🟩 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

Reading, UK

🏢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

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Investor

• Chris Hunt – Co-founder & Director @ V7 Asset Management

• Stephen Parry-Jones – Director @ V7 Asset Management

• Matt Leach – Director @ V7 Asset Management

• Zac Veasey – Co-founder & Director @ V7 Asset Management

• BauMont Real Estate Capital Limited

✍️Architects

• Massimo Tepedino – Partner @ Hawkins\Brown

• Nicola Rutt – Former Partner @ Hawkins\Brown

• Andy Hills – Former Architect @ Hawkins\Brown

• Sophie Payne – Former Associate Interior Designer @ Hawkins\Brown

• Alise Jozepa – Interior Designer @ Hawkins\Brown

🌱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

• Space for companies to scale up or down within the campus: The Now building focuses on more cost-effective, flexible spaces, while the Here building is finished to a higher specification

🥦 Wellbeing

• Located on a business park, not in a city centre: provides occupants with much closer connection to nature + opportunity for activity and wellbeing

• RESET Air certification + 3-star Fitwel rating confirms wellness to be the building’s beating heart

• 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. Who said you can't mix work with leisure?

🔗 Check it out https://hereandnow.place

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