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The point, paddington Basin, London

Internal comfort is achieved predominantly by the use of chilled ceilings throughout with displacement ventilation supplied via floor grilles. This ensures a highly efficient means of controlling human comfort using an optimal combination of both radiant and air cooling. Other benefits over conventional air mixing systems such as fan coil units, is that the warmer used air is extracted away through the ceiling rather than locally re-circulated and re-treated. Internal office height has been designed to 2.9m floor to ceiling height instead of a more conventional 2.7m; this further enhances the performance benefits of displacement ventilation.

A high performance solar glass along with Bries Soliel shading systems ensures that solar gains are minimised whilst allowing the daylight benefits of floor to ceiling glazing. At the eastern end of the building and around the top floors where there are no external shading systems, internal permanent full height Venetian high performance blinds form part of the base design to limit solar gain.