ABSTRACT
The University of East Anglia (UEA) was established in 1963. Architype has a long-established record of delivering buildings with authentic ‘green’ credentials and is perhaps the UK’s most successful exponent of sustainable design solutions. The team behind the project took advantage of this unusual commission to test the viability of constructing a large university office building using locally sourced materials, whether that meant organic and grown, secondhand or material from local waste streams. The team also specified the reuse of local second-hand materials discarded by others, and complemented this with a policy of using local tradespeople and suppliers whenever possible. Architype located other local material sources for the project. The Enterprise Centre at UEA will, over its 100-year life, treat the planet with more kindness than most buildings occupied in the UK and beyond.
