SEROC Godstone Design

Working across RIBA3-7, Pick Everard’s sustainability team provided a range of services on the refurbishment, extension and landscape redesign of the National Highways SEROC Godstone building in Surrey.

Collaborating with National Highways, Pick Everard engineers, Dowen Farmer Architects and Land Use Architects, our sustainability team conducted detailed thermal modelling, BREEAM alignment, and whole life cycle assessments.

We also worked with the client to commission the preparation of an ‘enhanced sustainability performance’ study, including a circular economy study of opportunities which explored work to recover and reuse arisings from the demolition of a significant building at site, alongside a detailed evaluation of the potential to incorporate rainwater harvesting.

The outcomes of our work at RIBA4 included: establishing opportunities to incorporate CLT structures, additional PV cells,and augmenting the site with car ports. Our work also identified opportunities to recover and reuse on site deconstructedsteel roof structures, RSJs, and rolled shutter doors; concrete, bricks and timber were also identified for recycling andredeployment at site. The WLCA prepared showed that through the reuse of demolition materials nearly 50% (26tCO2e)of the carbon impact in the landscape could be saved.