Business rains cats and dogs

09 September, 2009

A £3.9 million contract for a new cattery at Battersea Dogs & Cats Home has been awarded to John Sisk & Son Ltd. The project, in London, will involved a highly sustainable 4-storey building with reception and waiting areas, meeting rooms and 83 pens with preparation areas and staff rooms. Sisk will also construct an extension to expand existing clinic facilities. The building has been designed by Charles Knowles, architects.

The curtain-walled building will have windows specifically sized and located for the cats, making the most of natural light.

Solar thermal and PV panels will provide hot water and up to 11 MWh of electricity a year. A ground-source borehole array will provide heat in the Winter and cooling in the Summer.

The building of this cattery follows other at sites at Brands Hatch and Old Windsor.

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