The new £2m, 3,700 sq ft office building will be home to Ideal Heating’s logistics and administrative teams and is located at the UK market leader’s headquarters site in Hull.
It is the first of Ideal Heating’s buildings to be net zero for carbon emissions, thanks, in part, to 92KW of clean electricity generated by rooftop solar panels.
The single-storey office building is equipped with one of Ideal Heating’s own commercial Ecomod air source heat pumps, providing reliable, low carbon heating in all seasons.
£60m investment programme
The new facility underlines Ideal Heating’s long-term commitment to its Hull headquarters and its status as one of the city’s major employers.
Ideal Heating is part way through a £60m investment programme at its National Avenue site in Hull, including new manufacturing, distribution and research and development facilities to support heat pumps and other renewable technologies.
Ideal Heating engineering director Helen Villamuera said: “The opening of our new office building is the latest significant milestone in our 100-year-plus history in Hull.
“As the first net zero building opened at National Avenue, it reflects our commitment to sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint across all of our operations.
“The transition to net zero is a journey every business must embark on. At Ideal Heating, we’re very proud to be at the forefront of our industry’s transition to renewable technologies like heat pumps, as well as our focus on sustainability in all our operations.”
Truly sustainable
Andrew Johnson, managing director of Johnson Construction, said: “We’re really proud to be handing over this building, which we hope will make a real difference to the team at Ideal Heating.
“As one of our company’s flagship buildings for the year, it’s a showcase of the truly sustainable and environmentally-friendly projects we have the capability and expertise to deliver.
“Ideal Heating has been a pleasure to work with. It’s a real sign of how far we’ve come as a Hull business to be working with one of the biggest companies in the city, helping them decarbonise their site and transition to net zero.”
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