🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Cadworks

Much-needed green

Cadworks is Glasgow’s first net zero carbon office, and one of the few Grade A developments. It offers much-needed high-quality green workspace in the Scottish city.

📍Location

Glasgow, Scotland

🏢Building Details

• Opened December 2021

• 10-storey, 94,500 sq. ft. – £30m development

• Awarded WiredScore Platinum + NODE enabled for hyper-connectivity

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Contractor

• Basil Demeroutis – Managing Partner at FORE Partnership (certified B Corp)

• Aurélien Collignon – Partner at FORE Partnership

• Giles Edwards – Associate Director at FORE Partnership

• Alan Johansen – Regional Director at Bowmer & Kirkland

✍️Architects & Engineers

• Ross Blair – Project Director at Cooper Cromar

• Michael Gibbons – Mechanical Project Manager at JGM

• David Bell – Director at Glasgow City Plumbers

• Duncan Hutton – Ironmonger at Aspex

🌱Sustainability

• BREEAM Excellent + EPC A

• Flexible ‘shell & floor’ specifications: choose your own finishes and specific layout, minimising fit out wastage

• 100% green electric – with 180 smart meters to track energy, power, and water

• Regenerative braking lifts: convert kinetic potential energy to electrical energy when descending

• 75% of building suppliers from local area – with recycled glass, steel, wood, and concrete

🥦 Wellbeing

• WELL Silver = occupant health and wellness at heart of design

• AirRated Gold = exceptional internal air quality

• Scotland’s first cycle-in access ramp – completed with 119 bike stations, 138 lockers, and even airing units + ironing stations

• Includes its own fleet of electric Swifty Scooters

• Scotland’s largest living green wall + intensive green roof with sedum bio covering

🎈Bonus feature

It’s the first commercial building in Scotland to use Airlite paint – a 100% natural, photocatalytic paint technology that neutralises greenhouse gases + kills viruses. The amount used has the same air purification power of over 3 acres of forest. Beats a satin finish.

🔗 Check it out https://www.cadworksglasgow.com/