BESPOKE WINDCATCHER: Tesco Stores - Cheetham Hill Natural Ventilation Added on 02/08/2012 • Location: Cheetham Hill • Consultant: Scott Wilson Tesco, the UK’s leading supermarket chain set itself a target to reduce by 50% the carbon emissions from all its stores by 2020 as compared to a baseline of 2006. Remarkably they exceeded this ambitious target when they opened their first major new Eco-store at Cheetham Hill, Manchester, reducing the carbon footprint by 70% compared to an equivalent sized store built just over two years ago. The 52,000 sq ft Cheetham Hill store, located in a redevelopment area near Manchester, is built to an Environmental Format that will provide a “low carbon blueprint” for future Tesco stores built in the UK. “The environmental impact of the store is absolute

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