Pioneering green
With its unusual, continuously meandering façade, 7 More London represents a combination of courage, vision, and hawk-like attention to detail. No wonder it not only met but exceeded BREEAM expectations.
📍Location
London, UK
🏢Building Details
10-storey, 80,000 sq ft – accommodates 4,000 people
Completed in 2011 for PwC
Winner of 2012 British Council for Offices Award
Symmetrical wings connected by 3 curved bridges: zigzag façade with no obvious front or back
👷🏾♀️Contractor
Gareth Lewis, Technical Analyst & Project Manager @ Mace
✍️Architects & Engineers
Norman Foster, CEO @ Foster + Partners
Bob Spittle, Former Director and Chairman of Environmental Engineering @ BDP
🌱Sustainability
1st London building + 1st major UK office awarded BREEAM Outstanding
80% recycled aggregate used in concrete, lowering embodied energy
Biodiesel fired Combined Cooling Heating & Power trigeneration plant uses 74% less CO2 than required under 2006 regulations
Redeveloped a formerly derelict, brownfield site: stimulating local ecology and facilitating green corridors with ground level planting and green roofs
Incorporates a rubble roof: habitat which attracted birds in wartime London but displaced in recent decades
Smart lifts: captures and reuses energy from braking
🥦 Wellbeing
Inner courtyard, several roof gardens, and green roof on lower southern elevation
Colour-zoning uses vibrant, colourful palettes to inspire creativity; warm, rich colours to give visitor areas an inviting feel; natural, relaxing tones in working environments
High performance façade offers acoustic attenuation from busy Tooley Street to the south, maximises North views of The Tower of London, and provides solar shading
235 bike racks, shower facilities, and free cycling maintenance service – with 100% take-up
🎈Bonus feature
The paper towels in the bathroom are made from recycled archive files. Closed loop recycling to a T.
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