🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 7 More London

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.

🔗 Check it out https://www.pwc.co.uk/who-we-are/our-purpose/case-studies/7morelondon.html