rooms, partitions and so on wherever they decide to. Each floor will be able to accommodate two tenants, making a total of six, although larger tenancies will also be possible.


The floors are concrete planks, and the soffits have been left exposed, allowing for night-time purge cooling, which is a part of the environmental strategy. The exposed concrete will, says Hayden, retain ‘coolth’ in summer. ”The engineer and client perceived this as a very positive move, “ Hayden comments, because it gives additional


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height, ”which was important especially on the ground floor with the restricted floor to floor height.” With such a hard ceiling, there was evidently potential for acoustic problems. Scott Brownrigg has dealt with this by using soffits suspended acoustic rafts which contain sound-absorbent mats which reduce the reverberation. This approach uses far less material and therefore embodied carbon than a full ceiling system, while not affecting the perceived height. Shallow raised floors house essential


The ends of the wings now have vertical fins that reduce solar gain in the morning and evening


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