Festive Red Man Unveils Chineham Park's Newest Offices To Let

Christmas has come early to Chineham Park as one of their famous Red Men pays a festive visit to unveil Central 40, the newest building and the largest new office space in Basingstoke.

The 40,000 sq ft new building is now available to be let and to ensure it continues to spread Christmas joy to its new occupiers throughout the New Year, the building was designed specifically to optimise workplace flexibility, reduce energy consumption and minimise running costs.

Central 40 is the only local building to comply with the latest building regulations, featuring solar heated water and an innovative air-conditioning system that will allow the occupier to use up to 30% less energy per annum, assuming normal office use, compared to a traditional 4-pipe fan coil air conditioned building. Even the lights in the building are on a timer system to ensure they are not consuming energy when not needed.

Rupert Batho, managing director of Chineham Park said: “Central 40 is the largest new office building to be built in Basingstoke since 2002 and has been certified with a “Very Good” BREEAM rating, making it a very exciting addition to the Park. It is now available to let and we are anticipating a high level of interest from potential occupiers.”

For more information, visit www.central40.co.uk

New Offices To Let for Basingstoke

CENTRAL40 is a 3 storey office building designed to the highest standards. The office is principally clad with glazed curtain walling and has been designed specifically to optimise workplace flexibility, reduce energy consumption and minimise running costs.

The offices are provided over three levels, with the a feature double height reception. The building’s construction and the innovative air cooling system ensure that maximum energy and space planning efficiency can be achieved. Other features which create an excellent overall working environment include LG7 lighting, rain water harvesting, shower facilities on each level, solar heating water to common areas, and an intelligent building management system.

SPECIFICATION
CENTRAL
0 Double height reception area
0 1x17 person passenger lift
0 Down flow comfort cooled air conditioning system
0 Full access 300mm raised floors
0 LG7 Lighting to office areas to achieve 350 lux
0 1800mm planning grid
0 3.0 kN/m2 (3 + 1.0) floor loadings
0 Building management system
0 Access Control System
0 Male and Female WC, disabled and shower facilities on each floor
0 150 Car parking spaces - ratio 1:274

MEPC Chineham Park wins Sustainable Business of the Year

They were awarded the title for the many initiatives they have introduced to the Park, including a car-sharing scheme, Share & Care. The scheme allows users to locate other people working at Chineham Park who make the same or similar journey to work each day and then arrange to share lifts, saving up to an estimated £2,930 in travel costs and a massive nine tonnes of CO2 each year.

Rupert Batho, managing director for MEPC Chineham Park, said; “We are delighted to have won the Sustainable Business of the Year category and it is especially rewarding to be recognised for this amongst the local business community. In addition to our car-sharing and recycling schemes we have implemented on the Park, five of our buildings have recently undergone refurbishment, enabling them to meet the sustainable needs of future occupiers and our newest office developments, South 60 and Central 40, incorporate the use of solar energy, rain water harvesting and an innovative air conditioning system, allowing the occupier to use up to 30% less energy per annum.”

L-R: Rupert Batho, managing director, and Richard Hawkes, estates manager, collect the Sustainable Business of the Year award.

Kids Unlimited Celebrates 25 Years with Cake Competition at Chineham Park

Children from the Kids Unlimited nursery in Chineham Park showed off their artistic skills at the weekend by decorating cakes in honour of the 25th anniversary of Kids Unlimited.

The nursery hosted a summer fun day on Saturday 27th September for the children and their families, where they enjoyed the activities organised by the nursery, including face painting and a bouncy castle, as well as the cake decorating competition sponsored by MEPC Chineham Park, for which the children were asked to decorate a cake.

Jo Szegota, asset manager for MEPC Chineham Park, came along to judge the winner. She said; “This was a great day out for the children and their families and allowed the children to get involved in celebrating the nursery’s anniversary. Kids Unlimited is a great asset to the park as they provide discounted childcare to our occupiers in a central location.”

