Student eco-village is rated 'outstanding' on BREEAM scale

The public/private development, aptly named The Green, consists of 1,026 single rooms within six- and seven-storey self-catered apartments and four-storey townhouses built around a pond.

The eco-village was developed by Listerhills Sustainable Student Village, a joint venture between Welbeck Land and the Hayat Group.

It is one of only 15 buildings in the world with the top ‘outstanding’ rating and the first multi-residential building in the UK to qualify for this status.

‘It was fantastic to hear that we had been awarded an ‘outstanding’ classification and we’re all very proud. The project is up there with the most sustainable in the world and that’s great,’ said Chris Guyatt, an architect from Goddard Wybor Practice who worked on The Green.

‘From the outset, we aimed to design a highly sustainable building and, in order to quantify this, we measured it against the BREEAM scale,’ he added.

The BREEAM scale incorporates aspects relating to energy and water use, the internal environment (health and wellbeing), pollution, transport, materials, waste, ecology and management processes.