British Horse Society HQ wins BOC Award

Kenilworth offices recognised for innovation and sustainability

Article posted: 01 Jun 2011

The winners in the Midlands and East Anglia BCO Regional Awards were announced last week at a lunch in Birmingham Town Hall attended by 300 leading property professionals.

Winning the award for Best Project up to 2,000m² was The British Horse Soceity for their headquarter offices in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. The Abbey Park offices which were officially opened in February by HRH The Princess Royal, received the award for the innovative, comfortable and sustainable building which replaced their old and outdated premises.

The new building provides high-quality accommodation for 85 staff, with additional meeting and conference facilities for visitors. It is a stunning new home for the UK’s largest and most influential equestrian body and provides a superb base from which staff are able to represent the interests of the 4.3 million people in the UK who ride or drive horse-drawn vehicles, particularly in the run up to next year’s Olympic Games.

The building, which sits in a Grade 2 listed deer park in Stareton, Warwickshire, comprises 22,500 sq ft of modern offices within the green belt. It is circular in shape, designed to fit around a fine 200-year-old oak tree which stands as its centrepiece. Great lengths were taken during construction to protect the many valuable trees on the site, not just by fencing off individual trees to prevent workers and machinery from getting too close, but also by hand-digging the foundations where necessary to avoid damaging root systems.

Other awards went to offices in Coventry, Birmingham, Northampton, Grantham and Loughborough.

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Posted by Sara