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The way in which society views offices and office space is changing. The global economic crisis has prompted reflection among both funders and developers, and the environmental performance of a building is essential. Meanwhile, the development of technologies to enable remote working has changed both work patterns and the interaction between people and their workplace. Some have even questioned the future of the bricks-and-mortar office itself.
At BuroHappold Engineering, we believe that while change is both inevitable and desirable, the long term future of the office is secure. New tenants in the technology, media and telecoms industries are leading the way in demanding new and different facilities, and in our increasingly digital age, people are more inclined to value both working in physical proximity to others and the importance of having a creative hub which underpins performance and ultimately generates wealth. We believe that technology cannot replace teamwork, and that the office provides the theatre of cooperation and knowledge sharing which stimulates individuals and drives whole economies forward. We are passionate about our role as designers enabling this transformation. BuroHappold has designed some of the most innovative and celebrated workplaces in the world, for global brand leaders operating in diverse fields from 2
broadcasting to retailing and utilities. Our award-winning team includes specialists ranging from investor advisers at the start of a project to facilities managers at the end, ensuring we can supply an integrated consultancy throughout the cycle, and create something extraordinary. We use our in-depth knowledge of the industry to push boundaries and achieve the maximum for our clients, and it is this commitment which sets us apart and adds real value. Our focus on specialist knowledge also means we really understand what our clients in the sector need. Combined with our passion for creativity and love of a challenge, we are in an ideal position to design future-ready solutions which offer not only cost savings but unsurpassed levels of environmental sustainability and performance. In turn this means that the companies we work with are able to attract and retain the best people, providing them with an
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inspiring and stimulating environment which promotes both collaboration and engagement. Diversity is another of our core strengths, and one which makes us a catalyst for positive change. With experience gained in a number of markets in the UK and around the world, BuroHappold is well placed to explore emerging trends and introduce them to our newer markets. Ways of working and design specifications can vary dramatically from country to country, and we make sure that all our clients gain from the depth and breadth of our expertise. Our work to date in the office sector demonstrates our commitment to delivering innovative and cost effective buildings that fully support the needs of each unique organisation which owns, develops and uses them, not just today but into the future.
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OUR EXPERIENCE BuroHappold Engineering’s award-winning work in the office sector illustrates our ability to deliver pioneering commercial buildings which also offer value for money, designed to fully support the needs of the companies that use them – both now and for decades to come.
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Genzyme Headquarters Cambridge, MA, USA
BBC Media Village London, UK
Vodaphone World Headquarters Newbury, UK
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White Square Moscow, Russia
One Angel Square Manchester, UK
National Bank of Kuwait Headquarters Kuwait
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masterplanning and regeneration, we deliver aesthetically pleasing, future-proof buildings designed to enhance the lives of the people who work in them.
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With experience extending across the globe, our landmark office schemes include projects such as the highly desirable and BREEAM ‘Excellent’ Palestra headquarters in London and the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh, which set the standard locally for architectural sustainability. With expertise also encompassing the transformation of existing assets, business district
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Our holistic, multi-disciplinary approach ensures we meet all our clients’ needs, from government and local planning requirements to fully sustainable design which will often exceed environmental targets – while reducing running costs in the longer term. From the latest ICT installations to flexible structural design and state of the art safety measures; we can offer expertise in everything.
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Heckscher Foundation for Children HQ New York, NY, USA Architect: Christoff Finio Architecture Image: Elizabeth Felicella
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THE KEY ISSUES How our holistic approach maximises value for our clients in the Commercial Office sector
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BUILDINGS AS GREEN ASSE TS
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MAPPING THE FUTURE
Raising the bar for sustainable design
Designing for optimum user experience while improving productivity and wellbeing
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Delivering projects on time and to budget, with whole-life value built in
Collaboration, teamwork and partnership – our winning approach
Reimagining existing assets and making them work for the future
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“For the client, the building is like a Greek temple. It is very simple in form, but exquisite in its expression and sophisticated in its execution – in its creation of space, in its use of sustainable services strategies and in its inherent structure.” Brian Swan, Kildare County Council Kildare County Council Headquarters 8
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TOMORROW ’S SUSTAINABILIT Y TODAY
At BuroHappold, we understand the value of energy; and how to deliver low carbon buildings to both meet and exceed internationally recognised targets. Certifying a commercial building as a green asset enhances the owner’s reputation as a sustainable employer, as well as reducing energy costs. We use our extensive experience in sustainable design and construction to deliver cost effective, high performance buildings to meet tomorrow’s needs today. So no matter what changes in environmental legislation are introduced, we put our wealth of knowledge to good use, helping developers select a ‘greening’ strategy which will both set a benchmark and retain the building’s ability to respond to future demands.
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Rather than simply responding with sustainable or renewable ‘add-ons’, we pride ourselves on working holistically, from materials choices at the planning stage, through design and construction to operation via a building management system, to deliver a total low carbon solution. We are also uniquely placed to track and improve the carbon footprint of our new commercial office projects, saving our clients both fuel and cost.
Our portfolio features two UK ‘green’ firsts: the Palestra building in London, which boasts the first fuel cell tri-generation system in the country, and the UK’s first zero carbon factory, the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in Sheffield.
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PALESTRA
London, UK
The RIBA award winning Palestra in Southwark, southeast London, is an example of efficiency and architectural vision. With quirkily angled perimeter columns supporting the structure, it has a top section that appears deliberately disjointed; floating atop the rest of the building. Offering outstanding commercial facilities, Palestra is one of the most recognisable office spaces in the city. Our original work on the building saw it exceed Part L regulations before they came into force. Its iconic double glazed facade helps to regulate heat gain and loss, while ensuring the maximum amount of daylight reaches the internal spaces. Our subsequent work upgrading the building for new occupants TfL (Transport for London) has improved the BREEAM rating from ‘Very Good’ to ‘Excellent’. Our modifications included a more efficient chiller system, daylight sensors to reduce lighting use, grey water harvesting and fresh air controls with presence detectors, shutting down ventilation when rooms are unoccupied. In reducing Palestra’s CO2 footprint through innovative improvements, our engineers have kept the building’s sustainable legacy alive; proving that through intelligent design and development buildings can remain ahead of the game. Client Phase One Blackfriars Investment Ltd / Royal London Asset Management Architect Phase One Alsop Architects Client Phase Two TfL Architect Phase Two Pringle Richards Sharratt Image Christian Richters
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5 BROADGATE London, UK
Destined to become one of the largest single office buildings in London’s financial district, 5 Broadgate has been designed to suit bespoke end user requirements. Measuring nearly 100,000m2, the building design answers a complicated, testing brief to satisfy the needs of its future occupant, UBS. When completed, 5 Broadgate will be a notable part of the capital; replacing both 4 and 6 Broadgate, which were built in the 1980s. With purposefully simple geometry to create an impression of solidity, the design of 5 Broadgate focuses on the quality of details and materials. As part of the planning processes our material sustainability specialists completed whole life carbon modelling to enable predictions of emissions for the entire lifecycle of the building. A key finding was that almost 60% of the construction and maintenance carbon footprint would be created by the structure and facade themselves. In response to this modelling
a series of detailed ‘hot spot’ studies were completed, assessing the viability of various measures that could deliver cost neutral reductions to the carbon footprint associated with the construction of frame and facade.
