The doors were opened to one of the country’s top ‘green’ offices at a special event to show how a typical 1960s London block has been turned into a sustainable workplace of the future.
Over two days, 160 facilities and property professionals - as well as business leaders - toured Morgan Lovell’s headquarters in a series of seminars to see how they can build sustainability into their interior office design projects.
Morgan Lovell’s pioneering transformation of its Soho site has seen the company ranked in the 2008 Sunday Times Green List - a record of the 50 top sustainable organisations in the UK.
Work at the Noel Street site has also achieved the highest BREEAM environmental assessment score in the UK to date. The project is one of just two of its kind in the country to achieve an “Excellent” rating from assessors.
Paul Kelly, head of marketing at Morgan Lovell, said: “Both days were a sell- out.
“People attending wanted to know how they can make their workplaces more sustainable and reap the associated social, economic and environmental benefits.
“By using our own headquarters as a real-life case study, visitors could see first-hand what can be achieved.”
Delegates at the seminar were able to investigate the effectiveness of the environmentally-friendly products used in the refurbishment and explore the costs and the payback times.
They also explored how to build sustainability into office design, significantly reduce future energy bills through sustainability; meet Government targets and get a high BREEAM rating as well as making the project carbon neutral.
Morgan Lovell has a step-by-step guide to creating a ‘green’ office interior
available free at http://www.morganlovell.com/sustainability.
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Notes to Editors
The seminars were held on May 14th and 16th.
Located in London, Birmingham and the Thames Valley, Morgan Lovell is the UK’s leading office interior design, fit out and refurbishment specialist. With its own teams of designers, surveyors and project managers, the company can design and deliver entire projects, with the benefit of just one point of contact. http://www.morganlovell.com
It is part of top five UK construction and regeneration group Morgan Sindall plc which operates through five specialist divisions of fit out, construction, infrastructure services, affordable housing and urban regeneration.
Morgan Lovell is a licensed BREEAM Offices Assessment Organisation. This means it is now licensed to measure the sustainability score of an office in order to identify ways companies can reduce high energy usage and waste, whilst increasing comfort and satisfaction for users of the building.
Press release written by Jane Shepherd, Shepherd PR Limited. Tel 01538 308685. Mobile 07985 129315
jane@shepherd-pr.com
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