The winning cake designer, Mattia Marchesini was awarded with his prize of a family day out to Marwell Zoo including spending money, after impressing all involved with his colourful icing.

Kids Unlimited is located in the Spindlewood area of Chineham Park, making it the convenient choice for parents working on the business park and surrounding areas. The experienced staff provide all inclusive care for children between the ages of 3 months and 5 years, and employees of businesses in Chineham Park are eligible for a discount of £1 per day off the standard fees.

Pictured LtoR: Carola Tavella and her son Mattia Marchesini, the winner of the cake competition, receive their prize from Jo Szegota, asset manager for MEPC Chineham Park

Meet the team behind the newest view in Basingstoke

Chineham Park introduces the team behind Central 40, the largest new office building in Basingstoke since 2002.

The team at MEPC Chineham Park are; Rupert Batho, managing director, Jo Szegota, leasing manager, Wendy Fletcher, estates assistant, and Richard Hawkes, estate manager. They are based within the park at Rosewood, just across the road from Central 40.

Located in the centre of the park and offering a scenic view, the 3 storey 40,000 sq ft development has been built to comply with the latest building regulations and is designed to suit the sustainability needs of future occupiers.

Rupert Batho, managing director, said; “As the newest, biggest building in Basingstoke, Central 40 sets a new standard for sustainable developments. Sustainability is high on the agenda for all of us at Chineham Park and we are confident to be able to offer Central 40 as a new, sustainable place for people to work and businesses to grow.”

The office is specifically designed to optimise workplace flexibility, reduce energy consumption and minimise running costs. By using solar energy, rainwater harvesting and high quality solar glass, combined with an innovative air conditioning system, an occupier could use up to 30% less energy per annum when compared to a traditional 4-pipe fan coil air conditioned building.

For more information visit www.central40.co.uk

L-R: Rupert Batho, managing director, Jo Szegota, leasing manager, Wendy Fletcher, estates assistant, and Richard Hawkes, estates manager, on the roof of the largest new office building in Basingstoke.

TALARIS CHOOSES BASINGSTOKE FOR HQ IN NEW OFFICE DEVELOPMENT AT MEPC CHINEHAM PARK

Talaris, the leading provider of cash handling solutions to financial institutions and retailers worldwide, has chosen South 60 at Basingstoke’s Chineham Park as its corporate head office. This letting underlines Chineham Park’s position as Basingstoke’s premier office location – with Talaris joining other high-profile occupiers that include Motorola, Ericsson, Regus, and Canon.

A three-storey building, South 60 provides approximately 11,000 sq ft of office space and is located at the entrance of Chineham Park. The landmark new office development is designed to optimise workplace flexibility, reduce energy consumption and minimise running costs. Constructed with energy efficiency in mind, South 60’s flexibility is provided by the planning grid and innovative cooling system which facilitate excellent space planning.

Rupert Batho, Managing Director of Chineham Park, comments: “We warmly welcome Talaris to Chineham Park and we are especially proud that this new company has chosen our park for its headquarters. Activity on the park has been good over the past year and this is currently a very exciting time for us. In the next few weeks we will also be launching our newest and Basingstoke’s largest new office building Central 40. We are anticipating an equally high amount of interest for this development.”

The former De La Rue company that is now part of The Carlyle Group plans to relocate its employees to the A-grade office building in January 2009.

Tracey Graham, Chief Executive Officer at Talaris says, “We have sought offices that not only offer high quality features but encompass the environmental principles that are in line with our own. MEPC Chineham Park offered the perfect solution and we are looking forward to the move. Talaris is the cash solution partner of choice for Financial Institutions worldwide and we wanted our new headquarters to be welcoming for all our partners.”

The three-storey building provides offices on the first and second floors, a ground floor reception with further office space and onsite parking for 40 cars. With high ceilings and excellent access to daylight, it gives occupiers a light and modern workspace. South 60’s design also maximises energy efficiency which could reduce CO₂ omissions by approximately 10 tonnes a year when compared to a traditional four pipe fan coil air conditioned building of similar size.

