{"id":7448,"date":"2023-06-15T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2024-12-23T23:34:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:34:20","slug":"approval-granted-for-uks-largest-all-timber-office-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/approval-granted-for-uks-largest-all-timber-office-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Approval Granted for UK’s Largest All-Timber Office Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Piercy&Co<\/a>, a UK-based firm, has secured permission to design the largest all-timber office tower in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nine-storey project, located on the former site of Holborn Town Hall, will boast a glulam frame along with cross-laminated timber slabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As reported by Architects Journal<\/a>, the existing basement car park, and slab substructure will be preserved in the 13,900m\u00b2 development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project also involves refurbishing a mid-20th-century building tucked behind the street frontage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project is an important milestone for the UK timber industry, with hesitency<\/a> and regulation obstacles after the Grenfell disaster.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Piercy&Co, the embodied carbon rating of the building’s timber structure and its high-performance facade should exceed the UK Green Building Council\u2019s Building the Case for Net Zero Office baseline target<\/a> by more than 50 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Net Zero Office baseline target is an initiative by the UK Green Building Council to demonstrate that the buildings can achieve net-zero performance targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The building’s facade construction axonometric uses a combination of glulam framing and cross-laminated timber slabs (Photo credit: Architects Journal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Piercy&Co director Harry Bucknall explained: \u2018Of course, the decision to replace a building is not ever taken lightly, and in this instance is a consequence of detailed whole-life carbon studies, concluding that this was the most environmentally responsible approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018[With this approach] comes the responsibility of designing a building that sets a high standard for ecologically responsible construction, and a design that is of a quality and adaptability that ensures the building has the best possible chance of still being here in 100 years.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The building will use 100 percent renewable grid electricity and showcase rooftop photovoltaic panels. It will also feature all-electric heating, hot water, and cooling systems alongside demand-driven displacement ventilation to the office floors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work on the site is expected to commence later this year, with the project’s completion anticipated for early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Piercy&Co, a UK-based firm, has secured permission to design the largest all-timber office tower in the UK. The nine-storey project, located on the former site of Holborn Town Hall, will boast a glulam frame along with cross-laminated timber slabs. As reported by Architects Journal, the existing basement car park, and slab substructure will be preserved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[3,38,37,35,53],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[69],"class_list":{"0":"post-7448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-architecture","8":"category-architecture-and-design","9":"category-building-and-construction","10":"category-case-studies","11":"category-europe"},"authors":[{"term_id":69,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"woodcentral","display_name":"Wood Central","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MASTER-BRAND-MARK_POS_RGB-e1676449549955.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MASTER-BRAND-MARK_POS_RGB-e1676449549955.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7451,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions\/7451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7448"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=7448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}