{"id":8249,"date":"2023-07-06T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2024-10-21T20:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:30:56","slug":"new-mass-timber-office-approved-as-brent-cross-town-takes-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/new-mass-timber-office-approved-as-brent-cross-town-takes-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mass Timber Office Approved as Brent Cross Town Takes Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UK-based real estate developer Related Argent\u00a0has secured planning permission from Barnet Council<\/a>\u00a0for the second commercial building as part of its Brent Cross Town development in North London, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project, designed by Bennetts Associates, will use off-site construction to “set industry-leading targets for embodied carbon reduction, operational efficiency and user wellbeing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The project epitomises everything Related Argent is hoping to achieve at Brent Cross Town in terms of sustainability and social value,” Peter Fisher, Director at Bennetts Associates said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Furthermore, this project supports the new and existing community by providing key, interactive areas for all, including the wildlife.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The project is part of the Brent Cross Town development which is one of Europe’s largest urban regeneration projects in North London. (Photo Credit: Brent Cross Town)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is the first mass-timber framed office building approved in an office park\u00a0<\/a>that accommodates 25,000 workers and 280,000 square metres in buildings using mass timber frames and all-timber flooring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project follows the approval of an all-timber building located on the former site of Holborn Town Hall<\/a>, which will boast a glulam frame along with cross-laminated timber slabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new building will sit next to the newly-opened Claremont Park, alongside two major new public squares that will be a gateway to the rest of the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The view of the proposed 9 storey cross-laminated timber building from the Claremont Park. (Image Credit: Bennett Associates)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Typical floor plates are 1,700 square metres and will have a gross floor area of more than 15,000 square metres, with views over Claremont Park and beyond to the playing fields and Hampstead Heath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ground floor enteance offers welcoming experience with a colonnade linking the prominent office entrance with a food and beverage tenancy. (Image credit: Bennett Associates)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The approval is the latest as Brent Cross Town progresses with five buildings, including residential and student rooms, already under construction, alongside associated infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wood Central understands that the developers of Brent Cross Town will use cross-laminated timber to construct commercial offices out of all timber or a hybrid of mass timber and low-carbon concrete.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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