Projects

• Sector: commercial
• Status: Completed
• Control Protocol: DALI
• A/C Network: IP
• Special Features: ATS, BMS, Tunable white
• No. of Floors: 20 (over two separate buildings)
• SQ M: 92,903
• SQ FT: 1,000,000
• Developer: Bloomberg
• Main Contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine
• M&E Engineers: Sweco
• Electrical Contractor: T Clarke
• Architect: Foster & Partners
• Accreditations: BREEAM
• Score: Outstanding

LIGHTING CONTROL HIGHLIGHTS:

• Tunable white lighting throughout creates lighting conditions to suit a large variety of client needs, moods, perceptions and psychological well-being. The benefits of tunable white lighting include: the ability to control a light source’s colour temperature output using a remote control or external control system and enabling the selection of the desired colour of white – courtesy of warm and cool tones – which imitate the part of the circadian rhythm responsible for stimulating and maximising productivity
• The Broadcasting Studio on Level 5 enjoys certain lines of sight, showcasing notable city landmarks in the background behind the circular glass studio and is complimented by colour temperature control, different atmospheres can be created
• The huge spiralling, bronze-encased 200m-long walkway is a hybrid of stair and ramp, following a shape called a hypotrochoid. The staircase incorporates three types of LED lighting displayed via the: handrail, foot-treads and underneath the stairs – all DALI dimmable
• The entrance area to the viewing gallery of the Roman ruins is encased with dimmable LED lighting

DID YOU KNOW:

• Named the Winner of the Stirling Prize 2018 for the UK’s best new building, this ambitious £1bn project was built solely for one client
• Rated the world’s most sustainable office building, Bloomberg London HQ saves 73% in water consumption and 35% in energy consumption and CO₂ emissions
• Metal ceilings hold 2.5 million polished aluminium petals that serve as light reflectors. 500,000 LED lights were incorporated into the ceiling – they use 40% less energy than a typical office lighting system
• The building achieved the highest design-stage score ever achieved by any major office development in the world – 98.5%
• The building matches the height of its neighbours because owner, Michael Bloomberg, wanted to be a good neighbour and not build higher than the surrounding buildings
• Taking a decade to build, the new European Headquarter has been designed to push boundaries, aid teamwork, propel innovation and assemble Bloomberg’s 4,000 London-based employees under one roof
• Staff work at bespoke sit-stand desks, up to 700 people to a floor
• The building is constructed on the site of the Roman temple of Mithras
• Archaeologists from MOLA’s excavation discovery found 400 timber writing tablets; the first known reference to London and the earliest hand-written document in Britain. Some of the 14,000 artefacts are now on public display in the building’s London Mithraeum basement