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Cefn Mawr Tesco
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The Cefn Mawr store will generate its own on-site electricity using a renewable fuel Combined Cooling Heat and Power plant (CCHP), with excess being sold to the National Grid. Lighting will brighten and dim depending on the amount of daylight entering the building while heating and cooling systems will
The 25,000 sq ft site features refrigerators which use gases with virtually no environmental impact. The store is timber framed as Tesco decided to trial a new building method: the Structurally Integrated Panelling System. Using off-site construction, the store’s shell was lifted into place on its arrival at Cefn Mawr, reducing time spent building by one week and therefore minimising carbon emissions and site wastage.
The building has no steel skeleton as the wooden walls are load bearing, at the end of life this wood can be recycled to build another store or used as a fuel source.
James Pitcher, head of energy and environment for property services at Tesco, said: "Our zero-carbon stores allow us to trial new energy efficient technologies, which if successful we can incorporate into future stores.
“We have set the target of being a zero-carbon business by 2050, and in order to do this we must continue to embrace new technologies and work with our partners to achieve new innovations in store design."
Cefn Mawr follows stores at Ramsey in Cambridgeshire, Bourne in Lincolnshire, Welshpool in Powys and Cabra in Dublin.
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