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Victoria House - 2 Haddington Road:
The office building is accessed off a three storey entrance atrium. The impressive entrance and reception area is fitted out to the highest standards with honed black limestone flooring in the atrium and up the stairs. The office floors have separate toilet accommodation accessed off the main lift core fitted out to the highest standards. The building is designed to be an energy efficient third generation office building. The building employs good external shading, solar performance glazing, exposed concrete ceilings and automatic opening night cooling vents to ensure comfort conditions are achieved without the need for any air conditioning systems and associated refrigerant cooling. Additional A/C could be provided with a tenant fit-out solely for areas where additional cooling would be required. Considerable cost savings in running costs are thus achieved.
The building has been carefully designed to meet the criteria of the new Energy Rating for Buildings so that the highest possible rating can be achieved with a sustainable and environmental design. Trench heating is employed along the perimeter concealed within the raised access floor. In general, the lighting installation will comprise high frequency, category 2, low brightness, fluorescent luminaires which will be selected to provide illumination levels as recommended in the latest standards. The office floors have raised accessed floors and impressive floor to ceilings of nearly 3m. The floor plate can accommodate open plan offices or fully cellularised as required. The offices have generous balconies and terraces overlooking the canal at each floor level.There are 6 secure car parking spaces located in the basement accessed from a car hoist operated by a remote sensor. |
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The design of the building is contemporary but creates strong links in form and colour to the existing historic buildings. The external elevations are a combination of natural stone and high performance double glazed curtain walling. An office area of approximately 1331sqm gross floor area in the building on ground, first, second and third / penthouse level.
2 Haddington Road will is a state-of the-art low energy building providing reduced energy consumption and associated fossil fuel carbon emissions. A key feature of the building is the utilisation of exposed concrete slabs at ceiling level which act as thermal stores for the office space. Secure motorized windows at high level open during summer nights to avail of cool air. This air pre-cools the slabs prior to occupation in the morning, with the "coolth" being released during the day time to ensure comfort within the office space. The windows would be interlinked to the Offices' Building Management System (BMS) to automatically control the windows depending on the current internal and external air temperatures.