Completed 2005 Approaching zero CO², HEELIS accommodates up to 485 staff in 76,500 square feet of office space on a brownfield site at the heart of Brunel’s Great Western Railway complex. As with the 19th century engineering works, it is the roof that deals with climate modification. Northlights along each ridge are shaded by projecting photovoltaic panels; ventilation ‘snouts’ emerge to provide natural ventilation in summer. Daylight penetrates through a series of double-height spaces to ground floor offices which have an unusually generous ceiling height of 3.7m to ensure that both natural lighting and ventilation systems work efficiently.
FCB Studios
View this photo
Completed 2008 The intelligent design model at the Mountbatten research centre has been acheived via a number of key features: the use of the campus-wide CHP system, evaporative free cooling, naturally ventilated office spaces with underfloor pipework to aid in heating/cooling and water recycling, naturally lit clean rooms, exposed concrete soffits with thermal mass which stabilize temperature variations, solar control coatings on the windows and horizontal aluminium brise-soleils to reduce excessive solar gain rain water harvesting, and green and brown roofs which promote bio-diversity. The result is a building which the engineers predict will consume 65% less energy than a typical comparable scheme of this type.
View this photo
Comments