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Home News Overbury achieves the UK's first SKA V2 rating and Net Zero Aligned fit out at the Eden building
Monday, 23rd March 2026
The fit out of the first occupier ready suite within Muse's award winning Eden building in Salford’s New Bailey, is first past the post to secure the industry’s updated SKA V2 rating and Net Zero Aligned fit out, setting a new benchmark for low carbon workplace delivery.
Part of Muse’s award winning Eden, the highly sustainable £36 million, 115,000 sq. ft, 12-storey workplace in Salford’s New Bailey, the first floor fit out spans 5,134 sq ft. The workspace has been designed as a move in ready solution for SMEs and growing businesses. It provides 50 fixed workstations alongside a boardroom, meeting rooms, kitchen and dining space, and booths for focused work and touchdown areas to support collaboration. The suite takes its place alongside TLT LLP and BDO UK, who have made Eden their home.
The scheme demonstrates how next generation standards can be implemented in practice. SKA V2 introduces a more rigorous, outcomes based approach, prioritising embodied carbon reduction, circular material use and measurable environmental performance across the full project lifecycle. Achieving Net Zero Alignment requires further validation, with the fit out meeting defined carbon thresholds and aligning with the trajectory of the UK Net Zero Building Standard.
Delivering against both standards required early stage carbon modelling, close supply chain engagement and a fundamentally different approach to specification and procurement. Material choices were driven by carbon impact, with an emphasis on reuse, responsible sourcing and designing for disassembly, while maintaining programme certainty and commercial viability.
This level of integration reflects the strength of partnership across the project team, including Muse, Cundall, Chroma Consulting, Savills, Zero Zero One, Atelier Ten and Verte working collaboratively to evidence performance rather than intent.
As one of the first projects to adopt both SKA V2 and Net Zero Alignment, the fit out highlights the increasing complexity of delivering against evolving sustainability standards and the expertise required to achieve it successfully. It also signals a clear shift in expectations from occupiers and developers, with greater emphasis on verified carbon outcomes, future regulatory alignment and long term asset performance.
Credits: Eden was delivered by ECF - a partnership between Muse, Homes England and Legal & General.
Image credit: Muse