A modern industrial facility at Panattoni Park Cheb South has become the most environmentally friendly industrial building in the world. The building has received an Outstanding rating and a record score of 94.2 percent according to the prestigious BREEAM New Construction 2016 sustainability certification. The building was constructed by the property-development company Panattoni; the Accolade group is the project’s investor. The facility has a total area of 40,000 square metres. Most of the building’s space is leased by AUTODOC, a German online seller of automotive components, which currently operates in 27 European countries and employs approximately 5,000 people in ten countries.
The achieved level of certification is good not only for Panattoni, but for the whole Czech Republic. It underscores the fact that modern industrial construction in the Czech Republic truly has the highest global standards and places strong emphasis on responsibility toward the environment and local communities. Thanks in part to this, our country remains an interesting destination for investments of multinational companies that want to conduct global business in the area of sustainability - says Pavel Sovička, Managing Director of Panattoni for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
In Cheb, the Czech Republic now has the world’s greenest building for modern industry, which is a source of tremendous satisfaction for us. It is confirmation that the path of investing in the construction of green buildings, which we set out on more than ten years ago, is the only right and possible way for us. There are not many projects with the highest Outstanding level of certification in the world, because the requirements for attaining this level according to BREEAM New Construction are very strict and only a very low percentage of buildings are able to achieve it. I’m all the more pleased that this is sixth Outstanding rating for us - adds Milan Kratina, CEO of Accolade.
Panattoni Park Cheb South, which arose on a brownfield in a former engineering works complex, is composed of six buildings, two of which have the Outstanding rating. The facility that AUTODOC uses as a distribution centre is literally laden with sustainable elements. The construction itself was carried out in accordance with strict environmental measures; more than 85% of the construction waste was saved from being disposed of in landfills. The exposed parts of the building are designed to minimise the frequency of replacements and all materials were selected with respect to their environmental impact throughout their life cycle.
[1] Within the BREEAM certification process, all parameters are compared to a standardised industrial building.
The Cheb facility is the sixth Outstanding building in the joint portfolio built by the developer Panattoni in conjunction with the investor Accolade. According to statistics, the overwhelming majority of buildings that undergo BREEAM New Constrution certification achieve a Very Good rating, followed at a great distance by Excellent, whereas only approximately 3% achieve the highest Outstanding level. Furthermore, Panattoni and Accolade have become the first entities in both the Czech Republic and Poland to obtaining the BREEAM New Constrution Outstanding rating for a new industrial building. In addition to the two buildings at the Panattoni Partk Cheb South (the other is occupied by Kaufland eCommerce Fulfilment), the Stříbro industrial park and Kojetín industrial park have Outstanding certification; with a floor area of 187,000 square metres, the building in the Kojetín park is the largest structure with this level of certification. The Szczecin a Konin industrial parks in Poland have also achieved the highest rating. The total combined area of all projects with the Outstanding level of certification amounts to nearly 260,000 square metres.
Accolade Holding, a.s. operates in seven European countries, where it invests in modern and sustainable infrastructure for global e-commerce, manufacturing, and logistics brands. It owns a network of more than 50 BREEAM-certified industrial parks in the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovakia worth more than 2.65 billion EUR, guaranteeing a sustainable and environmentally friendly approach. The leasable area of all properties is more than 3,1 million sqm with almost 300 tenants, and the annual rent 138 million EUR. Accolade also invests in brownfield revitalisation, this making up over a third of the company’s portfolio. A building in the redeveloped compound of Strojírny Cheb became the most environmentally friendly industrial building in the world receiving the Outstanding grade and a record score of 94,2 percent according to the BREEAM global sustainability rating. Accolade currently holds BREEAM Outstanding certification for 6 projects in the Czech Republic and Poland, their portfolio one of the greenest in Europe.
Accolade is committed to following ESG principles by adhering to strict environmental protection requirements, providing assistance and support to local communities, and implementing a well-defined compliance code. The company understands the importance of sustainable development and strives to balance economic growth with social and environmental responsibility.
In 2017, the group bought the operator of the second busiest airport in the Czech Republic, Brno-Tuřany, and is preparing a polygon near Stříbro to serve as a research centre for the development and certification of autonomous driving vehicles. For more information, please visit www.accolade.eu.
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