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NG Bailey鈥檚 Solais House building, at Strathclyde Business Park, has won the Innovation Award at the British Council for Offices鈥� national awards ceremony.

The company scooped the award for the development of its Scottish HQ, which has both an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) grade 鈥楢鈥� and BREEAM Excellent rating. The judges felt that although certain individual elements of the design were very impressive, it was the all-round thinking behind the development of the project that made it worthy of being crowned the winner.

Solais House was up against three other buildings, from regions across the UK - Great Portland Estate鈥檚 160 Tooley Street 鈥� London, BDP鈥檚 11 Ducie Street - Manchester and Defra鈥檚 Project Zebra building in Northumberland.

Colin Walker, managing director of NG Bailey鈥檚 Scottish operation, said: 鈥淲e are very proud to have been selected as winner of the BCO鈥檚 Innovation Award. This is a nationally recognised event and winning the award has allowed us to prove to the UK鈥檚 construction and property elite what can be achieved in terms of sustainability, even on a standard plan office build, when a partnership approach to construction is taken.鈥�

Stephen Lewis, development director at HF Developments, added 鈥淲e are delighted at the well earned recognition Solais House has received from the BCO. From inception throughout the development process, we worked very closely with NG Bailey to develop their innovative office. Since completion we have continued to incorporate many of the technologies used in the build into our expanding portfolio.鈥