efficiency structural elements. In total these actions delivered a 4% reduction in the carbon footprint of the construction, which equates to savings of 3700 tonnes of embodied carbon CO2e, the equivalent of over 50 articulated tanker loads of fuel.
Working with the supply chain and through innovative design measures four of these recommendations were implemented; ranging from achieving advanced low carbon concrete mixes to the designing of non-conventional high
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SAMBA FINANCIAL GROUP HQ
King Abdullah Financial District Riyadh, KSA
At the heart of the new King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh will stand the impressive SAMBA head office. A key marker in the district’s masterplan, the building will represent a benchmark in sustainable architecture and engineering. Creating a 40-storey sustainable building in the desert heat presents numerous challenges. Our team’s extensive experience working in the region has enabled the project to move from concept to design in just 12 months, as well as achieving a projected LEED ‘Gold’ rating. Central to the building is its futuristic ‘Power Tower’, a 70m spire sitting atop the 170m skyscraper. The tower harnesses Saudi sunshine and concentrates it onto photovoltaic panels. This solution is sustainable to its core – water and recycled exhaust air keep the panels cool and working efficiently. The building’s slender form required considerable structural engineering experience to address concerns over structural fatigue. By modelling it in a wind tunnel our team developed a damper device for the spire, while our modelling experts optimised the facade of the main building, minimising heat from the sun while maximising daylight and views. With energy efficient air conditioning contributing to reduced electricity SAMBA will cut their energy use by a predicted 25% compared to conventional buildings. Office spaces and sky gardens revolve around a full-height atrium, creating a light and airy place to work that sets new standards of sustainability for Riyadh. Client Riyadh Investment Company Architect Foster + Partners, Gensler, RTKL, FX Fowle Image BuroHappold Engineering
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BUILDINGS AS GREEN ASSETS
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At the forefront of research, development and innovation BuroHappold strives to remain at the forefront of innovation. Our physics team have been looking at the integration of phase change materials (PCMs) into buildings – typically materials which can be used in walls and ceilings to absorb heat, leading to a reduced use of mechanical heating and cooling.
they require no maintenance. They work like an ice cube in a drink – aluminium finned tubes filled with PCM, melt within a certain temperature range to absorb heat. This controls room temperature in the same way that melting ice controls the temperature of a glass of water.
Particularly suited for use in lightweight construction, their impact is similar to that of adding thermal mass to the building. And, unlike air conditioning systems,
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“Access for all is a notion central to the nature of a Local Authority. It is far more than a simple physical requirement, it must pervade all aspects of how the building process is approached and expressed, in order to ultimately facilitate service delivery from therein.” Brian Swan, Kildare County Council Kildare County Council Headquarters 14
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BRIDGING THE GAP BE T WEEN OCCUPANT AND DESIGN
The design quality and environment of any workplace has a direct impact on the performance of the people who work there. We create buildings with the wellbeing and productivity of the end user in mind, while keeping construction and running costs down. BuroHappold is at the forefront of research into the way in which design influences the performance of a building, using computational analysis to explore the relationship between people and their workplace. Open spaces, atria and sky gardens all impact positively, providing fresh air and daylight, and bringing the outside in. Optimised floor to ceiling heights and limited floor plate depths maximise use of space, permit easy to maintain services, help keep heating costs down and facilitate good acoustics – in all these areas, our extensive knowledge has enabled us to incorporate practical cost-saving measures with a happy environment.
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Building costs can be split into a ratio of 1:5:200, relating to the actual construction cost, maintenance and operation, including salaries. Looked at in this light, the most important element in the longer term is the user experience, so we ensure smart design, allowing the building to ‘learn’ from the way it is used. Our research has shown that designing appropriate spaces reduces absenteeism and staff turnover. As such, we create spaces which not only allow for maximum productivity, but also reduce burnout – as often seen in the financial services industry – by incorporating areas which encourage lateral thinking and relaxation. We work hard to optimise factors such as soundscape, air volumes, light levels and temperature, promoting occupant wellbeing.
Engineering smart buildings goes well beyond the initial design. We take our schemes further by incorporating advanced Building Management Systems to minimise energy consumption, and work with the end user to ensure our clients fully understand how to get the most from their building. We are acknowledged experts in this field, and a leading member of the BSRIA (Building Services Research and Information Association) ‘Soft Landings’ group. As pioneers of post-occupancy evaluation, we have sponsored doctorates in this field for over a decade, and we feed our knowledge of how buildings are used back into the design process, enabling continuous improvement.
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GENZYME HEADQUAR TERS
Cambridge, MA, USA
The Genzyme Corporation Headquarters features a number of innovative techniques for sustainable use, as well as a design to give occupants more control over their environment. Designed ‘from the inside out’ our engineers created an interior space to maximise efficient working. A full height atrium draws light deep into the structure, where reflective surfaces – including a ‘light chandelier’ made up of 768 prismatic plates – create a bright, vibrant atmosphere.
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The building’s double facade features 1,600 operable windows to reduce the need for air conditioning. Rainwater tanks on the roof save potable water, while waste steam from a nearby power plant is used to run the building’s heating system. As a result of our innovations a 2005 post occupancy survey of Genzyme employees showed productivity had increased, with an estimated cash value of $5m per year. It was also calculated that the full cost of investing in energy efficient measures would be repaid within five years.
