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Architect Sheppard Robson
Structural engineer Ramboll
M&E engineer Aecom
Rated Breeam Excellent, Sheppard Robson's One Kingdom Street offices for Development Securities was one of the first UK office schemes to incorporate carbon footprinting of the construction process throughout the supply chain.
Completed in 2008, the 24,000sq m building provides typical floor plates of 2,500sq m with floor-to-ceiling glazing on all facades. Accommodation is arranged over 10 storeys and around two central atriums. It has a 12m x 10.5m steel grid comprising fabricated cellular steel beams supporting a lightweight concrete slab on a profiled steel deck. The pounds 65 million building sits on a podium over the route for Crossrail and steel was the only structure able to span the gaps between the beams in the substructure.
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