500 Brook Drive beat off competition from six outstanding office buildings from across the UK to win the ‘Best Development Outside London’ category at Property Week’s Offices Awards.
The awards held in London on 19 October, celebrate outstanding performance in the UK office sector by individuals and companies.
Located at Green Park in Reading, 500 Brook Drive comprises 143,000 sq ft of office accommodation over five storeys. Hoare Lea provided mechanical and electrical engineering, acoustics and vertical transportation consultancy services, together with sustainability and BREEAM duties.
Pelle Christensen of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals said that “we choose Brook Drive on the basis of its excellent location and the opportunity to create an outstanding working environment for our staff”.
Designed to achieve a BREEAM rating of ‘Excellent’, the building’s mechanical engineering systems include four-pipe fan coil units throughout the ground-floor office areas, with chilled beams and displacement ventilation serving the remaining four storeys. The building's electrical engineering systems include a DALI dimmable fully controllable lighting installation with daylight linking, photocells at the floor perimeters and presence detectors.
For more information on the awards go to:
http://offices.propertyweek.com/shortlist/
