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 INTRODUCTION
Architects: 3D Reid
Location: Miller Street, Manchester, UK
Area: 328000.0 ft2
Project Year: 2012
Client: The Co-operative Group
Project manager: Gardiner & Theobald
Structural and M&E engineer: Buro Happold
Contractor: BAM

• Co-operative Group’s new 15 storey headquarters

• BREEAM Version: BREEAM Offices 2008
• Stage: Final Post-Construction
• Score: 95.16%
• BREEAM rating: Outstanding
 KEY FEATURES
• Fully glazed double skin façade minimize heating and
cooling loads
• Summer- Ventilation: Louvres at top open to allow the
warmed air trapped between its inner and outer skins
to rise up and out of the building
• Winter- Insulation: Louvres close so the facade can
form an insulated blanket around the building
• 15 Storey atrium- floods the building’s interior with light
• Light reflected by the exposed white painted concrete
coffered floors, reducing required artificial lighting from 550
to 300 lux.
• Used building information modelling (BIM) to create
building before construction to prevent unnecessary
wastage of materials and time
South facing to
maximize solar gain

300,000 sq ft
exposed concrete,
which acts as a
thermal sponge
 ORIENTATION AND FLOOR PLANS

Site orientation

Top floor plan

Floor plans
 SUSTAINABILITY FEATURES

• Low energy LED lighting & IT equipments

• Greywater and rainwater recycling systems for
toilet flushing
• High efficiency passenger and service lifts

• Earth tubes to bring in cool air via a heat exchanger

• Waste energy -> absorption chiller -> cools the building
• Heat recovery from the IT systems -> heats the building
• Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant fuelled by waste
cooking oil and rapeseed oil produced on own farm
• Electrical car charging points
Color changing lights with daylight
sensors- sense & measure natural
light, triggering the fixtures to only
emit as much light as necessary ,
Increasing energy savings and sustainability