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Situated on a former brownfield site, the Genzyme building was the 13th ever to receive the LEED Platinum award, and the largest at the time. Its radical energy saving strategies have formed the basis of many ‘green’ building techniques, with Genzyme named as one of the world’s most sustainable companies. Client Lyme Properties / Genzyme Architect Behnisch Architekten Image Anton Grassl
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BAR WA NE W CAIRO
Egypt
Barwa New Cairo is an ambitious project to develop a new sustainable community located to the east of Cairo. As part of the project BuroHappold provided detailed masterplanning across four different business parks, with each providing a unique identity to attract a different mix of tenant. Each park aimed to segregate cars from pedestrians and explored ways to integrate a combination of usages to develop a sense of place. BuroHappold then developed the design for two buildings, providing over 110,000m2 of office space that will create a
distinctive landmark for the development. These buildings are arranged around courtyards that each incorporate a ‘misting tower’, spraying a fine mist of water at high level which evaporates instantly, cooling the dry air by several degrees and causing it to drift downwards. Wind baffles at courtyard entrances help retain the cooled air coming down from the mist tower to provide comfortable conditions within these spaces during the day. In the evenings and during winter the baffles can be opened to take advantage of cool breezes, and the tower turned off. The
inclined external facades reduce the solar gains ensuring BuroHappold’s design equates to a LEED Silver rating, with the office buildings providing some of the most energy efficient workspaces in the region. Client Barwa Architect Foster + Partners Local Consultant ECG Image BuroHappold Engineering
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WESSEX WATER
Bath, UK
With a brief that demanded a building that was an exemplar of environmentally sensitive design, Wessex Water wanted an office that would help deliver improved services and operational efficiencies, as well as house 580 staff. Wessex Water Operations Centre was designed to be the greenest office in the UK at the time it was constructed, and consumed less than one third of the energy required to power a standard headquarters building. The design team ensured that sustainable design lay at the heart of the scheme, considering elements such as building orientation, materials used in construction and the building form. The headquarters is located at the edge of a designated area of natural beauty, so it is designed to be low-lying and stepped to reflect the natural contours of the site, while ensuring optimal views over the Limpley Stoke Valley. The orientation of the building ensures minimal solar gain, while maximising natural daylighting and ventilation. The internal design incorporates three wings, linked by an internal street, which actively bring people together as they access the restaurant, cafĂŠ and meeting rooms. A number of energy-efficient services were installed, including water recycling, waste reduction, enhanced biodiversity and measures to reduce car use. Wessex Water Headquarters achieved the highest ever BREEAM rating for a commercial office building when it opened in 2000. Client Wessex Water Architect Bennetts Associates Image BuroHappold/Mandy Reynolds
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WEXFORD COUNT Y COUNCIL OFFICES
Wexford, Ireland
Designed to work in harmony with its environment, Wexford County Council Offices uses minimal carbon and maximises the possibilities for natural daylight and ventilation. With planted areas and natural daylight throughout, our team helped create an optimum atmosphere as well as a highly productive working environment. The atria ensure that everywhere is close to natural light, while the screen-printed glass facades increase solar shading, reduce glare, and provide uninhibited views. Specialist glass coatings also improve insulation. Solid concrete internal walls and floors which absorb heat during the day and release it at night, adding natural heating and reducing the need to expend energy.
Our structural and facade experts worked together to find a low energy solution for lighting the building at night. During the day the mass of the building appears solid, reflecting colour from the sky. After dark, however, this is reversed and the inner layers of the building are revealed. Client Wexford County Council Architect Robin Lee Architecture in association with Arthur Gibney & Partners Image BuroHappold Engineering
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BuroHappold and Reading University are currently collaborating in research to understand what it is about a building that improves the performance of both individuals and organisations.
With no one right way to run a business, or indeed organise one’s life, much of the challenge lies in understanding this diversity and enabling a building to support it. Rather than, for example, telling people not to smoke or eat chocolate, it’s about how the building design can influence and support such decisions subconsciously. Our extensive case studies in this area are documenting what is valuable about buildings, what makes them work well, and which behaviours – both positive
and negative – are partially driven by the environment itself. We are looking at the physical parameters of the space, the sensory experience of each building or office, and examining users’ personal experiences through diaries, cognitive tests and physiological measurements. In understanding the range of experiences which people value in a building, we can then aid our clients by guiding them as to what it is possible for the building itself to help them achieve.
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MAPPING THE FUTURE
ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE SPACES THAT TOUCH THE EAR TH LIGHTLY Sustainable development combines resource efficiency, long term asset and risk management, holistic business innovation and the respect of people, to ensure that we do more with less, helping our clients and communities create a built environment fit for the future. Urban development is taking place at a scale and speed never achieved before and needs to be adaptable to changing climates and environments. Existing cities are seeking to remain competitive and economically viable in an increasingly global marketplace. The creation and delivery of new highquality, functional urban environments is a complex process, demanding inspirational vision combined with an understanding of the present and historic context. At
BuroHappold we are pioneering the design of low-energy, high performance and modular forms of building. We are also continuing to examine and identify new and more responsible ways to limit our use of natural resources – adopting more efficient approaches, seeking better ways to move people, products and waste around and encouraging new and improved technologies to meet existing needs.
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As engineers we believe that innovation is central to the development of efficient, flexible urban environments. Working in partnership with our clients, we create accessible and sustainable developments, which meet the needs of today’s residents, while safeguarding the places that we create for future generations to come.
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GREATER LONDON AUTHORIT Y SUSTAINABILIT Y STUDY
London, UK
London is leading the way towards low carbon energy with the Mayor’s Energy and Carbon Mitigation Strategy. The aim is to deliver 25% of the city’s energy from decentralised sources by 2031, helping to fight against climate change. We were commissioned to investigate the best options to help achieve the milestone. As part of our investigations we teamed up with Camco Clean Energy to evaluate the technical, economic and deployment potential for renewable and low-carbon
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energy in the UK’s capital. Notably, this is the first ever ‘bottom up’ approach to decarbonising London – looking at what is actually possible rather than setting an arbitrary, all too often theoretical, target. From determining how many roofs in London are south facing and sloped for photovoltaics to calculating the areas where there is enough heat demand to justify decentralised energy, our research has covered a great many aspects. Our analysis also delved into the detailed
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possibilities for the technical roll out of the London Plan, developing cost-conscious models to play out possible economic scenarios surrounding energy for the next 30 years. The result is discovering the perfect balance between saving carbon and saving money for a sustainable future. Client Greater London Authority Image ©2009 Microsoft Corporation and its data suppliers
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ONE ANGEL SQUARE
Manchester, UK
In 2009 the Co-operative Group commissioned a new 400,000 sqft, 16-storey office building in Manchester to provide a modern working environment and facilities which will allow greater freedom for flexible working by its staff. The project stipulated demanding sustainability targets using a building energy strategy, developed through extensive research into UK and European benchmark buildings, as the key to minimising environmental impact. Our team used 3D BIM technology extensively to coordinate the structural engineering, architecture and building services, as well as the basis of energy models, ensuring an efficient and integrated design process. BIM was also used to develop fly-through films and animations to communicate ideas to the client and within the construction team.
