrooms are provided in both Townhouse Units and Cluster Flat accommodation that areRead More
We are proud to announce as Executive Architects in collaboration with Heatherwick Studio, that the Bombay Sapphire Distillery officially opened to the public this week. Allowing everyone to explore Laverstoke Mill as a state-of-art gin distillery and world class visitor experience. The transformation of this historic site involved the restoration of 23 existing buildings that sitRead More
The Bombay Sapphire Gin Distillery at Laverstoke Mill in Hampshire has been awarded the highly prestigious BREEAM 2014 Award for Industrial Design at a ceremony held during the Ecobuild Conference at the London ExCel Centre on 04 March 2014. The project which is the first distillery and also the first refurbishment to achieve an ‘Outstanding’Read More
BRE have announced that our Bombay Sapphire Distillery Process buildings have been shortlisted for a BREEAM 2014 Award. BREEAM Awards recognise the most sustainable schemes built across the UK each year and GWP Architecture have been previously recognised as BREEAM Award winners in 2008, 2010 and 2012, our nomination in 2014 reinforces our position asRead More
GWP Director and current BREEAM Assessor of the year, Barry Rankin, was recently invited by BRE to hold individual consultation on the BREEAM Assessment method, including development of BREEAM 2014 New Construction criteria as well as presenting to the wider BREEAM team of consultants, technicians and support staff on the challenges of undertaking BREEAM AssessmentsRead More
The Bombay Sapphire Gin Distillery at Laverstoke Mill in Hampshire is the first distillery and also the first refurbishment to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ BREEAM design-stage accreditation. The distillery process buildings designed by GWP Architecture have been awarded an impressive score of 86.81%, the second highest score for an industrial building by BREEAM. Martin Townsend DirectorRead More