The building, which has been awarded the highest ever BREEAM score of 87.55%, opened for business this month. It is a £5.5 million, 45,000 sq ft development of managed green offices for small, medium and large sized businesses, and features many novel techniques for reducing resource consumption and CO2 emissions.
“The challenge for the design team was to prototype an energy efficient building that would stand up to the scrutiny of the institutional finding markets,” said architect Richard Roberts, of RIO Architects.
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The project team used a fresh design approach. An engineering design exercise, led by King Shaw Associates, produced an environmentally friendly and commercially sustainable prototype building design which was then applied to the specific plot at Thorpe Park. IES Consulting were engaged to test and validate the internal comfort conditions and energy performance of the design. This gave assurance to the client and all involved in the design process that the building would offer the energy savings predicted and would still meet the comfort and operational performance parameters required.
”The contribution IES Consulting made to the project was invaluable, it provided independent validation that our design would work as predicted without committing to bricks and mortar,” commented Doug King, Principal of King Shaw Associates, the Environmental and Building Services Consultants.
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