Cadent Gas award green award for sustainable Coventry HQ

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Peter Davison

Cadent Gas' HQ in Coventry

Cadent Gas, the UK's largest gas distribution network, has been awarded a major title for its new HQ building in Coventry.

At the Midlands and Central England regional finals of the British Council for Offices Awards on Friday (May 19) Cadent Gas won the ESG award for its 100,000 sq ft purpose-built headquarters at Ansty Park.

The judges singled out this building for its impressive design which is focused on employee engagement and the health and wellbeing of occupants in a light-filled space.

Its extensive on-site amenities include a restaurant and gymnasium, mother and baby rooms, multi-faith areas, outdoor terracing and cycle storage.

The panel also praised efforts to reduce the build’s carbon footprint, with locally sourced materials and the use of the latest technology and energy-saving measures contributing to first-class BREEAM and EPC ratings.

The other winners were:

TJX Watford Campus, 73 Clarendon Rd, Watford (Corporate Workplace)
103 Colmore Row, Birmingham (Commercial Workplace)
Roku HQ, 2 Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge (Fit Out of Workplace)
Sycamore House, 2 Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage (Refurbished/Recycled Workplace)

Lee Jones, Partner at Quantem and Chair of the BCO Midlands and Central Judging Panel said: “The calibre of this year’s awards has pushed the boundaries of workplace design. The emphasis on carbon reduction, decrease of fossil fuel use and a true focus on the health and wellbeing of all who use workplaces has been outstanding.”

Rob van Zyl, Building Services Partner at Cundall and Chairman of the BCO Midlands and Central committee said: “These offices represent best practice in a post-pandemic world. Society has been forever changed, and with it the workplace of the future is emerging.

"These outstanding projects demonstrate what can be achieved by creative and dedicated teams who are delivering exceptional offices for the Midlands and Central England.”

Midlands and Central England winners will compete for the BCO National Awards on Tuesday, October 3.

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.