No.1 Nottingham Science Park, a spectacular new landmark on a main route into Nottingham city centre has been recognised for design excellence in its home town.

The iconic focal point of specialist regeneration developer Blueprint’s £50 million, 12 acre-extension to the city’s existing science park won the Design Excellence prize at the Nottingham Evening Post Commercial Property Awards.

The eye-catching building includes a range of green features and is set in a public park with a beautiful boardwalk over a wetland habitat that also serves as an urban drainage system.  The project is intended to set an inspirational gold standard in design and environmental sustainability for science and business parks, and to show that design quality and sustainability are commercially viable. Its green features have cut carbon emissions by around 60% from the 1997 building regulations standards and provided significant reductions in operational costs for occupiers. .

The development has won a host of awards since completion last autumn but this accolade is especially important for the team at Blueprint.  John Long explains: “Sometimes the hardest awards to win are those in your home town, especially when you’re a relatively new business, so this is a very special award for us. Having our work recognised by our peers locally feels like a coming of age for Blueprint.”

Blueprint is also celebrating the arrival of a new tenant as expanding environmental technology firm 4energy, which specialises in carbon cutting cooling systems, moved its newly formed data centre division to No.1 Nottingham Science Park. Blueprint is offering flexible terms to help growing research and technology businesses move in with spaces available from 1,500 sq ft and upwards.
 
Designed by award winning architects, London based Studio Egret West, No.1 Nottingham Science Park is the biggest speculative development of its kind in Nottingham at over 45,000 sq ft.

Blueprint has worked with a range of partners on No.1 Nottingham Science Park - including emda, Nottingham City Council and Greater Nottingham Partnership, and the project was part financed by the European Regional Development Fund. The boardwalk was part financed by emda as public realm.

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Note to Editors:
A joint venture between igloo, the world’s first socially responsible property fund, East Midlands Development Agency (emda) and Homes & Communities Agency (HCA), Blueprint is an East Midlands based, 50-50 public-private partnership – a specialist development vehicle with a remit and the resources to deliver sustainable, design-led regeneration projects across the region.