Skipton Building Society Offices Completed

The Leeds office (BSCP) acted as Structural and Civil design consultants for the new 100,000ft2 offices and computer centre for Skipton Building Society.

Completed Skipton Building Society Offices

The building was designed to accommodate a sloping site on greenbelt land to suit the client’s need for a high quality sustainable building to appear unobtrusive yet be delivered on time, to budget and to incorporate environmentally agreeable items.  Sustainability was a major aspect of the Client’s brief relating to cost, value, operating costs and staff comfort.

 Items incorporated:

- Grey water harvesting.

- Solar roof panels to heat domestic hot water. 

- Biomass woodchip boilers. (25% of base load)

- Chilled beams.

- Photo voltaic cells in the Bris Soleil.

3D Visualisation of Entrance

The building services concept was designed around a displacement ventilation system supplied via a floor plenum and extracted at high level, using exposed concrete structural floor soffits to provide thermal mass cooling. The building is founded on natural boulder clay with an RC retaining wall to the north face due to being cut into the site hillside, thus minimising the building’s visual impact. Surface water on site was discharged into the adjoining beck with a restricted discharge rate of 5 litres/second/hectare.  This was achieved with the provision of large underground balancing tanks to accommodate a 1 in 100 year storm and climate change, as agreed with the Environment Agency.

Building roof water was directed to an underground harvesting tank for re-use in toilets and to further reduce the amount of surface water entering the beck.

 The developed solution was fully co-ordinated with the design team and client during the design period and cost options found this structural/architectural solution to be the most cost effective.

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For further information please contact Charlotte Johnson on 0161 491 4600
email: charlotte.johnson@ghalivigunn.com