CHINEHAM PARK OCCUPANTS AND EMPLOYEES RIDE THE WAVES AT SUMMER BEACH PARTY

MEPC Chineham Park held their annual fun day on Friday 18^th July with the theme of a beach party, complete with an authentic Caribbean BBQ, steel band and a surf simulator.

The event, in the Spindlewood area of the park, was free to attend for all occupants and employees at the site, of which 500 turned up on the day to enjoy the festivities. Rupert Batho, Managing Director of Chineham Park said: “Chineham Park is home to over 40 organisations and so we see it as a community; we would like all who work here to feel as though they belong. Organising the annual fun day is our way of giving something back to them to thank them for making it such a great place to work.”

Even the weather was in support of the party, with the rain holding off until after the party had finished. The party-goers listened to the music of a steel band and enjoyed a BBQ by Caribbean Cookpot, a company who specialise in providing authentic Caribbean catering services, with chefs from both Barbados and Jamaica. The guests then spent the afternoon trying out the surf simulator to see who could stay on the longest! Donna Williams, a recent newcomer to Chineham Park and Call Dispatcher – Hardware for Kofax UK Ltd, said: “It was lovely to feel part of something bigger than just one company and great to network with other people working on the park.”

More photos from the event will be available on the MEPC Chineham Park website at www.mepc.com/chinehampark/

SELECTA UK EXPANDS TO CHINEHAM PARK

Selecta UK, who are part of the Selecta group which is the largest food and beverage vending services operator in Europe, are the newest residents of Chineham Park.

The company, who are headquartered in the Daneshill area of Basingstoke, are continuing to expand and needed extra space for their distribution and service functions. They have moved into the Beechwood area of Chineham Park and now have 5,022 sq ft of warehouse space that had recently been refurbished by MEPC.

Martin Trenter, Area Service & Facilities Manager for Selecta UK said: “Our previous property could only be used for office space whereas our new site at Chineham Park gives us enough space for our offices and warehouse. Being part of the community here at Chineham Park also allows us to network with other businesses.”

As the largest European vending operator, Selecta is present in over 24 countries across Europe, with 20,000 point of sale vending machines in the UK and serves more than one million items every day from their vending machines in schools, colleges, workplaces and public places such as railway stations and car parks.

Chineham Park joins the social network revolution

Chineham Park sets up a facebook page. Hopefully this will develop over the coming months to provide a resource of information for what’s happening on the business park here in Basingstoke

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Office To Let/Rent Basingstoke

We currently have a number of office to let/rent here in basingstoke on Chineham Park.
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A Striking Success

Paper manufacturer, Arjo Wiggins came through to win a nail-biting victory in the first-ever ‘Chineham Challenge Cup’ bowling tournament for occupiers, organised by MEPC Chineham Park.

After the first and second game, Arjo Wiggins were hot on the heels of Ericsson. Arjo Wiggins determination was such that they never gave up and showed great teamwork, clinching the whole tournament. They bowled their corporate neighbours over by an amazing four points and took the top spot with a score of 790.

The Oscar style golden trophy was presented by Jo Szegota, Asset Manager and Wendy Fletcher, Estate Assistant at MEPC Chineham Park to team players Richard Lloyd, Martin Newell, Mark Scully, Shona Stronach, Suzanne Brown and Claire Saunders who all played outstandingly.

Team captain, Richard said: “Thanks to Chineham Park for organising a great night. The buffet was super, the hospitality was good and the victory finished the night perfectly.”

Geoff Warner who was playing for Hama said: “Well done to Arjo they played an excellent game and our team relished the challenge. They played their best and gave it their all and we look forward to an event such as this being held again.”

Organiser, Wendy said: “It was a fantastic evening and everyone had an enjoyable time. It was good to see local business pulling together for our first ever Challenge Cup, networking and having fun. I would like to say thank you to all the teams Arjo, Ericsson, Alida, Hama, Fitness First and Kone – you were all such good sports.

