Our commitment to making embodied carbon savings where we can is exemplified by our work on Winnersh 820. Winnersh Triangle is a mixed business community between Reading and Wokingham in Berkshire, and a significant block in the park, Winnersh 820, was scheduled for demolition, to be replaced with offices. However, during the early stages of the project, and in order to respond to changing demands for high office content warehousing and workshop spaces, it was decided to reconfigure the existing building to provide an enhanced high office content warehouse.

Reusing 110.8 tonnes of primary steel for the frame and 4,180 tonnes of reinforced concrete for the foundations reduced costs and project length, while making embodied carbon savings equal to 894,300 kg of Co2. This is comparable to a staggering 369,545 single trips from Winnersh Triangle to London Waterloo on the train, the annual average emissions from 110 UK homes or 16,873,585 cups of white tea or coffee. To sequester this amount of carbon would require 14,787 tree seedlings to be grown for a decade.