A key component of the carbon reduction measures is the installation of a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system. Powered by rape seed oil grown on the Co-operative’s own farmland, the CHP will enable the company to control the majority of their own heat and power supplies. Setting a new benchmark for commercial office design, the project succeeds in translating the client’s ethical approach to society and the environment in their business through their commitment to deliver a truly outstanding building. The project is set to be one of the first office buildings to receive a BREEAM ‘Outstanding’. Client Co-operative Group Limited Architect 3DReid Image Daniel Hopkinson
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AMERICAN EXPRESS HEADQUAR TERS
Brighton, UK
The new American Express Headquarters in Brighton is designed to help the company cope with the high-tech demands of 21st century commerce. A thoroughly modern building, it will provide capacity for 3000 staff, alongside a staff restaurant and shops. With cost and planning restrictions, the site required an inventive solution to ensure its success as the flagship building for a financial giant.
frame of the office building. We proposed a novel tube-in-tube composite column to minimise their size and maximise the workable space inside the open plan offices, meaning more workstations and more staff. Efficient design of the structure led to more of the construction budget being available for items such as the facade and finishes, resulting in a more valuable project.
Through a close design relationship with both the architect and the building services engineers, our experts were able to maximise the efficiency of the structural
Set in a valley, the sloping nature of the site and the deep basement challenged the construction of the substructure. Our team investigated a number of
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feasible options, allowing adequate provision in the cost plan and enabling prospective contractors to be aware of the construction implications. The site’s deep layers of weathered chalk also impacted the foundation solution. A bored pile wall system limits movement in surrounding buildings and infrastructure, and saved both money and time during construction. Client American Express Services Europe Ltd Architect EPR Architects Image Jim Stephenson
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TECHNICAL INSIGHT
At the forefront of research, development and innovation
Concern about climate change runs high in the general population, as well as among business leaders and politicians. Almost nine in ten people accept that the climate is changing, and almost half are extremely concerned by the implications, according to the 2007 survey on behalf of DEFRA by IPSOS MORI: ‘Tipping Point or Turning Point – Social Marketing and Climate Change’. Furthermore, a third of UK businesses have been significantly affected by extreme weather between 2007 and 2010, with increased rainfall and flooding.
BuroHappold’s design for One Angel Square in Manchester achieved the highest possible environmental targets, including BREEAM ‘Outstanding’, and ‘A’ ratings for both its Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), and Display Energy Certificate (DEC). This was no accident – our environmental input on this project was informed by extensive research on design for climate change. We undertook a two-part study for the Co-operative Group, which looked at how we can use passive design measures in
buildings, such as thermal mass, solar shading, photovoltaic panels, rainwater collection, natural ventilation and light wells, to reduce carbon emissions and in so doing, help prevent further carbonrelated climate change. The second aim of the study was to assess how buildings can cope better with the impact of extreme weather itself. This could mean identifying methods to respond appropriately to higher temperatures – such as increased solar shading – or greater rainfall, where
measures might include roof design to cope with increased run-off, as well as flood protection in low-lying areas. With knowledge dissemination of good practice being one of the funding requirements for this research, our goal is to share our findings on other schemes so all management teams can benefit from both constructing their buildings for climate change and educating the occupants about carbon saving measures which they themselves can help implement.
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DELIVERING BEST VALUE
At BuroHappold we believe in creating elegant, buildable designs which take the best from cutting edge technology and deliver value across the lifespan of the building. By spending time with our clients at the outset, we design holistic solutions which benefit from the full range of our engineering disciplines, and ultimately save most clients both time and money. Engaging with our clients, fully defining the brief and pre-empting problems from the outset characterises our approach. Changes in the commercial sector market, with new types of client and new demands means we need to provide a fresh response – but with our wealth of experience in the sector, we do not need to reinvent the wheel. We look harder at our deliverables to ensure our clients get best value, and we have whole life value specialists who apply rigorous life cycle costing to all our proposals. We are passionate about the role of the engineer in delivering spaces which both transform and inspire.
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A large part of our brief is to make sure our designs are simple and buildable as well as elegant and flexible, and we understand that by standardising our design and making it modular, we increase the potential for off-site prefabrication, which saves both time and money and helps guarantee quality. Our experience to this end includes groundbreaking modular systems for residential, hotel and student accommodation, as well as components such as risers and plant rooms, and aircraft piers for BAA. We are ahead of the
game in our use of integrated design and modelling packages, which helps us spot problems, coordinate better, reduce risk and enhance competitiveness. Never afraid to challenge convention, we concentrate our efforts into making sure our clients get the best designed, most flexible and ‘greenest’ office space possible for their investment, on time and to budget.
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INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST AND MAIN PRESS CENTRES
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, London, UK The largest structure in the Olympic Park, the International Broadcast and Main Press Centres Complex required a truly integrated approach to achieve its successful delivery in budget and on time for handover to LOCOG to commence the fit out in summer 2011. Working as part of the Carillion Building Limited design team BuroHappold was engaged to deliver a full suite of engineering services for the Complex, which would become home to 20,000 print and broadcast staff and 1,000 support staff during the Games. Delivering these giant facilities within the main Olympic Park was a key feature of the London 2012 bid: despite location
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changes, the philosophy of a media centre integrated within the main Park was retained. The 160,000m2 complex was designed to reduce carbon emissions by 20% against current building regulations, which was achieved through the combination of a bioclimatic design, passive chilled cooling beams with displacement ventilation, 500m2 of photovoltaic panels and a smart Building Management System. The early appointment of the installation contractor allowed us to take full advantage of the time and labour savings associated with prefabrication and offsite testing of key plant and equipment. The building services systems were designed to
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Tier 3 levels of resilience to ensure that broadcast continuity was guaranteed. Having successfully housed news teams from around the globe during the summer of 2012, in legacy the complex will now be turned into a combination of media studios, university facilities and a new digital academy. With office space for technology start-ups and a massive data centre, it will generate up to 6,000 jobs, creating a new technology quarter for East London. Client ODA Contractor Carillion Building Limited Architect Allies and Morrison, RPS Image ODA
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VODAFONE WORLD HEADQUAR TERS
Newbury, UK
Vodafone’s headquarters in Newbury, UK, brought 3,000 local staff into one location for the first time. With the plan to move from over 60 disparate buildings into one central location the project to create the company’s new landmark needed to run especially smoothly. Energy efficiency was high on the agenda. As a new building the design team could take advantage of the latest technologies and techniques to create a highly energy efficient office. Along with an integrated transport strategy, the new complex is set into the landscape around a series of lakes, which control storm water run-off.