Go Green - Chineham Park finds greener ways to travel

Thank you to everyone who took part in the first ever travel survey. Over 650 responses were received.

Congratulations to Daniel Leng from Micro Peripherals in Lindenwood; his entry was chosen from our lucky draw and he is now the proud owner of a £300 mountain bike.

The survey, which was sent to all businesses located at Chineham Park, was designed to identify key areas to make sustainable travel easier. People were asked questions, about their methods of transport and the results revealed the following:

39% of respondents expressed an interest in utilising a car share scheme. Consequently MEPC have met with Lift Share UK and are creating a car share scheme on the Chineham Park website to help all of us adopt more sustainable ways to travel to work. This scheme will be going live in April and further information will follow in due course.

Many people travel from the same area each day and what is apparent from the results is that some of these journeys could be shared, which would:

• Reduce fuel costs by sharing day-to-day expenses
• Decrease congestion and save valuable time at the beginning and end of the day
• Cut down stress
• Enhance the re-sale value of cars by reducing the mileage and wear and tear
• Give users a more sociable and less stressful way of travelling
• Reduce traffic pollution and minimise the impact on local communities and the environment

The survey also showed that 15% of respondents utilise the courtesy coaches as their main form of transport. The Park's dedicated and complimentary bus service runs between Chineham Park and Basingstoke railway station every 15 minutes at peak hours. In 2007 the coaches undertook 150,000 passenger movements, which is a 10% increase on the 2006 level.

69% of respondents mentioned that if cycle routes were improved and safer they would be more encouraged to cycle to work. And, over 12.6% of our occupiers would be encouraged to walk to work more often if the access onto the park was better lit. As a result of these findings, we are in the process of liaising with the local council to encourage them to extend the cycle lane further into the park and improve the lighting on the public footpaths.

Wendy Fletcher, Travel Co-ordinator at MEPC Chineham Park said,"The feedback and views in surveys, such as this, helps MEPC to strive to meet the needs of everyone who works here. It's only by receiving such feedback that improvements can be made."

Once again the MEPC team at Chineham Park would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part and are sure many more of you will take part in our next travel survey in December 08.

A great place for business to grow

The UK will be the European hub for Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which is good news for people living in the Basingstoke and the surrounding area, as Chineham Park has been chosen as the location for their expansion.

The global speciality pharmaceutical company has taken 11,000 sq ft of space in the newly refurbished 9-11 offices at Cedarwood. This will create more jobs in the local area.

Colin Terry, VP & General Manager, Northern Europe for Valeant Pharmaceuticals is delighted with their new offices and says 'We have been based at Chineham for nearly 10 years, but as a result of UK growth and European expansion over the past couple of years, recognised that there was the need to grow our offices. We have been very happy at Chineham, and as staff retention was a crucial driver in our decision making process, we wanted to remain within Basingstoke. The new buildings at Cedarwood were perfect for us as it has given the company the right space, profile and flexibility as the platform to develop our business throughout the Continent.'

Cedarwood is another example of how Chineham Park is committed to sustainability. The refurbishment process uses less materials and energy than demolishing and starting a new build.

Rupert Batho, Managing Director for MEPC's Chineham Park, said 'Our culture is to create a commercial environment where an organisation can arrive on the park and take a small unit, typically around 2,000 sq ft and grow. Working in partnership with Valeant Pharmaceuticals, we have helped them manage their growth since they first arrived at Chineham Park, and have now provided them with the right environment for them to continue to expand and thrive here.'

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Chineham Park, Basingstoke is a well established business park on the M3/M4 corridor. MEPC have owned the Chineham Park since 1997 and we have continually invested in additional properties and improved amenities for our existing and new customers. We understand the issues that businesses face in a constantly changing economic climate and work with our occupiers to provide accommodation suitable to their needs with flexible lease terms. We also recognise the importance of recruiting and retaining skilled staff in a competitive employment market. We concentrate on making the business park a pleasant working environment with good facilities.