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Baytree Dunstable

A logistics warehouse for Baytree Logistics Properties that was the world’s first WELL Building Standard pilot industrial scheme, an innovation in the design and delivery of logistics.
Size
266,944 sqft
Location
Dunstable, Bedfordshire
Status
Completed
Contractor
Designers
Chetwoods Architects
Client
Baytree Logistics Properties
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The development was designed with flexibility for future change, with technology enabled features and a focus on user health and wellbeing.

The office spaces provide a Grade A office environment. WELL™ principles and Chetwoods’ bespoke Design Drivers were applied to incorporate environmental and wellbeing design features throughout the scheme.

It features air source heat pumps for efficient office environment conditioning, enhanced use of recycled and recyclable materials, and prefabricated building elements. It includes solar photovoltaic panels for clean power production, electric vehicle charging stations, and low energy LED lighting with automatic movement and daylight controls that extends to external yard areas and doors.

The building was designed and procured via a full BIM model coordinated with 4Dtimeline video and AR and VR outputs to provide high-quality visualisations of alternative office environments for potential building users. A bespoke on-site ‘Tech Hub’ was used during construction to demonstrate the development's innovations and occupier benefits.

The Baytree Sensor Suite was installed as part of the base building specification to manage a healthy working environment while reducing operational and maintenance costs. Sensors monitor air and water quality, internal noise, lighting, humidity and temperature, occupancy and occupancy patterns. The system can be accessed remotely to adjust the office heating and comfort cooling, and de-energise local lighting for lower occupancy levels.

The building is set within a landscape environment where biophilic design principles promote relaxation, physical activity, and healthy eating. The attenuation pond has been turned into a ‘Well Plaza’: benches incorporate solar-powered charging points and aquatic marginal planting, a ‘Trim Trail’ provides an area for fitness activities, and the fire track has been designed to have a dual use as a running track.

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Project Highlights
  • World’s first WELL Building Standard pilot industrial scheme
  • Super airtight, insulated envelope
  • Environmetal and wellbeing design features throughout the scheme
  • Designed and procured via a full BIM model
  • Landscape environment applies biophilic design principles
  • Well Plaza and Trim Trail for employee wellbeing

A comment on the project

"The most sustainable warehouse in the UK in 2019."
Property Week