South West and South Wales Awards
Best Commercial Workplace: 500 Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading
500 Brook Drive at Green Park in Reading was presented with the Best Commercial Workplace award at the South West and South Wales BCO awards on 13 May 2010.
The building comprises 143,000 sq ft of office accommodation over five storeys. The judges felt that the quality of the environment and the rationale behind the building’s organisation and layout set the project apart as exemplary.
Hoare Lea provided mechanical and electrical engineering, acoustics and vertical transportation consultancy services, together with sustainability and BREEAM duties. 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.
Midlands and East Anglia Awards
Best Corporate Workplace: Napp Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge
The regional winners for the Midlands and East Anglia BCO awards were announced at Birmingham Town Hall on Wednesday 12 May 2010.
Napp Pharmaceuticals on Milton Road in Cambridge was named Best Corporate Workplace, with the judges praising it as ‘exceptional, standing head and shoulders above the rest’. They applauded the simplicity and quality of the site and the execution of development as key factors in winning the award, and noted that it was an extremely attractive, high-quality building both externally and internally.
Hoare Lea provided the base build and Cat A and Cat B services design which included displacement ventilation and static chilled beam system (DVSCH) to control indoor temperature in accordance with the most recent BCO office guidance.
Other key features of the services strategy were LTHW perimeter heating to the façade areas to offset the heat losses from the full height glazing, high efficiency gas boilers, and high efficiency chillers with variable speed chilled water pumps, and PIR/daylight lighting controls.
The project has achieved a ‘Good’ BREAAM rating, an EPC ‘B’ rating, and achieved an average carbon reduction of 28% compared to the Building Regulations part L national building target rating. The EPC rating and carbon reductions are especially impressive given that the building still retains a high percentage of glazing providing excellent daylight throughout.
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