High-tech, innovative technologies have been used in the design of Penrith’s Booths store to ensure the building has minimal impact on the environment.
The Penrith store, which opens in November, will feature a heat recovery system – which collects heat from the fridges to provide hot tap water and under-floor heating. This highly innovative system considerably reduces the store’s natural gas consumption.
Penrith’s Booths will be the retailer’s fourth store to use a highly advanced refrigeration system that uses a low-impact natural refrigerant which replaces traditional greenhouse gas refrigerants. The use of this natural refrigerant, is currently used in less than five per cent of the UK’s supermarkets.
There will also be glass doors on the fridges that will keep the food fresh and provides a 45 per cent saving on energy. And the voltage within the store will be carefully monitored so that a consistent 220 volts is maintained – meaning excessive power is not wasted.
Rain water will be collected in underground tanks and used to flush toilets as well as operating washing machines.
Graham Booth said: “Booths feels strongly about the need to be sustainable in what we do and the environmental impact of our buildings is extremely important.”
Customers to the store will be able to see for themselves how the store is conserving energy via an in-store interactive touch screen ‘Energy Dashboard’ which provides information on the store’s different environmental features.
Richard Sykes, manager of Booths’ Penrith store, said: “I hope that when we open our doors in November we will have given the people of Penrith a store which they can be proud of – a great place to shop, a café to relax in, all within a building that is kind to the environment.”
Booths is currently recruiting general assistants and specialists for its Penrith store. For more information on how to apply, and to find out more about Booths, please visit recruitment.booths.co.uk