Costa launches new ‘Eco Pod’ store
The coffee chain unveiled the first ‘zero energy’ coffee shop building in the UK at Wrekin Retail Park.
Jim Slater, Managing Director of Costa UK and Ireland, said: “This is an exciting first for coffee shop and retail design here in the UK and has the potential to transform not just how we build new stores at Costa but the industry far more widely.”
”We wanted to explore new ways to serve quality coffee to our customers while managing our environmental footprint as responsibly as we can. Through a successful partnership with Hammerson, we have developed an outstanding new type of test bed building design which really does have the potential to make a massive difference if rolled out more widely.”
Costa has designed the building in partnership with Hammerson, the retail property specialist, which owns the retail park and facilitated the delivery of the new concept store.
“‘Zero energy’ is achieved through passive ventilation and innovative construction techniques which mean that the energy required to heat and cool the building is minimised and that the low amount of energy that is required for building temperature control will come from solar PV cells embedded in the specially curved roof, balancing out overall,” Costa said.
