Bloor Midlands HQ by Deeley: low‑carbon office design notes for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Bloor Homes has opened a £5.2m, 18,500 sq ft Midlands regional headquarters in Wall, Lichfield, delivered by Deeley Construction as a two-storey base for around 50 staff with additional training capacity. The building is targeting BREEAM Excellent, incorporating 160 roof-mounted solar panels, 20 electric vehicle charging points, permeable paving and a sustainable urban drainage system to manage surface water on site. For designers and contractors, the scheme signals continued client demand for quantified low‑carbon features and integrated SuDS in medium-scale commercial offices.
Technical Brief
- Sustainable urban drainage system implies on-site attenuation and controlled discharge, reducing off-site storm sewer loading.
- Permeable paving choice indicates infiltration-based surface water management and reduced conventional gully / carrier drain runs.
- BREEAM Excellent target drives early-stage coordination of fabric performance, airtightness and building services integration.
- Two-storey configuration with training space implies variable occupancy profiles, affecting ventilation and thermal zoning strategies.
- Similar medium-scale offices are increasingly bundling quantified PV, EV and SuDS packages into base construction briefs.
Our Take
Within our 918-item Infrastructure corpus, relatively few office-type builds in the UK Midlands feature the kind of on-site renewables and EV provision seen here, signalling that Deeley Construction is positioning itself competitively for public- and private-sector frameworks that now score heavily on operational carbon and transport emissions.
A £5.2 million regional HQ sized for around 50 staff suggests Bloor Homes is consolidating design, planning and management functions in Lichfield rather than pure headcount expansion, which typically improves coordination for multi-site housing projects across the wider Midlands belt.
Installing 160 solar panels and 20 EV chargers at a single office site in Wall sets a benchmark that local authorities in the Midlands can point to when tightening planning expectations on commercial schemes, effectively raising the sustainability floor for other developers operating in the region.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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