Peterborough charity seeks eco-office retrofit office space

Sustainability top priority for office space at Westgate Department Store

Article posted: 10 Jan 2011

Local firms in Cambridgeshire are being invited to take part in an initiative to turn 1,150 sq ft of office space in Peterborough into an ‘exciting, innovative and sustainable’ workplace.

Eco charity Peterborough Environment City Trust, together with the EcoInnovation Centre and Anglia Co-operative Society, is looking for help from local firms to retrofit the Cambridgeshire office space on the first and second floors of Westgate Department Store with the aim of creating a national example of sustainability.

PECT operations manager Rachel Huxley commented: “Our aim is to take the space and turn it into a best practice example of how an existing building can be retrofitted to make it environmentally-friendly. We want the best and most suitable environmental technologies to be part of the redevelopment.”

Lucy Robins, from Anglia Co-operative, said: “As a nationally important case study we’ll be looking to maintain a long-term ‘open door’ policy with all the technologies and products on display for visiting professionals, and to publish and distribute a Best Practice Report for national circulation.

“We’re keen to get as many local firms involved as possible.”

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