{"id":35056,"date":"2022-03-02T12:57:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T12:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=35056"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T12:58:04","slug":"north-shields-to-get-sustainable-transport-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/north-shields-to-get-sustainable-transport-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"North Shields to get sustainable transport hub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Willmott Dixon is teaming up with North Tyneside Council to deliver a sustainable transport hub and town square in North Shields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project team say the proposed transport hub will provide a modern and convenient, high-quality facility bringing all bus services in the town together and closer to Metro, taxis and links to cycling infrastructure \u2013 making it easier for people to choose cleaner, greener forms of travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site will also feature a new open town square for events and leisure activities with new public realm creating a much-needed green space in the heart of the town centre and increasing biodiversity in an urban environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sustainability<\/a> will be at the heart of the projects, with the transport hub being targeted as the first net-zero carbon building in North Tyneside. To achieve this, the structure will incorporate an enhanced building envelope<\/a> to maximise airtightness, coupled with an array of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels and a surface water management system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project has undertaken a Life Cycle Carbon Assessment to understand and take steps to reduce the embodied carbon<\/a> footprint of the project. This was done by assessing the design at the earliest stage then amending the design<\/a> to use techniques, products and materials to reduce the embodied carbon by a target of 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By optimising the design, North Tyneside Council can ensure their new facility will perform to the best of its ability, supporting the council\u2019s ambitions of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cllr Carl Johnson, Deputy Mayor of North Tyneside, said: \u201cWe are committed to transforming North Shields into somewhere people want to live, work and visit to help sustain the town for years to come. We\u2019re now starting to see these ambitions coming to fruition with work getting underway on the ground. These are really exciting times for North Shields and there\u2019s every reason to be optimistic for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Willmott Dixon is teaming up with North Tyneside Council to deliver a sustainable transport hub and town square in North Shields. The project team say the proposed transport hub will provide a modern and convenient, high-quality facility bringing all bus services in the town together and closer to Metro, taxis and links to cycling infrastructure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Tyneside-hub220303.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-97q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35058,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35056\/revisions\/35058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}