Defence
PAC made sustainability a key requirement in its negotiations prior to contract award. Aspire has embraced this requirement. As a result a large part of the MOD estate, accommodating 20% of the British Army, is to be built, maintained and serviced to very high sustainability standards.
Many of the Allenby/Connaught sites are located adjacent to designated ecologically-sensitive areas, areas of outstanding natural beauty or within regions of archaeological significance, such as the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. Therefore sustainability was a key criterion during tender evaluation and throughout negotiations and is now embedded in the heart of the project.
The project has received an independent endorsement of its approach to sustainability, winning two awards at the 2007 Building Magazine Sustainability Awards – overall winner of the Sustainable Development of the Year and Best Sustainability Initiative for the Public Sector. These awards recognised the projects outstanding sustainability achievement and environmental excellence. Further awards included the 2008 Contract Journal Award for Environmental Leadership.
• Sustainability and Design
• Modular construction
• Wildlife protection
• Archaeology
• Looking Ahead
Background
Sustainability is at the heart of what is important to the supplier, Aspire Defence Ltd, and the customer, the MOD, over the duration of this 35 year contract. It is tempting to think that at the end of this period sustainability will not rate such special consideration because PAC and other major estate development projects will have made the issue an accepted part of daily business.
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