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.

BCIA welcomes tougher commercial building energy standards but calls for greater ambition across the wider sector

The Building Controls Industry Association (BCIA) has welcomed the government’s confirmation that privately rented non-domestic buildings over 1,000 square metres in England and Wales will be expected to achieve a minimum EPC B rating by 2031, describing the move as an important step forward in improving the energy performance of the UK’s commercial building stock.

GOLDBECK commits to three-year schools partnership to inspire Cardiff’s future construction talent

GOLDBECK has launched a new long-term education initiative in Cardiff, committing to support three local primary schools as part of a programme designed to introduce young children to enterprise, careers and the wider world of construction.

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