Development teams
We develop buildings in partnership with a team of specialists that includes architects, engineers, building contractors and numerous sub-contractors.
We work with our development teams to monitor and manage our impacts through an ISO:14001 certified Environmental Management System. We diverted 86% of development waste from landfill, making strong progress towards our target to send zero waste to landfill by 2012. Our developments are also 27% more energy efficient than current standards on average, as we work towards achieving planning consent for a zero carbon commercial building by 2015.
In partnership with our contractor at Regent’s Place, Bovis Lend Lease, we carried out an in-depth study of sustainability within our supply chain. This revealed that our independent audits of construction suppliers are working well, and that concrete and steel typically have the greatest environmental impacts of all our construction materials. It also identified opportunities to improve the sustainability of construction materials used by our suppliers and of our on-site working practices. Next year, we will update our Sustainability Brief which has been driving performance on all our major projects since 2004.
- BREEAM EXCELLENT ratings on all five of our new office developments over the last few years.
- 97% of fit-out waste recovered as well as 86% of construction waste, diverting 5,364 tonnes of waste from landfill.
- 60,000sq ft of green space created on our developments in central London, improving biodiversity.
- 0.26 reportable accidents per 100,000 hours worked on our developments, compared to 0.30 last year.
- ECOHOMES EXCELLENT and Very Good ratings at Regent’s Place.
- 23% recycled content in our new developments.
Supplier of the Year
Mace won our Supplier of the Year Award 2010.
They provided project management, construction management and cost consultancy services at Ropemaker Place, delivering this £150 million construction project on time and under budget.
£150m construction project
Completed on time and under budget
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“Ropemaker was delivered on time and under budget in May 2009, to a high quality of construction. Mace has continued to be a skilled and efficient project manager since completion, expertly coordinating occupier requests and multiple fit-outs.”
At Ropemaker Place
We commissioned two reports on the carbon emissions associated with the construction, operation and future demolition of the building.
The total carbon footprint, assuming a 60-year lifespan, is 196,873 tonnes of CO2e, equivalent to the amount of electricity needed to run the London Underground for four months.
If the national electricity grid decarbonises, as planned by the Government, Ropemaker Place’s total carbon footprint would decrease by 39%, resulting in the proportion related to materials and site construction activities increasing to 68% from 42%. This means our choice of building materials in the future will be even more important.
Embodied carbon in steel and concrete represented 16% of the total footprint
Ongoing building maintenance represented 15% of the total carbon footprint
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