Sustainability
20 Air Street
The project also involved the refurbishment of the reception space and improvement of the cycle store entrance and wayfinding at basement level.
11 Waterloo Place is located in St James’s London. The newly refurbished CAT A office space on the 1st floor is complete with amazing views of Big Ben and St James’s Park.
Many of the original architectural features have been maintained with full replacement of the on floor building services including new high efficiency LED lighting and lighting control system, local mechanical heat recovery ventilation system as well as the provision of brand new VRF heating and cooling installations. The services have been designed and installed allowing for a split tenancy on the floor
The project also involved the refurbishment of the reception space and improvement of the cycle store entrance and wayfinding at basement level.
The development is an 12 storey building comprising 13,475m2 (NIA) of office area over basement to eleventh floor and 141m2 of retail area located on ground floor.
The building at 55 Colmore Row has been refurbished to offer 150,000ft² of high quality office accommodation, for which Watkins Payne supplied building services engineering, vertical transportation engineering, BREEAM duties and energy consultancy to achieve an BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and EPC B rating.
The Practice was responsible for the design and site monitoring of the related mechanical, electrical and public health services installation.
The building services use a 4-pipe fan coil unit arrangement with various ventilation systems to suit the different use areas. Full building power back-up standby generation, UPS, security and access control and automatic blinds all formed part of the fit-out.
The New Zealand House comprises over 200,000ft² of space over two basement levels, ground to level 18