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5 Broadgate

London

  • Sector: commercial
  • Status: Completed
  • Control Protocol: DALI
  • A/C Network: IP
  • Special Features: ATS, BMS
  • No. of Floors: 9
  • SQ M: 65,000
  • SQ FT: 700,000
  • Developer: British Land
  • Main Contractor: Mace, ISG
  • Tenants: UBS
  • M&E Engineers: WPP, HPF
  • Electrical Contractor: Mace, Pheonix
  • Architect: Make Architects
  • Accreditations: BREEAM
  • Score: Excellent

LIGHTING CONTROL SPECIFICS:

  • Fully intelligent DALI lighting is used throughout
  • This project uses our DALI Automated Emergency Testing suite
  • Particular areas within the building house a Central Battery System
  • The base build was installed with a hard-wired T-Bus network
  • A CAT B fit out took place which later transferred over to an IP area controller
  • The IP network is multicast rather than unicast
  • BACnet/IP over all systems along with BMS interfacing

DID YOU KNOW:

  • 5 Broadgate is a ‘groundscraper’ home to the Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company, UBS
  • The four trading floors alone cover 67,000 square metres – the equivalent of four football pitches
  • UBS wanted to ensure the build would positively alter the approach that employees took regarding their relationship with their work space
  • With vast employee numbers (6,000) in front of hot-desks with multi-screens, cold water is pumped through the desks to control the temperature and ensure personnel are cool
  • The new building saves space by having one desk for every 1.2 employees
  • Phones have been replaced by personal headsets and employees can log onto their virtual desktops on any computer in the building or out of office
  • Stainless steel plays an essential factor in energy efficiency regarding natural daylight, thermal and solar insulation
  • Blind control across all floors give complete control over lighting levels, reduce solar gain and energy consumption such as AC requirements
  • The majority of floors house chilled beams and combine heating and ventilation systems
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Thank you Simmtronic, for your professional, fast and reactive support with the delivery of these projects.

Adam Scadding

EDDS Limited

Simmtronic have delivered a large number of technically challenging projects for DBS and consistently continued to provide outstanding service. Their support, guidance and help throughout the process has been exceptional, working closely with our design teams to ensure the right solution for the project and a sound understanding of the brief, with our delivery teams to ensure the installation and commissioning are trouble free and then providing fantastic after care to the customer. They have added true engineered value into the projects they have been involved in for Derry Building Services.

Geoff Caborn

Derry Building Services

Simmtronic have been a valued member of the DBS supply chain for over 10 years. Their pro-active and collaborative approach to lighting controls from the design stage, through to commissioning is highly valued by both our Design and Delivery Engineers.

Matt Hallam

Derry Building Services

Over the years I have really appreciated the Simmtronic ability to provide responsive support and listening to projects and clients needs. More recently the Simmtronic team has shown the capability to embrace the connectivity requirements of the Internet of Things by quickly adding MQTT to their range of integration protocols. This will greatly facilitate telemetry applications in buildings and the development of interconnected solutions that will make buildings more usable and easier to operate.

Francesco Anselmo

Arup

Landsec have consistently used Simmtronic Lighting Control Systems across our new London developments for over 15 years. Simmtronic understand our requirements and get involved at the very early stages of schemes, assisting consultants in achieving the optimum design solution, often taking the lead.  They always overcome the programme challenges they are faced with on site, delivering a quality, fully tested and operational solution, on time and to budget. Simmtronic undertake the maintenance and servicing across much of our London portfolio, they have a customer focused and flexible approach that suits the needs of our business and as well as our customers.

Mark Ponzini

LandSec

Simmtronic as an organisation has been, for the last 18 years, by far the best performing and most reliable lighting control system I use. From design through to commissioning and soft landings with the landlord teams Simmtronic always deliver on my projects. Simmtronic technology evolution is not just pushed through like others, but rather properly tested internally first, giving us as client teams the assurance that what Simmtronic say they can offer is 100% delivered, an absolute must with fast track major projects.

Alan Williamson

Multiplex

Simmtronic has constantly been available at an early stage to engage both with the designers and the Contracting team to assist with design solutions and to test options. This ultimately assists us in de-risking the project during the commissioning phase which usually defines when the project is completed. Simmtronic is seen as ‘industry standard’ and it is always encouraging to see them involved.

Jo Benson

Derwent London