The building is a 618,000 sq ft distribution centre for Sainsbury’s, designed to serve 50 stores in the East Midlands and to carry 1.5 million cases per week.

What being Planet Positive means for our building

Working closely with Sainsbury’s, ProLogis delivered a 618,000 sq ft cost-efficient facility that has achieved BREEAM ‘Excellent’ accreditation. Environmental sustainability measures include an on-site resource recycling unit and a rainwater harvesting system that saves 16 million litres of water a year.

All ProLogis buildings are designed to minimise operational carbon emissions and to achieve this, ProLogis adopts a logical approach to carbon reduction. The Sainsbury’s building was designed to function passively and the most efficient plant available was specified for essential energy usage. To meet Sainsbury’s operational needs, ProLogis installed low or zero carbon systems, including a combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) plant that provides electricity and heat for the facility. The heat produced during the electricity generation process is also used to provide refrigeration via an absorption chiller and to heat harvested rainwater for use in an industrial tray wash. The facility’s embodied carbon emissions totalled 22,000 tonnes. These were offset by 110% through the Planet Positive process. Working closely with Sainsbury’s, ProLogis delivered a 618,000 sq ft cost-efficient facility that has achieved BREEAM ‘Excellent’ accreditation. Environmental sustainability measures include an on-site resource recycling unit and a rainwater harvesting system that saves 16 million litres of water a year.

Who we worked with to make our building Planet Positive

Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd contributed to the process, as did the ProLogis supply chain, including CA Building Products and Buckingham Group.