ABSTRACT
The Solar Office is a new office building designed for Akeler Services on a business park, Doxford International, located on the edge of Sunderland in the north east of England. The building was completed in shell and core form in April 1998. The brief for the building and its procurement follow the robust fast-track pattern that is now commonplace in speculative office development; a course already adopted and refined at Doxford. Where it breaks with convention is in its response to energy consumption and environmental depredation.
