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The point, paddington Basin, LONDON

VALUE: £50m
ARCHITECT: Terry Farrell & Partners
CLIENT: Chelsfield plc (PDCL)
EXPERIENCE: Building Services and Environmental Design

Building Services Design for New Headquarters of a major telecom company. This is a high specification building fundamentally conceived as a speculative office development with a low energy design with incorporates displacement ventilation and chilled ceilings throughout with perimeter passive chilled beams to cater for solar loads. The base design has however been enhanced to cater for Orange, who have taken up The Point as their New London Headquarters.

The main features include:

Highly efficient façades incorporating external brie-soleil
Central atrium the enhances central plan daylight levels
Displacement ventilation
Chilled ceilings and perimeter passive chilled beams
High efficiency plant and systems
Greatly enhanced back-up power systems)