PCKO achieves Gold and Silver again!

Banks Yard, achieved Gold Standard and Stone Rise achieved Silver Standard in this years Building for Life Awards.

'The assessors' view was that Banks Yard is an excellent scheme that offers both great living spaces and a high quality public realm.'
Building for Life

'The assessors' view was that Stone Rise meets the challenges of a very difficult site…The use of the £60K house type leads to very high performance standards…’
Building for Life

PCKO has increased their portfolio of projects achieving a Building for Life Standard Award and have a proven track record of delivering successful schemes that demonstrate compliance with Building for Life standards. PCKO provided pre-assessment services for both schemes including production and collation of evidence and submission materials.

Building for Life is a measure of how dwellings integrate with the urban and public realm including aspects of community, safety, legibility and access to facilities. Many of these aspects are not bolt on functions; they need to be included as core elements very early in the design and development process. PCKO can offer objective pre-assessment for all our residential projects, supported by our continued success and design expertise in this field.

Other PCKO schemes include Cala Domus, Newhall, Building for Life Gold Standard Award and Fishing Village, St. Mary’s Island, Building for Life Silver Standard Award.

Banks Yard for Octavia Housing

Banks Yard in Hounslow provides 10 affordable homes for rent, two of which are wheelchair accessible and 18 for shared-ownership, which are designed to Lifetime Homes Standards. Although they exceed minimum space requirements the homes were designed to be affordable to buy and affordable to run, with 10% of the renewable energy the homes use being produced onsite through solar water-heating. Heat recovery whole house ventilation and high performance timber framed external envelope help to achieve high environmental performance. The design produces a high quality of natural lighting within the homes through large windows and each home has its own private space, through either a garden or balcony.

Main contractor: Inspace Partnerships
Key consultants: Conisbee (Structural engineers), Bristow Johnson & Partners (Employer agent & cost consultant), Allen Pyke Associates (Landscape architects)

Read more: http://www.pcko.co.uk/projects_24.htm

Stone Rise for Countryside Consortium (including Countryside in Partnership and Hyde Housing Group)

Three house types were designed derived from the same generic core concept (living wall, flexible space, gallery zone), which can deliver differing internal and external characteristics. The concept can generate a variety of street frontages within an overall unifying rational discipline and with a flexibility that responds to orientation and site specific contexts from suburban to urban. The intention of our competition entry was to demonstrate that it is possible to deliver high quality housing at radically reduced cost involving off site manufacturing. While the Stone Rise site was too small to fully utilize volumetric prefabrication, houses and flats were constructed using a highly rationalised timber frame system, fabricated on site using an innovative micro-factory system of production.

Main contractor: Countryside Properties in Partnership
Key consultants: Brand Leonard (Structural Engineer), Waterstone Design (Building Services Engineer)

Read more: http://www.pcko.co.uk/projects_23.htm

For further information contact Peter or Andrew