Savills has bolstered its property management team with the appointment of Jonathan Hale who joins as a senior sustainability consultant in the firm’s Finsbury Circus office, London. Jonathan has a total of eight years experience managing properties and their energy consumption, most recently working within the energy and carbon consultancy division at Inenco, NIFES and prior to that at John Laing where he was carbon manager. Lizzie Jones, sustainability manager at Savills, comments: “Having worked with a breadth of clients Jonathan brings a strong skill set across energy and carbon management, environmental compliance and management systems and sustainability strategies. His experience will be fundamental in helping us to continue to expand our sustainability team and further develop the best in class services we strive to provide.” Source link

International real estate advisor Savills, on behalf of PHG Capital, has sold the 2 Riverside Court office building in Cardiff to a private client for £1.515 million, representing a net initial yield of 8.40%. Located in the well-established Gwaelod-y-Garth industrial estate, 2 Riverside Court has a total floor area of 9,054 sq ft (841 sq m). The property is fully let on a new 15 year lease to Synexus Clinical Research, for a rent of £135,000 per annum. PHG Capital engaged the services of Welsh specialist fit out contractor, Office Image, to undertake a substantial fit out of the property prior to Synexus moving in. Other office occupiers in the immediate vicinity include RSPCA, Environ and Pick Everard. Ross Griffin, investment director at Savills Cardiff, comments: “We are pleased to have sold the attached for our client, its strong location and tenant makes it an ideal investment opportunity. The deal is reflective of the continued demand we have seen recently from investors in the Cardiff office market.” Knight Frank acted for the buyer. Source link

Book Course HSL is to run a 1 day course on Site and Transport Safety – LONDON. Etc. Venues Marble Arch – Edgware Road Garfield House 86 Edgware Road London W2 2EA 26 April 2016 PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS COURSE WILL BE HELD IN LONDON Introduction Vehicle movements and loading and unloading vehicles can be some of the most dangerous activities carried out on a worksite. This course will help you understand the legal requirements of both road traffic law and workplace safety law, how and why things go wrong, and how you can take practicable steps to reduce risks in your business. Course includes Background for load securing Legal principles and UK and European requirements Use of the vehicle structure for load securing Lashing loads for safe road transport Responsibility and communication in the transport chain Working at height and fall prevention Vehicle/pedestrian separation and preventing incidents Risk assessment and systems of work for loading and transport Who should attend? Site managers and transport managers working in general haulage, retail, warehousing and distribution. Venue ETC Venues - Marble Arch Garfield House 86 Edgware Road London W2 2EA Cost The cost of this course is £525 per person (includes course notes, certificate of attendance and lunch/refreshments). Book Course Please note the invoice option is not available within 4 weeks of the course date, or for overseas customers. For further dates and additional information email: training@hsl.gsi.gov.uk or contact the Training & Conferences Unitat HSL directly on +44 (0)1298 218806. Back to Health & Safety Training Courses Back to the top Source link

Arup has been appointed to develop a 21-storey tower that will be the world’s tallest wooden residential building to date. The 73m-high Haut building will be built in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and will include 55 apartments  and an underground car park. It will have a total gross floor area of approximately 14,500m2 and is designed to receive the BREEAM Outstanding label, the highest possible sustainability score. Arup will work in partnership with Lingotto, Nicole Maarsen, Team V Architecture and Nederlandse Energie Maatschappij. Using wood provides an answer to the Municipality of Amsterdam’s quest for CO2 neutrality, said Arup. Haut’s wood can store over three million kilograms of CO2. In addition, 1,250m2 of solar panels will help the building produce renewable energy, while wastewater is purified through a constructed wetland on the roof. The parking garage in the building has space for electric (shareable) cars. Arup is providing multi-disciplinary engineering services, including building services engineering, fire, acoustics and building physics consulting. Haut is being built in Amstelkwartier, a new district on the Amstel that includes about 4,000 homes, shops and businesses. So far, approximately 1,000 homes have been completed and the first school has been opened. The construction of the new city park Somer Lust aan de Amstel has also been finished.