Bridges connect the seven buildings that make up the complex in Shaw, on the outskirts of the town. The location of each building on the site was chosen after studies into prevailing winds, in order to maximise the potential to use natural ventilation and reduce the burden on the chilled beam air-conditioning system. Vodafone’s World Headquarters reflects its position as a world leading company. Integration with its surroundings enables maximum benefit to be gained from the location, while technological interventions work seamlessly into the building with environmental sensitivity. Client Vodafone Airtouch plc Architect Fletcher Priest Architects Image BuroHappold Engineering / Adam Wilson
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LYNE HILL REDE VELOPMENT
Staffordshire, UK
This ground engineering project was designed to investigate the land conditions prior to the redevelopment of the old Lyne Hill Industrial Estate for mixed commercial use. Our ground and environmental engineers were asked to provide data to allow the design of the new building foundations, identify potential ground contamination risks, and outline any remedial strategy, with its associated costs. A key element of this work included addressing objections from the Environment Agency regarding a proposed new petrol station by demonstrating through a detailed investigation of groundwater levels that the storage tanks would not pose a risk to water resources. Our experts also established that a potential buried asbestos risk was in fact very localised, and therefore we managed to avoid onerous additional health and safety measures during the subsequent investigation and earthworks. Finally, we effectively pooled resources by combining the geotechnical and geoenvironmental elements, avoiding the need for multiple investigations, while also incorporating tested and proven remedial works findings previously undertaken by others. In total, our solutions provided our client with significant cost savings, which they could then spend on maximising their new development. Client Northcreek Estates Image Š2012 Google (left), Townscape Solutions (right)
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For this prestigious project in London’s fashionable Mayfair, BuroHappold had to think laterally, coming up with an innovative plan to maximise the planning envelope by incorporating an extra storey on this highly constrained, triangular demolition site. With the existing building removed, the proposal was to construct a new development with one single-storey basement sitting below two separate commercial buildings – one of seven storeys, and one of three. To create its triangular form, our specialists needed to design in numerous bespoke elements. Our holistic vision, integrating the structural and building services elements, enabled us to minimise the floor construction zone and introduce an additional level. We specified cellular steelwork floor beams, allowing the building services to pass through, and in so doing succeeded in overlapping the structural and building service zones. Our structural engineers designed in bi-steel concrete-filled cores for stability, which provided the added advantages of allowing both speedy construction and thinner walls, resulting in time savings and creating more lettable space. We resourcefully used one of the cores to support the tower crane on site, allowing it to be easily removed without the need to fill in the crane slab voids afterwards – once again demonstrating our commitment to adding value. Client Pembroke Real Estate Architect RHWL Architects Image RHWL Architects
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Understanding natural materials will always be the main challenge for ground engineers – but with increasing pressure to regenerate urban areas, geotechnical engineers find themselves facing new parameters.
Redundant infrastructure left in the ground, such as tunnels and service pipes, make it difficult to place new foundations, while old foundations which need to be reused are stiffer than new ones. This means they attract more load, spreading the weight of the building unevenly. At BuroHappold, we always seek to broaden our knowledge base and develop our expertise. We have carried out research into the behaviour of different foundations, to help our engineers know when it is both viable and desirable to reuse old foundations, saving our clients both time and money.
can adapt other elements of the building’s construction to work with the existing foundations. As well as time and cost savings, other client benefits include a reduction in carbon emissions as less new concrete is needed. Existing archaeology is also protected. Accelerating population growth and urban living means that the regeneration of cities will become even more commonplace. BuroHappold is playing its part in ensuring that we can make the best recommendations in terms of combining new, old and reused piles to optimum effect.
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We believe that teamwork is central to delivering an outstanding project. We always aim to work in partnership with our clients, to communicate and collaborate both internally and externally, and engage at all times with all project stakeholders. The success of any project depends on the ability of both project team members and external stakeholders to work well together, sharing ideas as the scheme progresses. We believe above all in building long term relationships, be it with architects, developers, estate directors or local authorities. The level of repeat work we win is testament to the success of this approach. Value takes many forms, and is both the hardest to define and arguably most
whole project team through use of this technology. Our clients benefit directly too, as better sequencing, logistics and scenario planning lead to improved efficiencies, and ultimately savings.
important deliverable in any project. The most obvious examples of value, time and cost savings, are most often gained by good communication at all levels leading to early problem resolution, risk avoidance and innovative solutions.
Throughout the process, we promise to engage closely with both clients and stakeholders to understand the requirements and translate this into social, economic and environmental solutions which will add value to the scheme, and produce the best designs for your project.
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LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC STADIUM
London, UK
Located in the heart of the Olympic Park, the Stadium forms the centre piece of the largest new park created in Europe for a century. BuroHappold worked as part of ‘Team Stadium’, an integrated design and construction team led by Sir Robert McAlpine, and including Populous as architects and HED as landscape architects: this collaboration of specialists enabled the creation of a simple superstructure with an innovative lightweight cable supported roof. The Stadium was designed so that it can be easily dismantled down from an 80,000 capacity to a 25,000 venue if required for its longer term use.
Sustainability played a key part in informing the Stadium’s design in order to meet the ODA’s high targets and priority themes. The energy consumed in manufacturing the Stadium’s elements was far less than other Olympic stadia due to its compact design; the London 2012 Stadium only used 10% of the steel used in the Beijing Olympics main stadium. Where possible the team reused existing materials; including reusing 4,000 tonnes of unwanted gas pipelines to construct the roof’s outer steel compression truss ring. The building services installation has also been designed to limit carbon emissions during operation.
