The £11.7m development will replace the existing town centre facility and provide a 16-cell custody block, two vehicle docks, interview rooms, staff accommodation and office space. The existing police station has served North Yorkshire Police since the 1930s but is now outdated.
The building is designed to achieve a BREEAM rating of ‘excellent’ and will incorporate anumber of sustainable features. The building adopts the principles of passive design to provide carbon savings for the lifetime of the building and includes improved fabric U-Values and air permeability, reduced solar gains, low energy lighting, efficient lighting controls and reduced air loss through managed ventilation. To reduce the use of non-renewable resources, solar panels will be installed on the roof to pre-heat water which will be used to meet thermal loads within the building, while air source heat pumps will be used to extract heat from the outside air to provide either heating or cooling as required.
Work started on site 21 February 2011 and completion is scheduled for spring 2012.
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