
Arca, Birmingham
Exposed services has been adopted for the office floor provided new LED linear lighting, ducted fan coil units and power distributed within the office floors.


135 Park Street will comprise 13,616m² of Grade A accommodation located in London’s South Bank. 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 office HVAC consists of 4-pipe fan coil units and central fresh air ventilation systems. Hot water for space heating and chilled water for cooling is provided by multi-function air source heat pumps at roof level. Domestic hot water for office toilets and showers are served by water source heat pumps utilising the heating circuit as a heat source.

Exposed services has been adopted for the office floor provided new LED linear lighting, ducted fan coil units and power distributed within the office floors.

Sustainability is incredibly important for the Client and as such the building is BREEAM ‘Outstanding’, WELL ‘enabled’ Gold, alongside WiredScore Platinum. In addition, the Design for Performance approach is been adopted in order to minimise operational energy and hence carbon emissions.

A Grade II Listed Building in the St James’s conservation area, 8 Waterloo Place has been refurbished to offer 22,500ft² of high quality office accommodation and 8,700ft² of restaurant shell unit, for which Watkins Payne supplied building services engineering, BREEAM duties and energy consultancy to achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and an EPC B rating.

The Practice was responsible for designing and monitoring the refurbishment of the kitchen facilities.

A purpose-built student accommodation scheme at Dundee Street Edinburgh.

The project also involved the refurbishment of the reception space and improvement of the cycle store entrance and wayfinding at basement level.