THE Hawk Creative Business Park started off its green credentials when it recycled a set of redundant farm buildings just south of Easingwold.
It was built with green technologies and low-carbon building methods, and is hoping to be recognised with the Think Green Award at The Press Business Awards.
A building management system controls the light and heat of all its offices individually, activating when workers arrive in the morning.
The heating is provided by wood chip, from short-rotation coppice willow grown on site or at an adjacent farm. Roof water is also collected to be recycled for use in the toilets.
Keren Redshaw, business centre manager, said: “The estimates for the annual carbon savings from the biomass system are still to be quantified, but are estimated to be of the order of 30 tonnes per annum.”
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