Shropshire construction company scoops world’s foremost sustainable building award
A world beating project by a Shropshire construction company to build one of the most eco friendly buildings in the whole world has won a top award.
The Dogs Trust Shrewsbury Rehoming Centre at Roden is the only building in the world to have achieved the highest “outstanding” rating in the BREEAM sustainable building rating system’s Bespoke category which included the highest post construction score ever awarded under the world leading assessment system.
McPhillips (Wellington) Ltd, of Hortonwood, Telford, achieved 100 per cent of the available credits for Management, Energy and Water Use on the project. The final BREEAM score of 94.44 per cent puts the centre firmly in the top echelon of the world's most sustainable buildings.
Peter McPhillips, Joint Managing Director of McPhillips said: “This really is a worldbeating award for our company. We are all very proud to have worked on the Dogs Trust project but to have achieved such an accolade is proof of the great talent running right through our organisation.
“We work on a wide range of projects in Shropshire and across the UK. We know we produce quality construction and civil engineering projects but to receive such a top award shows to everyone just what we are capable of.”
He added that the company was always actively pursuing local authority and government building contracts within Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire and the West Midlands.
BREEAM is the world's foremost environmental assessment method and sets the standard for best practice in sustainable building design, construction and operation.
The cutting edge £5.25 million eco-friendly re-development of the existing Canine Rehoming Centre for the Dogs Trust was designed for sustainability from the ground-up. Innovative features, such as super insulation from recycled paper, electricity generated from solar photovoltaic panels, a Biomass boiler, water from rainwater recycling and natural vegetation in the form of grass and wildflowers on the roof for added insulation, have reduced energy consumption by 70 per cent over a traditional rehoming facility.
The scheme was such a success that McPhillips has built another Rehoming Centre in Loughborough.
Established in Telford in 1963 by the father of now Joint Managing Directors Peter and Nicholas McPhillips, the company employs 230 local people working across the Midlands region providing a fully integrated civil engineering and building capability.
