19 George Road – Birmingham’s First BREEAM Excellent rated office scheme

19 George Road, Edgbaston is Birmingham’s first commercial building ever to receive the BREEAM* ‘Excellent’ rating - the development industry’s highest environmental accolade.

The new £2.2 million scheme exceeded current building regulations on assessment, achieving the very highest ‘green’ credentials and has created the benchmark for commercial schemes within Birmingham. This 12,545 sq ft of contemporary office space incorporates some of the latest requirements for a sustainable building as well as high quality commercial finishes, high levels of insulation and natural day lighting.

The development, designed by REID Architecture and project managed by DBK Back, was pre let to Shaws, the largest independent firm of dedicated Chartered Tax Advisors in the UK.

Sustainability has been at the heart of Calthorpe Estates for nearly three centuries. Today’s challenging environmental standards are integral to the £350 million regeneration programme, and all new office buildings on the Estate will also be built to exacting environmental criteria. One such building is Calthorpe House, the £40 million Grade A office development, which is on target to achieve another BREEAM rating of ‘Excellent’. The 102,000 sq ft development, situated near Five Ways Island, will offer large open floor plates of up to 22,000 sq ft upon completion.

Calthorpe Estates’ regeneration programme also includes Edgbaston Mill, a 450,000 sq ft retail and leisure development including hotel, office and residential accommodation situated directly opposite Edgbaston Cricket Ground; University Science Park, Pebble Mill, 393,000 sq ft of purpose-built research and development space on the famous former BBC site; and Edgbaston Galleries at Five Ways Island, which represents the largest regeneration project of a principal gateway to Birmingham, offering 425,000 sq ft of retail and leisure facilities as well as hotel and Grade A office space.

* BREEAM (Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method) is the world's most widely used means of reviewing the environmental performance of buildings and is regarded as the measure of best practice in environmental design and management.