The offices at The Bridge will be high quality Grade A buildings set within an attractive landscape
and close to a wide range of facilities.
Designed on a 1.5 metre planning grid with a building depth of 15 metres, the buildings have each been designed to be flexible so
that they can be tailored to individual occupiers’ requirements. Every building can be open plan or cellular, for example, or
they can be divided either horizontally or vertically.
The three storey buildings will have roof mounted plant rooms and triple height glazed entrances, while natural
daylight will be regulated by high performance glazing and brises soleil. Wall cladding materials can include timber,
ceramic granite and terracotta tiles giving occupiers plenty of scope to specify a distinctive building.
The office buildings will combine undercroft and surface parking to minimise the impact of cars on the surrounding environment,
while all the offices will be within easy walking distance of a Fastrack station.
All office buildings at The Bridge will include:
- Low energy systems including:
- Office area displacement ventilation system
- Variable speed fans and pumps
- Occupancy detection lighting control
- Perimeter lighting automatic daylight dimming controls
- Ventilation heat recovery
- Luminaire high frequency control gear
- Condensing boilers
- Low energy lamp sources
- Enhanced pipework and ductwork thermal insulation
- High efficiency fan and pump motors
- Pipework and ductwork sizing to reducepump and fan motor capacities
- Low NOx emission boilers
- Zero ozone depletion chiller refrigerants
- Water reduction measures such as:
- Metering
- Low flow taps
- Dual flush WC cisterns
- Urinal flushing flow controls
- External solar shading and high performance glazing to reduce solar gain loads
- Daylight penetration into the building
- Cycle storage facilities and showers
- Waste recycling areas
- Minimising light pollution
The sustainable elements of the buildings have a degree of
flexibility and if occupiers would like to increase the `green’
elements of their buildings, the following options are also available:
- Rainwater harvesting
- Grey water recycling
- Green roofs
- Renewable energy sources such as photo-voltaic cells, wind turbines, solar water heating
- Mixed mode ventilation system utilising natural ventilation wherever possible
- Exposed thermal mass with night-time purge free cooling routine
- Enhanced ecological features such as integrating bat boxes and bird nesting boxes
- Use of the lake for heating and/or cooling purposes
- Sustainable urban drainage systems
- Use of recycled materials
- Use of BRE Green Guide to Specification for material selection