Site Location: Site Location: Gap Site at Bath Street and Pitt Street Plot: Plot: 50m x 50m Building Area: Building Area: 4000m 2 maximum Building Height: Building Height: 25m maximum Occupancy: Occupancy: 400 People maximum Office Requirement: › General Office Purpose › 70% Open Plan and 30% Cellular Full Disabled Access Materials and Energy should be produced locally
Scott Morrison (Structural & Architectural Engineer) Form and Fabric Samantha Dowling (Structural & Architectural Engineer) Materials Renewables Nicolas Levaudel (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering) Lighting HVAC Website Development Nicolas Soro (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering) Lighting HVAC Website Development
Legend: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineers All EngineersStructural & Architectural Engineers
Previously, site consisted of ‘The Temple Nightclub’ which burned down Existing landscape is extremely overgrown and abandoned Compromises of loose soil and lots of rubble with the vegetation growing through
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Energon Passive Office Building, Germany
1 Angel Square, Manchester
Compactness = floor area/volume More compact less heat losses Simple Compact Form Short Dimensions Orientation towards South
Open Plan Office Space Atrium Cellular Offices N
High levels of insulation > Walls < 0.15 W/m 2 K 'Thermal bridge free' construction Airtight building fabric > Maximum of 0.6 air changes per hour at 50 Pa (below and above atmospheric pressure) High performance windows with insulated frames > Glazing < 0.8 W/m 2 K Space Heating/Cooling Energy Demand is not to exceed 15kWh/m 2 of net living per year (an additional allowance for dehumidification for cooling) Primary Energy Demand is not too exceed 120kWh/m2 of floor area per year Thermal Comfort must be maintained throughout the year for all living areas at 25 ±2 °C
Timber › FSC Certified › No illegal sourced timber / got to be traceable Glazing › Low Emissivity Triple Glazed Transparent PV Glass Panels › PVGU › BIPV Concrete › Low Carbon Concrete › 50% recycled with GGBS › 50% recycled with PFA Steel › Recyclable up to 90% › Use of by-products when manufacturing the steel Insulation › Recycled Material › Natural Material
BIPV/PVGU, China
Low Carbon Concrete, Australia
Sustainability Measures to Consider Biomass and Biofuel Solar Thermal Collector PV CHP Ground/Air Source Heat PumpsGrey Water Harvesting Thermal Mass BEMS Feed-in-Tarriff Green Roof Ventilated Double Skin Facade
Lighting LEDFluorescent tube Low hours lm/W High hours lm/W CO2 Emission Lifecycle Efficiency
2 sorts of controlled ventilation system could be used : Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery (MVHR) : breathe fresh air in dry rooms and extract air in wet rooms HVAC
Single flow with heat pump water until 55°C HVAC