Hoare Lea's Bristol office has been chosen as the UK experimental building for a pan-European project looking at the impact of buildings on the environment
The aim of the Intelligently Designed Energy Efficient Buildings (IDEEB) project is to provide a tool for designers to balance building user needs against the emissions arising from energy use.

Nick Cullen, associate at Hoare Lea says: "Our building is ideal for the IDEEB project. It is a typical example of a well designed building overtaken by changes in workplace technology."

The project works by developing a new methodology based on an "eco-factor" method which highlights areas of potential emissions or amenity-based improvement.

Measures to be implemented on the Hoare Lea building include replacement of the lighting system with low power luminaires with integral controls yielding a reduction in power usage of at least 35%.

Hoare Lea will also install sun-pipes and light bending transparent panels to improve daylight distribution and visual quality in the building. There will also be C02 sensors to control new actuated ground floor windows and atrium roof louvers to improve indoor air quality in winter.

Work commenced on the building in September 2003 and should be completed by December. The project's success will be judged by a comparison of the collected data.

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Building Sustainable Design