Guidance report: supermarket buildings

The third in the series of five guidance reports, modelled on the Asda food store in Stockton-on-Tees - has now been produced.

The key findings of the study include:

• A 35% reduction in regulated operational carbon emissions achievable without renewable energy technologies
• It is predicted that the building can achieve true zero carbon using a package of compatible energy efficiency measures and on-site low and zero carbon technologies, i.e. 330kW wind turbine, biogas-fired CCHP and a 3,500 m² array of photovoltaics. This is expensive however representing a 26.5% capital cost increase
• Lighting represents around half of the total operational carbon emissions for the base case building, therefore, efficient lighting and optimal rooflight design were key to achieving significant operational carbon reductions cost effectively
• The capital cost uplift of the base case supermarket is 0.24% to meet a BREEAM ‘Very Good rating; 1.76% to achieve an ‘Excellent’ rating and 10.1% to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating.

Available in PDF now.

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