Case Studies
Outstanding projects highlighting services design and operation
Current thinking: connecting a large all-electric housing estate in West London
To connect the all-electric Convent Way Passivhaus scheme to the constrained local grid in West London, the project team has reduced the load estimate by…
January 2023
Striving for net zero at Foster+Partners’ Battersea HQ
After metering its Battersea HQ, Foster + Partners found that IT, lighting and small power made up a significant proportion of the energy used in…
January 2023
Generation gains: designing a 5th generation energy network in central London
Bankside Yards is set to become the UK’s first major mixed-use regeneration project with zero emissions in operation. Phil Lattimore looks at the fifth-generation ambient energy network…
December 2022
Case study: Edge Suedkreuz offices in Berlin
The striking Edge Suedkreuz office development in Berlin required a space-defying chilled beam system design that met the building’s exacting ventilation, cooling and heating demands. Andy Pearson reports
October 2022
Case study: Battersea Power Station
Battersea’s iconic power station has reopened as a mixed-use development incorporating an innovative services strategy that removed the need for heating and cooling in the…
October 2022
Case study: Houlton School retrofit
Turning a radio transmitter station into a sustainable new school for Rugby involved vastly improving the historic fabric of the building while designing new teaching…
October 2022
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