The Burgess Park Community Sports Centre provides change facilities for the artificial surface and for turf playing fields, as well as a reception, kitchen, bar, community room and stores. It was funded by Southwark Council, the Football Foundation and by energy grants from the DTI. The new building is tied to the site by its attachment to remaining walls of factory buildings that previously occupied the site, and is set within it by being sunk into the ground and by the change rooms being all but covered in excavated earth. Demonstrating advanced low and renewable energy technologies, the approach was to minimise energy consumption and, then, to use the potential of the sun and the earth to minimise reliance on fossil fuels. The energy strategy incorporates high insulation, solar protection, a building integrated photovoltaic array, ground-linked heat pump for water and space heating, and rainwater recycling.
Shortlisted LGC & HSJ Building Sustainable Communities Award 2008
Green Construction Awards Green Small Project of the Year 2007
RICS London Region Award for Sustainability 2007
Shortlisted RICS National Award for Sustainability 2007
Green Apple Gold Winner, Community Projects 2006
Shortlisted Building Sustainability Awards Low Energy Building of the Year 2006
- Client: Southwark Leisure
- Value: £1.1 million
- Completion Date: 2006
