Plan for world’s tallest energy-positive tower in Birmingham

The £60m groundbreaking constructing can be clad in photo voltaic panels and would rise to 29-storeys containing almost 250 co-living residences.

Native developer and investor GNM Developments is proposing to redevelop a canalside web site within the Fuel Avenue Basin with the slender tower to be referred to as ‘The Narrowhouse’.

Designed by architects Broadway Malyan, the challenge will function greater than 4,000m2 of constructing built-in photovoltaics (BIPV) on the constructing facades.

When full, the constructing will seize extra power than the anticipated wants of residents, with the ambition for the surplus to be fed again into a neighborhood microgrid, permitting neighbours to learn from this sustainable power supply.

Topic to planning consent, work on The Narrowhouse would start in 2026 with completion scheduled for 2028.

Gerald Manton, managing director of GNM Developments, stated: “The Narrowhouse is greater than a constructing. It’s an announcement about the way forward for sustainable city residing.

“It is a once-in-a-generation alternative to place Birmingham as a worldwide chief in sustainable improvement.”

Hugo Fitzgerald, principal at Broadway Malyan, added: “The Narrowhouse is a pioneering proposal which we hope will set a brand new benchmark, each by way of energy-positive and tremendous slim constructing design.

“The proposals floor the event in its historical past. Re-using stacked brick from the unique constructing to kind the rostrum makes the constructing relatable and with the retention of the Toll Home, echoes the previous.”