Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Headquarters
Project Location:
Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Headquarters, 'Carrochan', Balloch, Scotland
Architect:
Dave Page and Karen Pickering - Page & Park Architects, Glasgow
Project Manager:
Gardiner & Theobald Management Services, Glasgow
Contractor:
Main Contractors - CBC (Central Building Construction Ltd), Glasgow
Sub Contractors - W J O'Neil Interiors, Glasgow
Structural and Services Engineer:
Buro Happold
The Building:
The new Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority Headquarters, is a two-storey building with twin-pitched slate roofs on a 2,200 square metre building floor area and houses up to 122 staff. It embodies high standards in sustainability including a biomass primary heating system, extensive use of natural materials, and an indigenous Douglas Fir timber stucture. At the pre-contract stage the building has achieved an 'excellent' BREEM rating. The expected carbon footprint of the building is 80 tonnes as compared to 200 for a conventional building and 140 tonnes for best practice.
Installation: 
Roof:
200mm of Thermafleece fixed between roof timber rafters.
Walls:
150mm of Thermafleece fixed between wall studs.
Installer:
W J O'Neil Interiors, Glasgow
Funding:
The cost of the main contract including external works was just under £5million, with a total project budget of just under £9 million including all associated costs such as land acquisition, professional fees, furniture and fit out, ICT infrastructure and VAT.
Programme Dates:
The project was formally approved in July 2005, with the design team lead by Page and Park appointed in November 2005. Planning permission was secured in June 2006. The site start date was the 4th December 2006, with the fit out taking place from January 2008, and the staff taking up occupation in April 2008.
Other Environmental features:
Biomass Primary Heating system which uses woodchip pellets sourced from the park and makes the heating carbon neutral.
The HQ is the largest building with a 'green' timber structure in the UK. It uses the largest section of green timber in the UK with the biggest posts measuring a 650mm x 600mm x 6.2m long!
The Douglas Fir frame comprises of 160 cubic metres of timber weighing in at 80 tonnes.
All the timber was sourced from Scotland and the borders.
The stone used on the roof, walls and floor is Burlington slate from the Lake District.
Sustainable urban-drainage system reed bed treats both rain and grey water. 
