Slough: The Porter Building to be ranked as one of UK's healthiest workplaces

The partnership between Landid and Brockton Capital has signed up to achieve WELL Building Standard certification for The Porter Building, putting the 120,000 sq ft development in Slough in line to be one of the first office buildings in the UK to attain the global rating when it completes later this year.

The WELL Building Standard is an international performance-based assessment methodology grounded in medical research that is exclusively focused on human health and well-being in the built environment.

Although a handful of major UK office developments currently under construction have registered for the rating, WELL certification is only achieved upon project completion and to date no building has attained WELL Core and Shell certification in the UK.

Designed by architect tp bennett, The Porter Building is set to complete in Q3, putting it in line to be one of the very the first UK office buildings to attain the rating.

Chris Hiatt, Landid director, said: “We are very excited to commit The Porter Building to achieving WELL Core and Shell certification, which is a measure of how healthy a building is for its occupants, and are hopeful that we will be one of the first UK office buildings - if not the first - to achieve certification when it completes later this year.

“The Porter Building is bringing an entirely new kind of workspace to Slough. It will offer a fresh and dynamic work environment that meets the growing demand for high quality, well connected office buildings for the next generation of occupiers in the Western Corridor. The workspace will positively impact on business performance, through staff retention and attraction, well-being and productivity and will meet the aspirations of the very best talent.”

David Blair, tp bennett director, said: “Working with the client Landid/Brockton, tp bennett’s aim was to embed the wellness concept into the base build. The design brings cutting edge Central London specifications into a Western Corridor office environment and offers the highest quality in building specifics, such as fresh air standards, daylighting, biophilic design and the position and use of work, thoroughfare and breakouts spaces.