Sainsbury's millennium store at Greenwich peninsula

Sainsbury's recently completed millennium store on the Greenwich peninsula sets out to redefine supermarkets both in terms of environmental performance and appearance. Its low energy design features—such as a naturally lit sales floor, passive ventilation, combined heat and power plant and groundwater cooling system—help to deliver a building that uses up to 50% less energy than a similar-sized conventional store.This paper describes how civil and structural engineers contributed to this ground-breaking project by adapting both modern and historic structural solutions to develop, design and construct what should set a new benchmark for environmentally friendly and sustainable construction.