Love or loath the Architecture, the building was nominated by local residents as the “ugliest building of the year” in 2014. However, this unfortunate nomination does not detract from the engineering success of the project which was constructed on time and within budget despite the brown field site being located on the extremely busy junction of Hills Road: Chesterton Road.

A centralised energy centre provides LPHW district heating mains which serve heat interface units installed in each apartment, the units carefully control the source of secondary heat to suit the individual’s need whilst simultaneously monitoring and recording the amount of energy consumed per property. The combination of central energy centre: local heat interface units enables one to apply a substantial diversity factor to the overall system capacity. In essence, this means that the sizes of the installed boilers, pumps, pipework, etc are significantly reduced.

Extent of Mechanical Services:

• Incoming utilities
• LPHW Heating – Central gas fired condensing boiler plant.
• Domestic hot and cold-water services
• Local extract and mixed mode ventilation
• Automatic control systems

Extent of Electrical Services:

• Incoming utilities
• General lighting and emergency lighting
• Electrical small power
• Door entry, CCTV and security systems
• Lightning protection
• Landscape lighting