Award!
The project was successful at the International Green Apple Awards 2006 for the built environment and architectural heritage, picking up the GOLD AWARD for New Build Commercial Construction
Description
The business centre is a four storey office building, comprising 60 independent IT units for start-up businesses. It is a sustainable building and includes the relatively new technology of ground-source heat pumps to reduce carbon emissions and save energy.
A fully glazed conference room is provided at roof level. This is covered with an extensive green roof of sedum plants.
The lower roof level is covered with an intensive roof comprising alpine plants. This not only provides a roof garden for the building occupants but provides additional insulation and reduces surface water run-off.
The building was clad with brick, cedar boarding and reclaimed stone from the Orgreave Hall which was demolished in the 1980s. The corner stair towers are fully glazed. The building has a full height void with circulation corridors and clerestory roof light to provide natural day light into the building.
Structurally, the building is designed as a braced steel frame with composite floors and composite deck to the low level roof. The roof to the conference room was supported by trusses of circular hollow sections.
The ground conditions were difficult as there was an area of deep filled ground under much of the building and solid bedrock elsewhere. The design solution chosen was a combination of driven piled foundations in the areas of fill and pad foundations where bedrock is shallow.
The client for the building was the Rotherham Investment & Development Office. Hall construction of Hull was the main contractor.
The design team comprised most disciplines of Rotherham Construction Partnership including architect, landscape architect, mechanical, electrical and structural engineers and quantity surveyors.
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