Carbon-neutral eco pub, Marylebone, London

Budget: £500,000
Completion due: Project withdrawn due to client leasing issues

Redevelopment of public house to carbon-neutral pub

This five-floor building in the Marylebone conservation area has always been a traditional pub. With staff accommodation on the top floors and service spaces in the basement, the building needed extensive modernisation. Our clients wanted to renovate the building to create a carbon-neutral venue, which resonated with our philosophy for sustainable design. We devised a new layout comprising a new eco-pub on the ground floor together with a restaurant on the first floor and a function room/wine tasting room in the basement. Our proposal included the conversion of the upper two floors to hotel rooms that would be accessed through a new separate entrance at street level.

The project incorporated various sustainable and carbon neautral elements and techniques as follows:

• using simple, locally sourced materials
• introducing heat pumps within the building to making a heat exchange to cool the store and refridgeration rooms and provide extra heat to accommodation spaces.
  
• adding exterior solar panels for hot water
• introducing a rain water reservoir to use for flushing toilets
• integrating internal insulation within the building fabric
• introducing double glazed windows
• constructing a green facade featuring extensive external planting in plant boxes
• specifying only refurbished furniture or pieces made with reused and recycled materials
• serving local produce and English wines in the pub, restaurant and function room