Commitment, innovation and close collaboration between architecture, engineering and construction has resulted in an elegant, bold, efficient and sustainable stadium that reflects the Olympic vision to ‘build a better world through sport’. Client ODA Design and Build Contractor Sir Robert McAlpine Architect Populous Landscape Architect HED Image ODA
“The Olympic Stadium has been finished on time and under budget. To complete a complicated project such as this in less than three years is testament to the skill and professionalism of the UK construction industry. I would like to thank the Team Stadium consortium and all of the operatives for their hard work and commitment. It is thanks to them that we can today celebrate this huge milestone for the London 2012 project and be proud of what can be achieved by UK plc.” John Armitt ODA chairman
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RELIANCE GLOBAL HEADQUAR TERS
Mumbai, India
With a fast-track, 18 month design and build schedule, BuroHappold led a multinational fully integrated design team to deliver the full range of engineering services to the new Reliance Global headquarters in Mumbai. The nine-storey, 400,000 sq ft, highly sustainable facility, which includes commercial space, offices and two levels of underground parking, required us to provide structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), sustainability, lighting, security and traffic consulting engineering services, from our Bath, Mumbai and Los Angeles offices. With innovative ‘green design’ measures, the building is set to achieve a LEED ‘Gold’ rating.
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BALT YK TOWER
Poznań, Poland
Baltyk Tower is a new office development located in the historic Polish city of Poznań, and will be the first building designed by the international practice MVRDV architects in the country. The building will feature retail and a panoramic restaurant with a proposed one room hotel. From the very beginning teamwork was at the centre of the Baltyk project. The design team, which included MVRDV, BuroHappold and locally based Ultra Architects, was contracted directly by the client who had been looking for like-minded practices with an open approach. The team successfully worked together throughout the project using
a mixture of face to face meetings and remote communication; including video conferencing, screen sharing and file transfer services. Each discipline was coordinated using BIM and 3D modelling so that the whole team could understand each element of the design. BuroHappold’s work on the project included incorporating BREEAM requirements into the build; including undertaking a solar energy study for facade optimisation. Client Sophia Sp. z o.o. (a joint venture of Garvest and Vox Group) Architect MVRDV / Ultra Architects Image MVRDV
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Value and sustainability are two things all clients rightly demand, but they are also notoriously hard to define. Priorities need to be clear, the goals need to be viable, and the thoughts and ideas of the stakeholders may not have been fully presented.
This scenario often leaves both clients and the design team asking where to concentrate their efforts in offering both best value and sustainable design, within the project’s constraints. To help engage all stakeholders in thinking these vital issues through properly, we have developed an approach to define and manage the delivery of complex project requirements. We can then take these requirement rankings and build them into a document which can translate each item into a social, economic or environmental objective.
language and shared understanding of the intricacies of the project, build confidence and trust, and spot both opportunities and risks early on. Finally, it guides the design team with their decisions – and provides an audit trail of the value delivery process. Our methods include a combination of workshops and anonymous questionnaires, leading to a deeper understanding of the shared values held
by the group, and the areas of divergence and agreement within the project requirements. At all times, we seek to create a collaborative and constructive environment, where thinking outside the box is encouraged and we can develop a highly transparent framework for value and sustainability.
This holistic process enables us to integrate stakeholder values and expectations into the project brief, while defining and ranking their priorities. It means we can also develop a common
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Cities are the engines of growth. While the developing world is building new cities apace, the developed world – mainly Western Europe and North America – is crowded with existing buildings in its urban spaces which need to be intelligently refurbished to satisfy the commercial, social and sustainable demands of the future. Refurbishment makes sense. It not only costs less than redevelopment, making it commercially viable; it also uses far less embodied energy, leading to considerable ‘green’ savings. However, performance is paramount, and tenants need their spaces to be future-proofed and flexible, and to reflect increasing occupier densities. One of the main growth areas is Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT), which we feel will drive the next business cycle. As technology pervades our lives, these client groups are driven by brand identity, which sometimes goes hand
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in hand with an older building – while demanding extremely flexible needs which could not have been envisaged when these buildings were first designed, sometimes over a century ago. We are highly skilled at reimagining and intelligently reusing buildings. Starting with a thorough survey to understand the constraints and current performance levels, such as energy consumption, we map our findings onto the latest standards and develop a list of requirements and costs to upgrade the building.
With our wealth of experience in practical refurbishment, from heritage buildings to more recent upgrades, we are ideally placed to make sure our clients receive a transformation to meet the most discerning requirements.
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BASKER VILLE HOUSE
Birmingham, UK
Originally built in the 1930s as a new Civic Centre for Birmingham, Baskerville House is located next to one of the city’s most vibrant squares, and offers office accommodation over seven floors, with a health club in the basement. Careful and sympathetic refurbishment was vital for the development of this Grade II listed building in order to retain the striking art deco facade.
replacing the atria with two smaller entrance halls to provide an extra two floors, almost doubling the usable space – while making considerable savings for the client through calculating that some 30% of the planned column reinforcement was not actually needed. Client Targetfollow (Birmingham) Ltd Architect Rolfe Judd Image BuroHappold Engineering / Adam Wilson
Another chief consideration was to maximise lettable space. Before the refurbishment, four large atria reduced commercial space by around 60%. Our team worked closely with the architect to reconfigure the building’s footprint,
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MARCOL HOUSE
London, UK
The project to transform Marcol House saw a single office building constructed in the place of three existing buildings, maximising the lettable commercial office space. The ground floor unit on the corner of Regent Street was retained along with the Grade II listed facade; creating an attractive and individual commercial office building with ground floor retail space. A key challenge for the design team was the buildings location directly over the Victoria Line tunnel; necessitating a detailed geotechnical analysis to model the effects of the new piles and deeper basement and close collaboration with London Underground. The team further strengthened their collaboration skills by drawing the structure entirely 3D BIM, which enabled pre-construction coordination with mechanical and electrical subcontractor, minimising on site builderswork and waste.
