In the heart of the Birmingham city centre overlooking the cathedral this 65,000ft² refurbished office space is positioned in a prominent location. The development includes a basement, lower ground, upper ground, 1st floor to 9th floor with a combination of retail, amenity and office Cat A and Cat B offerings.
The entrance to the building is off Temple Row into a double height reception which is luminated with the use of curve lighting wrapping around the columns highlighting the rich colour palate of textures on the finishes and furnishing.
Exposed services has been adopted for the office floor provided with new LED linear lighting, ducted fan coil units and power distributed within the office floor void. Air source heat pump (ASHP) provide the heating and cooling to the space utilizing low carbon technology. Upper floors (3rd to 8th floor) are served from a central air handling unit (AHU) with heat recovery. The AHU provide demand ventilation with the use of the on-floor CO2 sensors controlled via the building management system.
The basement level provides end of trip facilities with male and female showers and changing facilities, along with secure cycle storage.
The refurbishment work is targeting BREEAM “Excellent” certification, and the office floors has achieved an “A” rated Energy Performance Certificate (EPC).
32 Duke Street in the heart of St James’s, the contemporary development known as The Marq comprises mixed use accommodation, with A1 and A3 retail units across ground and basement floors and 35,460ft2 of office space on six upper levels.
When Coverys signed the lease to occupy the sixth floor at 1 Creechurch Place in London EC3A, Watkins Payne were appointed building services consultants for Cat B fitout of the 16,000ft2 office areas, providing MEP systems and IT cabling design.
The 7,600ft² area of 7 Bermondsey Street near London Bridge Station was refurbished to high quality office accommodation, for which Watkins Payne supplied building services engineering and vertical transportation engineering. The refurbished area is spread across basement and ground floor.
The development at Portland House will comprise circa 300,000ft² of primary office led accommodation together with retail and amenity space.
10 Fetter Lane needed some freshening up for marketing, so the first floor offices were to be modernised as a show stopper with a contemporary exposed services design and improved floor to ceiling height.