Ellipta Compliance Building, GSK Ware

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  • Modern building with wooden cladding and solar panels on the roof

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  • Empty room with wooden beams, large windows, fluorescent lighting, and exposed pipes.

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  • Modern hallway with wooden flooring, beige walls, exposed pipes, and ceiling lights, featuring a glass elevator and a wooden door at the end.

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  • Modern office space with wooden flooring, light wood ceiling with exposed beams, and large windows. White office desks with blue partitions are arranged in the center.

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  • Interior of a room with wooden ceiling, skylights, exposed pipes, and emergency exit door.

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  • Modern building with solar panels on the roof and wooden exterior design.

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Sectors: Pharmaceutical and Commercial

Client: GlaxoSmithKline

Construction Value: £4.5million

Involvement: RIBA stages 0-7

PROJECT:

The project was a new-build facility that achieved Zero Carbon, the building was timber frame with CLT Floor panels and Hemcrete Roof & Wall Panels. The facility incorporates a Rehau tube system installed below ground to pre-temper air prior to use, Photovoltaic Cells on the roof in addition to LED Lighting as well as internal finishes with low embodied carbon. The total GIA for the building was 1,150 sqm.

SCOPE OF SERVICES:

Simons Design provided a multi-disciplinary design team comprising of, architectural design services M&E, Structural and Low Carb Carbon Consultancy to develop Concept, Scheme and Detail Design proposals and provided technical support throughout the pre-construction and construction phases, to handover. The design proposals were developed in BIM to enable detailed coordination of the facility and services installation and enable carbon within the construction to be calculated.

PROGRAMME:

  • Detail Design: Completed June 2014

  • Start on Site: June 2014

  • Handover: December 2014