The new headquarters building for Dobbies Garden Centres plc. Sustainable, low energy design

1. davidblaikiearchitect
dobbies headquarters, lasswade
The rapid expansion of Dobbies Garden Centre
PLC led to the requirement for a new headquarters
building. The brief was for an environmentally
responsible building of roughly 10,000sqft to
house 60 members of staff.
The building required to be able to be expanded
both into the roof space and to double its footprint
into the adjacent goods yard to the south.
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The solution was a timber framed courtyard
building concentrating cellular management
offices to the inside with open plan offices and
meeting rooms to the outside. All offices are within
5.5m of natural daylight. The lightweight timber
frame structure is highly insulated and heated by
cardboard (packing boxes returned as part of the
companies centralised distribution system) fired
boiler. High level opening clerestory windows
light the central circulation areas minimising the
need for artificial light and also providing natural
ground floor plan ventilation.
10 deanhaugh street, edinburgh, EH4 1LY t - 0131 332 1133 m- 07764 195480 e - studio@davidblaikiearchitect.co.uk w - www.davidblaikiearchitect.co.uk