The Belgrave Road office development in London is the first to receive a Nabers UK 5.5 target rating for its carefully considered design. Andy Pearson finds out how the rating scheme’s independent design review process drove down operational energy use on the hybrid ambient loop/variable refrigerant flow scheme
Tag: Ventilation
Healthy buildings standards: how to comply with them
What solutions you can deploy that are recommended by healthy building standards for improving indoor air quality.
Why buying a CO2 monitor for your workplace is not enough
If you don’t apply the correct monitor for your situation, you could be wasting money and impacting your occupants’ wellbeing.
Reducing airborne particulates is for life, not just for covid
We cannot simply assume that bringing outdoor air into a building without air cleaning that same air will always improve the situation
Ventilation: a matter of life and death
The tragic death of Awaab Ishak should be a very clear reminder to us all of the fundamental importance of the Building Regulations’ requirement to provide adequate ventilation in any habitable building, and not just in a pandemic, says Hywel Davies
Calculating indoor infection risk
To understand how ventilation reduces Covid transmission it is important to look at the level of risk as the number of building occupants increases, says Chris Iddon, who introduces a methodology that addresses the difference in personal and population risk
Case study: Edge Suedkreuz offices in Berlin
The striking Edge Suedkreuz office development in Berlin required a space-defying chilled beam system design that met the building’s exacting ventilation, cooling and heating demands. Andy Pearson reports
Case study: Houlton School retrofit
Turning a radio transmitter station into a sustainable new school for Rugby involved vastly improving the historic fabric of the building while designing new teaching blocks to a high thermal performance to ensure top marks for low energy use. Andy Pearson reports
Riding high: Dubai’s indoor rollercoaster
An effective air condition system was essential to making the Storm indoor rollercoaster viable in Dubai’s desert environment. Andy Pearson explains how Cundall minimised cooling loads by creating a temperature gradient using a tower of air handling units
Bloom Clerkenwell: the peak of health
To tempt workers back to the office, developers have to deliver healthy workplaces that score highly on sustainability and smart technology. Andy Pearson looks at post-pandemic office design at Bloom Clerkenwell