The team had to consider innovative ways to implement time and cost saving solutions without impacting on the future flexibility of the development. Part of the new steel frame was designed, procured and constructed during the demolition phase for use as part of the facade retention, which saved some of the temporary works costs and minimised the construction programme. In addition we proposed re-using the existing steel columns within the facade and their footings, maximising the space on the floor plate and eliminating the need for new foundations over the underground tunnels. The floor plate has only four internal columns and relatively long spans which will enable a high level of future flexibility. Client Great Portland Estates Architect Flanagan Lawrence Images Flanagan Lawrence
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QUEEN SQUARE
Bristol, UK
The ÂŁ7.5m conversion of this Grade II listed building, which at the time comprised several individual offices and small industrial units, into a single mixed use development of 1,600m2 of office space and 34 apartments, with basement car parking, provided several challenges to our team. We had to retain the listed Georgian facade, along with two vaults in the basement structure and an original staircase, while designing a new structure to span over these vaults so they would not need to support their own weight, minimising the risk of weakening the existing masonry. Our client also wanted a column-free space, which is often a challenge in historic buildings, so our experts came up with
an innovative solution including a braced steel frame, with Westok beams to reduce the floor to ceiling height and integrate the building services into the structural depth, while also maintaining the same storey heights as imposed by the original Georgian facade. The complex shaping and large roof span led the design team to incorporate a steel-framed roof and timber rafters to support the roof cladding. Our client received a building they could be proud of, which incorporates the best of old and new, with all the features expected of a high-performance, modern, flexible office. Client Westmark Developments Architect Alec French Partnership Image Alec French Partnership
BAR TLE BOGLE HEGAR T Y (BBH ADVER TISING)
London, UK
As a leading player in the advertising world, brand and image are central to our client, BBH. Tasked with refurbishing their existing premises to create a more useable, modern, flexible office space, BuroHappold liaised closely with Urban Salon Architects to refresh the entrance lobby, rearrange the workspaces and dramatically convert the existing, ineffective atrium into a vibrant, modern, multifunctional space. The atrium is undergoing a full facelift, with new staircases designed to criss-cross the space, replacing the outdated circulation strategy. Its facade will be removed, to be replaced by a balustrade designed to increase the open feel of the building while adding value in terms of both its acoustic and aesthetic properties. Shaded from direct sunlight, but inviting ambient natural light, the atrium refit will further improve both the feel of the building and its carbon usage, thanks to our interventions. Our engineers have been instrumental to the multiple solutions found for this complex project. We worked closely across our specialist structural, mechanical, electrical and acoustic teams, as well as with the architect, contractor and client, to achieve the perfect synthesis from concept and design to construction. Client Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH LONDON) Architect Urban Salon Architects Image Urban Salon Architects
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MOR AY COUNCIL HEADQUAR TERS CAMPUS
Elgin, UK
As part of a team employed to transform a disused supermarket into a high grade, low emission headquarters for Moray Council in north-east Scotland, BuroHappold’s brief was to centralise over 20 scattered offices into a single low carbon building. With low energy design at the heart of the scheme, one key element was natural ventilation. This created several challenges for our building services specialists, who came up with original solutions to bring fresh air deep into the space. These included new perimeter ventilation
lights throughout, rooftop ventilators assisted by low energy ceiling fans, and the installation of north lights to bring daylight right into the building. Moray’s modern, flexible, open plan offices will benefit from extensive natural light and ventilation, and we have succeeded in improving the old supermarket’s Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating from G to an anticipated B. Client Moray Council Architect Bennetts Associates Image Keith Hunter Photography
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Always keen to be at the forefront of new developments, Mark Dowson, one of our sustainability engineers, has designed an innovative ‘Aerogel Solar Collector’ as part of the ‘Retrofit for the Future’ competition.
This solar collector can be installed on the southern facade of a building, preheating the air going into the property’s mechanical ventilation system, thus reducing heat loss to the outside. At six metres wide, the heater contains a highly insulating cover incorporating granular ‘aerogel’ insulation – a unique, translucent material with excellent insulation properties. During a seven-day controlled test during cold but sunny conditions, outlet temperatures up to 45oC were observed inside the collector, pre-heating the fresh air supply by up to 30oC. This enabled the dwelling to enjoy a very comfortable 2122oC internal temperature, even in cold weather – without using any auxiliary heating.
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AWARDS INDUSTRY RECOGNITION BuroHappold Engineering has won industry awards throughout its 40-year history. These recognise achievements across all our services and every sector in which we work. Our list of awards is now hundreds strong - those won since 2009 are presented below.
ACE Awards
Civic Trust Awards
Finalist: Building Services Large Firm 2010 57-59 Bread Street, Edinburgh, UK
Winner 2012 Wexford County Council Offices, Wexford, Ireland
AISC Award
CNBC Arabian Property Awards
2011 Winner: National Certificate of Recognition Indian Paintbrush Productions Studios, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2008 Winner: Best Property Abu Dhabi Tameer Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE
BREEAM Awards
Winner: Best Development Abu Dhabi Tameer Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2013 Winner: Offices Award One Angel Square, Manchester, UK
Winner: Best High Rise Development Abu Dhabi Tameer Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE
British Council for Offices
Dundee Institute of Architects
2012 Winner: Commercial Workplace Award No. 4 St Paul’s Square, Liverpool, UK
2011 Winner: DIA Supreme Award Hillcrest Group HQ, Dundee, UK
2010 Winner: Projects up to 2000m2 57-59 Bread Street, Edinburgh, UK
Winner: Best Public/Commercial building Hillcrest Group HQ, Dundee, UK
2009 Winner: Projects up to 2,000m2 Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority HQ, UK
Edinburgh Architectural Association
2006 Winner: Corporate Workplace Award HSE Headquarters, Bootle, UK
2010 Winner: Regeneration / Conservation Award 57-59 Bread Street, Edinburgh, UK Green Apple Awards for the Built Environment
Building Awards 2013 Shortlisted: Sustainable Project of the Year One Angel Square, Manchester, UK
2012 Winner: Bronze Level: Building Project – Private Sector The Co-operative Group, One Angel Square, NOMA, Manchester, UK
Carbon Trust 2009 Winner: Low Carbon Building Award Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority HQ, UK
Gulf States Building Awards 2008 Winner: Commercial Project ADIA Headquarters, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Cityscape Abu Dhabi Conference 2008 Winner: Commercial/Office Project Award (Built) ADIA Headquarters, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Middle East Architect Awards 2011 Winner: Commercial Project of the Year King Abdullah Financial District, Riyadh, KSA
New York Construction Magazine Award of Merit: Best Green Project 2008 National Audubon Society Home Office, New York, NY, USA
Winner: Award for Architecture Regional Agricultural Centre, Yorkshire Showground, UK RIBA Regional Awards
North West Property Awards 2012 Winner: Sustainability Award One Angel Square, Manchester, UK
2007 Winner: Architecture West Midlands The Cube, Birmingham, UK 2007 Winner: London Palestra, London, UK
Polish Union of Building Engineers and Technicians, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the General Inspector of Building Control Poland
2005 Winner: Worldwide Genzyme Headquarters, Cambridge, MA, USA
2011 Winner: Building of the Year British Embassy Warsaw, Poland
Roses Design Award
Property Week Awards
2011 Winner: Gold Award Commercial / Offices Building Dundee House, UK
2012 Winner: Sustainability Achievement Award One Angel Square, Manchester, UK
Scottish Design Awards
RAC Cooling Industry Awards
2012 Winner: Commercial / Offices Building Wexford County Council Offices, Wexford, Ireland
2012 Highly Commended: Air Conditioning / Heat Pump Project of the Year The Co-operative Group, One Angel Square, NOMA, Manchester, UK
Winner: Chairman’s Award for Architecture Wexford County Council Offices, Wexford, Ireland
Winner: Sustainable Design Hillcrest Group HQ, Dundee, UK
Regeneration and Renewal Awards
Commended: Commercial / Offices Building Hillcrest Group HQ, Dundee, UK
2012 Winner: Award for Sustainability One Angel Square, NOMA, Manchester, UK
Structural Awards RICS North West Awards 2013 Shortlisted: Commercial Category One Angel Square, Manchester, UK
Winner: Commercial / Retail 2011 Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center, Kazakhstan
RIBA Yorkshire White Rose Awards 2010 Winner: Sustainability Award Regional Agricultural Centre, Yorkshire Showground, UK
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SER VICES INTEGRATED MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING BuroHappold delivers world-class engineering consultancy across a range of disciplines spanning buildings, infrastructure, environment, and project management. We combine creativity with solid technical skills and an awareness of the key drivers that shape projects in the residential sector.
