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An Angel's Office

One Angel Square is an office building located in Manchester, UK, and it is the first building in the UK to achieve BREEAM 'Outstanding' rating.
(BREEAM is the world's leading sustainability assessment method for master-planning projects, infrastructure, and buildings).

What makes this office space so exceptional? The building's design help in achieving an 80% reduction in carbon emissions, 50% reduction in energy consumption, and a reduction in operating costs of up to 30%.

One Angel Square features a double-skinned façade to minimize heating and cooling throughout the year. Underground concrete earth tubes provide an amount of free heating and cooling for incoming fresh air.

Cooled or heated air rises from the basement through various floors to the roof level, where it passes through a heat-exchanger that recycles the heat to warm the incoming air into the offices below. Carbon dioxide sensors regulate the amount of fresh air circulating in the building and reduce the treated air amount.

The building has 300,000sq ft of exposed concrete that forms the ceilings to the office floors. That acts as a thermal sponge absorbing the heat in the building and reducing the amount of energy needed to cool the building.

A rainwater and greywater harvesting systems ensure low water consumption. A combined heat and power (CHP) system powering the building uses waste cooking oil and rapeseed oil as fuel. The system also supplies excess energy back to the grid. It has electrical pool car charging points and features a building user app that relays real-time user information on how the building is performing.

Some interesting photos of the One Angel Square
Article on ArchDaily

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