Vauxhall Car Showroom, Vantage Park
As part of a larger redevelopment of a former goods yard off Phoenix Way constructed in early 2000’s to stimulate generation in the area, a purposed built car showroom was constructed for Vauxhall cars.
As part of the planning process, Vauxhall were committed to delivering a Travel Plan to encourage sustainable amongst its staff and visitors. Encon Associates carried out a baseline travel pattern survey and collated the results to inform the targets and measures to be included in the Travel Plan.
The Results
The document was submitted to Coventry City Council and ultimately approved to enable Vauxhall to occupy the building on time and ensure they continue to meet their obligations to encouraging sustainable transport.
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Client Vauxhall Car Showroom
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Location Coventry
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Services
Contribution to Planning consent
Travel Plan approved by Coventry City Council to discharge planning condition and enable the project to proceed
Key Environmental Facts
Vauxhall committed to reducing car usage by their staff over 5 years
- 10-15% reduction in car use from a baseline of 66%
- Increase public transport use from 16% baseline to 25%
- Promote cycling amongst staff to 10% from 4.5% baseline
- Encourage more staff to walk to work to 15% from a baseline of 4.5%
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Encon Associates were employed by ourselves as BREEAM Assessor and Approved Professional on 3 contracts running concurrently in Sheffield. At all times through the project they were able to provide clear detailed advice on requirements to ourselves and our supply chain, and were able to offer additional services where required (including compiling the Tenant Green Guide Specification).
The use of the IES TaP for BREEAM portal has proved a useful tool in tracking the BREEAM process, providing us as a main contractor a simple and user friendly way to co-ordinate the BREEAM evidence requirements with the designers and our supply chain.
The team have promptly assessed evidence when received and provided detailed feedback to ensure any compliance issues were understood – we would have no hesitation in employing Encon Associates on our future BREEAM schemes.
