Four decisions that shape everything else.
Most of what makes Junction Halls different was settled before a single piece of equipment was specified. These are the four choices everything else follows from.
We only look at buildings that already exist.
The shell stays. The slab stays. The footprint doesn't grow. Working inside an existing envelope, on land already zoned and serviced, is what removes years from a project and keeps us out of arguments about land nobody wanted developed.
It also changes what we are asking of a place. We are not proposing to build something new on open ground. We are proposing to use something that is already sitting there.
Small enough to sit comfortably where it is.
We are not trying to build the largest facility in the county. Halls are sized to the building and to what the local grid can comfortably carry, which keeps the project proportionate to its surroundings and far easier for everyone to live with.
Larger is not automatically better. A project that a community can live with beside one it fights for three years is not a close comparison.
We're still here in year ten.
We are vertically integrated by choice. We develop the site, we own the asset and we run it with our own people. For a landowner that means a long-term partner in monetising the power at your property, not a developer who entitles it and sells the problem onward.
It also means the people who made the promises are the people still on site when it matters whether those promises were kept.
No surprises on power or water.
Cooling runs on a closed loop, so there is no ongoing draw on the municipal water supply once it's charged. Where supplemental generation is needed it is low-emission and fuel-flexible, sized to the site rather than to an ambition for it.
Every commitment on this point is written down on our standards page.
What actually happens to the building.
A disused cold store is a common candidate, because the power and the structure are already there. Here is what changes, and what doesn't.
Tell us about the building.
Whether you own it, represent it, or simply live near it, we would rather hear from you early than late.