Bootle, Merseyside

We were first commissioned by RLAM to review the site’s existing baseline environmental conditions to support the pre-application discussion with Sefton Council. Our environmental report provided a key summary of various technical environmental disciplines, including air quality, ecology, ground conditions, noise, sustainability/energy, utilities, greenhouse gas and climate change – as well as a minerals assessment.

We have since been able to employ a full interdisciplinary service offering, utilising our knowledge of the wider site conditions to work alongside the project team and other stakeholders to develop a full transport and mobility strategy, alongside sustainability, building services and acoustics.

Our building services engineers have been working to develop a CAT A Fit out across the site’s office space, installing air source heat pumps for heating and cooling and a Hybrid VRF 2-pipe heat recovery system. Sustainable LED lighting has been installed throughout, including controls, alongside an external lighting plan to ensure safe lighting for streetlights and access roads.

Connectivity and transport were a key driver for the site, with our transport team working to improve cycle connections and enable upgrades to public transport and buses. Collaboration with the local council was key to link in with their wider aspirations and ensure we were not just looking at the site in isolation. Phase one ensures access to the site is futureproofed, providing the early enabling works and allowing the council to enhance the site’s onwards connectivity in future.

We embraced and embedded the RLAM sustainability criteria throughout our work, acting as sustainability champions, to assist in coordinating the sustainability policy around the wider development. This included undertaking a whole life carbon assessment, adaptive thermal comfort, operational energy, circular economy and electric car charging works.

Atlantic Park is targeting BREEAM Excellent, alongside EPC A, and is designed to have minimal embodied and operational carbon impact.