From 20,000 to 150,000 sq ft of 'Grade A' BREEAM Excellent office space and a 90,000 sq ft Carrier Neutral Tier 3+ Colocation Data Centre

The Portal Business Park is at the leading edge of a new wave of office developments that put sustainability at the heart of their design philosophy, offering immediate and lasting benefits to the occupier, the environment and the wider community.

In the case of the Portal Business Park these benefits are very clear cut: as an occupier you pay significantly less for heating and cooling the building with CO2 emissions reduced by thousands of tonnes per year.

But there are two other ways in which the Portal is a truly exceptional scheme.

FUTURE PERFECT

The buildings at the Portal Business Park will achieve the optimum synthesis of form and function, resulting in architecturally striking, perfectly proportioned buildings which dramatically enhance the space in which they sit and the superior working environment they provide – the very definition of iconic.

WEB MEETS WORLD

And then there is the on site data centre. The Portal data centre is a truly carrier neutral facility. It offers secure, low latency, high specification, Tier 3+ space with forward thinking, energy efficient high density rack capability. It will provide the central UK with its major IT and communications Internet Exchange Point. In fact, its size and excellent location will make it one of the most important data centres in the UK.

The clever use of the surplus heat from the data centre is key to the sustainability of the whole business park and by harnessing this, the offices achieve sustainability and BREEAM Excellent performance. The data centre also benefits from 24/7 guaranteed power supplies which in turn can be provided to essential services within the offices.

Sustainable development is a dynamic process which enables all people to realise their potential, and to improve their quality of life, in ways which simultaneously protect and enhance the Earth’s life support systems. Forum for the Future Annual Report 2000.

Overall, the recovered waste heat from The Data Centre has the potential to provide the surrounding area to The Portal Business Park with an opportunity for common heating saving up to 10,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum

Peter Walden, Director, Carbon Low Group Ltd.