Support the use of renewable technologies and carbon reduction at PortZED

The proposed PortZED development has been designed to achieve the highest possible standards of environmental design. The design brief from the outset was to create a development which achieves Level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes, and to encourage the wider use of renewable technologies within an urban environment.

The scheme will comprise of 67 residential apartments built over a mixture of commercial shops, offices, and support facilities, linked by a recreational landscaped deck, and arranged as a terrace of six lozenge shaped buildings.

The proposal responds to the seafront and portside location with the form and positioning of the six buildings being maximised to harvest the natural resources of the wind and sun to generate the developments total energy requirements. Wind power will be harnessed through an array of small helical wind turbines set between each of the six aerodynamically designed buildings. The buildings will also take advantage of their south facing position through the incorporation of PV and solar thermal arrays, integrated into the building facades.

Key to the PortZED development will be the Green Business Hub, which will nurture green start-up companies as well as developing established businesses already in the area, and will provide a focal point and information resource for local environmentally active organisations. This Green Business Hub will sit alongside the PortZED visitor centre, which will act as an information resource about the sustainable credentials of this pioneering development, and promoting local companies which will contribute to its success.

PortZED already has support from the CLG (Communities and Local Government agency), SEEDA and CABE.

The PortZED project will be an exemplar project – already accepted and part funded as a ‘demonstration project’, that can be considered by the city as a measure against which future mixed use schemes can be tested.

Careful attention will also be given to adaptation strategies that will allow the building to develop over its lifetime to provide optimum comfort and wellbeing for both residents and visitors. Subsequently the PortZED project has been awarded funding by the Technology Strategy Board to develop strategies to make the building future proof and for these methods to be applied to other similar coastal location buildings.

Our philosophy is simple – through eco innovation we can create the technological solutions necessary for a low-carbon economy whilst creating jobs and wealth in the process.

Find out more information about our petition and the campaign to support the PortZED planning application by logging onto the Brighton and Hove Planning Website.

For further information, please contact info@bohogreen.co.uk