Acoustics Asset management Bridges and civil structures Building services engineering (MEP) Coastal and marine Computational analysis Drainage and storm water management Earthworks Economic development Economic infrastructure Environment Facades Fire engineering Flood risk Geoenvironmental Geotechnical Highway engineering Inclusive design
Integrated development planning IT communications and control Lighting Organisational development People movement Procurement Project management Regional planning Safe & Secure SMART solutions Structural engineering Sustainability Sustainability and environment Transport Transport planning Urban development Utilities engineering Water Herman Miller Headquarters, Chippenham, UK Image Hufton + Crow
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American Express Headquarters Brighton, UK
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Marcol House 49 London, UK
Baltyk Tower 43 Poznań, Poland
Moray Council Headquarters Campus 51 Elgin, UK
Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH Advertising) 50 London, UK
One Angel Square 25 Manchester, UK
Barwa New Cairo 17 Cairo, Egypt
Palestra 10 London, UK
Barking Town Centre 34 London, UK
49 Park Lane 35 London, UK
Baskerville House 48 Birmingham, UK
22-25 Queen Square 50 Bristol, UK
5 Broadgate 11 London, UK
Reliance Global Headquarters 42 Mumbai, India
Genzyme Headquarters 16 Cambridge, MA, USA
SAMBA Financial Group Head Office 11 King Abdullah Financial District Riyadh, KSA
Greater London Authority 24 Sustainability Study London, UK International Broadcast and Main 32 Press Centres, London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games London, UK
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Vodafone World Headquarters 33 Newbury, UK Wessex Water Headquarters 18 Bath, UK Wexford County Council Offices 19 Wexford, Ireland
London 2012 Olympic Stadium 40 London, UK Lyne Hill Redevelopment 34 Staffordshire, UK
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BuroHappold Engineering is an independent, international engineering firm with a reputation, built up over the last 40 years, for delivering creative, value led building and city solutions for an ever changing world.
Described by our clients as ‘passionate’, ‘innovative’, ‘collaborative’, ‘magic’, our global community of driven, world leading engineering professionals based in offices across Europe, America, China, India and the Middle East deliver elegant solutions for buildings and cities that address the major problems facing societies today: resource shortage, climate change, increasing urbanisation and its associated effects. Using integrated approaches that aim to create innovative, holistic and flexible solutions we work closely with a diverse range of celebrated experts: architects, economists, academics, visionaries, to define, develop and deliver strategic, people focused outcomes. These strong relationships provide us with additional insight and perspectives that ensure the solutions we find can more effectively bridge science with society. Our work culture drives the can-do attitude our clients have come to expect of us, and ever since its inception, the World Architecture 100 poll has consistently voted BuroHappold as one of the very best engineering organisations to work with. BuroHappold works alongside some of the world’s most respected and influential international organisations. We have advised and acted for the United 58
Nations, the World Bank and UNESCO in their endeavours to alleviate poverty and provide new thinking to solve old problems and have worked in support of a wide range of significant public and private sector clients across the full portfolio of our services. Our people have skills that straddle a wide diversity of expertise and specialities: technical experts who can turn their hand to all the traditional engineering disciplines, as well as integrators who can bring people together to lead and communicate holistic solutions such as frameworks for revitalising failing cities and pioneering master plans for emerging cities: people-flow specialists who can move a million people across the desert with ease: innovators who engineer facades that absorb pollution or create acoustic venues overnight from rope, wood and sheer hard work. We employ economists and planners who can help to create flexible strategies, specialists whose skills range from water management through to material science, and serial innovators who help us to find our unique solutions to our clients’ unique problems. Our team is deliberately broad based. We have a reputation for embracing the difficult and our teams tackle complex issues head on. But we don’t just look for
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straight forward answers; we question, investigate and challenge our clients to look wider than the immediate space of their projects, helping them to understand and address social, financial and environmental impacts as well as the obvious technical ones. Our innovative thinking has delivered a plethora of benefits for our clients that can in turn deliver higher than expected returns on their investments including happier, greater occupant productivity, increased energy savings and reduced material usage to name but a few. Our thinking has also delivered advantages with a far wider influence; award winning buildings catalysing broader sustainable regeneration, increased people flow resulting in new retail and residential opportunities and smart strategies attracting new sustainable investment. At BuroHappold we believe in harnessing the special magic of our people’s engineering minds; it is this combination of ingenuity and bravery that is helping us create a future that is solution-led, not problem driven and is in turn helping us to reclaim Engineering and to showcase what the very best that we can offer can really achieve.
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