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🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Here + Now
Transcends the 9-5 green
This energetic, engaging workplace offers the ultimate wellness and community experience. Amenity, exercise, and relaxation abound: the office has been compellingly reimagined.
📍Location
🏢Building Details
Completed 2021: winner of The Morgan Lovell Workplace of the Future Award
145,650 sq ft: 2 buildings named Here and Now (former Microsoft buildings)
Situated in 80-acre Thames Valley Park nature reserve and wetland habitat
1st UK development to achieve BREEAM Outstanding, Fitwel 3*, and RESET Air certifications (matched only by 1 building in the world, a Toronto art gallery)
👷🏾♀️Developer & Investor
Chris Hunt – Co-founder & Director at V7 Asset Management
Stephen Parry-Jones – Director at V7 Asset Management
Matt Leach – Director at V7 Asset Management
Zac Veasey – Co-founder & Director at V7 Asset Management
✍️Architects
🌱Sustainability
Net zero operational and embodied carbon + BREEAM Outstanding
100% renewable energy provided by Good Energy
Fabric throughout main atrium made from 100% REPREVE®: a recycled fibre brand turning plastic bottles into polyester
Interior surfaces and finishing touches made from Neolith® - market-leading carbon neutral surfacing brand
Rooftop beehives contributes to diverse ecosystem
🥦 Wellbeing
3-star Fitwel rating confirms wellness to be the building’s beating heart
RESET Air certification: high and continuously maintained standards of air quality, visible on smart building app by Cureoscity
3,000 sq. ft. indoor + outdoor gym space; campus bike lanes, plentiful storage and showers
Outdoor working zone for variety and escapism
“Fleet room” equipped with paddleboards, weights, yoga matts, artistic materials, and electric scooters to be borrowed
🎈Bonus feature
An outdoor cinema with deck chairs, beanbags, natural planting, and timber furnishings. Granted: it sounds more like somewhere you’d visit on the weekend rather than an office. Who said you can't mix work with leisure?
🔗 Check it out https://hereandnow.place
