CASE STUDY | EDENICA OFFICE WIREDSCORE CERTIFICATION removed from the soffit at night by opening the high-level hopper windows. On the lower floors, where the floor plates are deeper, the natural ventilation solution is less effective. The perimeter underfloor air supply units will turn off when the windows open, but the underfloor system will continue to serve the interior spaces in a solution that Terndrup describes as part natural ventilation, part air conditioning. The faade is assembled from precast concrete panels, made using recycled Developed in America in 2013, WiredScore certification assesses the quality and resilience of digital infrastructure in buildings across the globe. It provides landlords and developers with valuable guidance on how to design a best-in-class digitally connected and future-ready building, and how to promote it to prospective occupiers and residents. Each level, from WiredScore Certified to WiredScore Platinum, proves that your asset goes above and beyond to meet modern expectations of digital connectivity. WiredScore is a point-based system under which a building can earn up to 100 points, achieving levels from WiredScore Certified to WiredScore Platinum. For an existing building to reach WiredScore Platinum, it must earn at least 90 points. Points can be earned in a variety of ways, and this is broken down into three main categories connectivity, infrastructure and readiness. Passport to circularity The brise soleil on Edenica is elevation-specific The building has high-level automated hopper windows and mid-level manually openable windows 26 November 2023 www.cibsejournal.com concrete to minimise embodied energy. It comprises deep window recesses, supplemented by elevation-specific brise soleil to minimise heat gains on the floor plates. Waterman modelled the scheme to assess the shading benefit provided by the adjacent buildings. Often, engineers will say were not going to allow for that because someone might knock the building down, but our client took a pragmatic approach by not having shading where the building is already shaded. Four roof-mounted air source heat pumps provide heating, cooling and domestic hot water (DHW) to a variable flow system. Heating is at a temperature of 45oC flow/40oC return, while chilled water is at 7oC flow/13oC return to maximise heat pump efficiency. Heat pumps are four-pipe heat recovery units, selected to enable heat and coolth to be shared during shoulder seasons. A top-up water source heat pump in the basement elevates the hot water supply temperature to 65oC to heat the basement DHW calorifiers. The buildings prefabricated concrete envelope contains less than half the carbon of a fully glazed or aluminium-clad solution. The architect estimates its design life as 120 years; nevertheless, its fixing system has been designed to enable it to be easily removed or replaced where necessary.