1. First Revision, April 2015
Cheshire Oaks
Summary Guide
Biggest greenest M&S, built
using innovations to reduce
the impact on our planet.
2. 1. Electric car charging points
2. Cycle lane and 100 covered cycle stands
11. Hemclad wall panels
12. Glulam timber roof and timber 1st floor
structure
13. 100% recycled reflective roof
14. 80,000 ltr rainwater harvesting tank
15. Green walls
16. Permeable paving
17. Re-landscaped swale
18. 228 new trees
9. HFC free air handling units
10. Hydrocarbon refrigeration system
3. Biomass boiler
4. Natural insulation – earth mound
5. Brise soleil
6. North lights and energy efficiency lighting to
retail floor
7. LED lighting to car park and external areas
8. Displacement ventilation
Location:
M&S Cheshire Oaks, Longlooms Road,
Cheshire Oaks, Ellesmere Port,
The Wirral, CH65 9JN.
People
Marks & Spencer
Cheshire Oaks, Ellesmere Port
Biggest greenest M&S, built using
innovations to reduce the impact
on our planet.
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• Launch date August 2012
•Premier store carrying the
full product catalogue, MS’ second
largest store in the world
• Site area 525,192 sq ft, 209,068 sq ft
Gross internal area, 148,865 sq ft net sales
area
• Sustainable learning store, BREEAM
Excellent rated and MS’ most carbon
efficient
• Designed to be more resilient to climate
change through its materials, landscaping
and water strategy
• First retailer to use Hemclad® panels in
the external walls and to use 100% FSC
glulam timber in its roof structure
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3. • Green travel features including electric
charging points and 100 covered cycle stands.
• Community engagement was integral to the
build process with £5m being invested in a
highways scheme.
• Considerate Constructors score of 38/40.
• Sustainable signage to educate customers on
eco features.
• 100% of waste has been diverted from landfill
with 87.5% of all waste segregated on site.
• 54,000 tonnes of quality soils and clay from
the initial bulk excavation works was used in
projects such as capping a contaminated quarry
and developing a local Moto-X park.
• Resource sharing of left over materials and
packaging through community initiatives.
• Lime stabilising ground below the building and
car park helped reduce the quantity of concrete
required in the foundations by 25%.
• Operational energy was 42% lower and carbon
was 35% lower than a peer store.
• Maximised natural light via North lights and
clerestory glazing with fully dimmable lighting
to sales floor and integrated daylight control.
• Improved insulation and thermal mass by
partially sinking the building in the ground with
earth mounding around the perimeter.
• A biomass boiler plant supplies nearly three
quarters of Cheshire Oaks’ heating.
• Free cool air handling via earth ducts and
displacement ventilation.
• Cheshire oaks is the first retail store to use
Hemclad®, an innovative pre-fabricated wall
panel developed by Lime Technology.
• Use of social media as a new way of keeping
the local community updated on the project
throughout the build.
• Achieved the Wildlife Trust Biodiversity
Benchmark for our ongoing management of
the landscaping features at the store.
• Main refrigeration system is Hydrocarbon
which reduces the impact on global warming
compared with traditional HFCs.
• HFC free air handling units.
• Resilient features include the white reflective
roof, rainwater harvesting, displacement
ventilation, Hemclad® external wall panels.
• Solar shading (Brise Soleil) has been installed
to reduce energy costs. The high summer sun is
reflected and lower winter sun is allowed to pass
through, heating the store.
• The store is more resilient to flash flooding
thanks in part to its mature trees, green walls and
its sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS).
• 100% FSC-certified glulam timber is used in
the roof and first floor structural decking.
• 100% recycled aluminium roof, fermacell
drylining board and 40% recycled floor tiles.
• An 80,000 litre underground tank will collect
water to serve the green wall and all toilets
and displace a third of the store’s main water
demands.
• Waterless urinals, dual flush WCs, sensor taps.
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Cheshire Oaks Project Team
Developer/Contractor:
Simons Group Ltd
Architect:
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson
Building Services:
Sustainable Design Solutions Ltd (SDS)
Refrigeration consultants:
Oaksmere
Structural Civil Engineering:
AECOM
Project Manager:
David Evans Project Services Ltd.
Quantity Surveyor:
Gleeds
BREEAM Assessor:
AECOM Sustainable Dev. Group
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