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The Co-operative Group Headquarters

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BAM designed and built an extremely sustainable new headquarters for the Co-operative in Manchester. The building achieved a BREEAM Outstanding rating with the highest score ever attained.

The 16-storey building contains 325,000 sq ft of open plan office space and a large central atrium. Two basement floors include underground car parking, auditorium and fitness facilities.

The internal layout allows flexible use of the space and state-of-the-art technology.

An integrated energy system promotes renewable energy. CHP units can run on pure plant oil harvested and refined from Co-operative farms. A sustainable drainage system stores and recycles water as needed.

BAM also created four and a half acres of public open space.

We worked with the client and community groups to leave a lasting legacy in Manchester.

This included taking more than 500 local people on site visits, helping more than 1,000 local students with their curriculum, and recruiting 32 apprentices.

More than half the workforce came from Greater Manchester, with 22 local unemployed people found work on the scheme.

We awarded more than 100 contracts to firms in the region and donated more than £30,000 to charity.

The project was completed in December 2012.
 



Testimonial

  • 'We selected BAM, because we believe that BAM’s ethical values align perfectly with our own. Where possible, they employ local workers and use local workers and use local materials. Another major advantage is that BAM has gained experience across Europe with this type of building'.
    Peter Cookson, Programme Director, Co-operative Group Head Office

Features

  • 16-storey modern office block
  • Integrated energy system
  • Significant community engagement

Innovation and value adding

  • An on-site combined heat and power (CHP) plant, fuelled by plant-oil grown by the Co-operative Farms, providing the majority of the energy requirement for the new building
  • Low energy IT equipment and systems
  • Combined used water and rain water recycling
  • Low water consumption appliances
  • High efficiency lifts
  • Extensive Heat Recovery & Free Cooling applications, such as CHP Flues, Cooling Towers, Earth Duct
  • Cooling & Heating transfer, Fully Automated Lighting

 

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Customer

The Co-operative Head Office

Architect

3D Reid

Project manager

Gardiner & Theobald

Quantity surveyor

Gardiner & Theobald

Structural engineer

Buro Happold

M&E Services engineer

Buro Happold

Form of contract

Design and Build