SAS International - Meets requirements for flagship office in
Chepstow
At the recently completed Beaufort Park office centre in
Chepstow, the project’s architects, B3Architects,
specified SAS International’s System 600 acoustic
lighting rafts throughout the building. A pre-fabricated
lighting and acoustic solution, the SAS International
System 600 rafts allow for sustainable natural mass
cooling by facilitating free air movement to the open
soffit, in this case exposed concrete slabs.
Beaufort Park is a flagship initiative, being the first
purpose-built serviced office centre in Chepstow. At the
core of the design brief, the centre’s owners insisted
that the new speculative office development had
extremely strong environmental credentials that would
meet both current and future environmental regulations.
Wynne Harris, Partner of Hoare Lea, the project’s M&E
consultants, commented: “The SAS System 600 rafts, by
integrating lighting and acoustic comfort in one unit,
mean capital and installation costs are also reduced.
This offers significant advantages in terms of modern
methods of construction and allowing the exposed soffit
to work efficiently with the displacement ventilation
and nightime cooling strategy.”
For further design flexibility, SAS International’s
System 600 rafts can be configured to carry services
such as cabling, PA and fire detection and control
systems as well as cleverly concealing the office
extract air points which ensured that each potential
future office module had both supply and extract
ventilation. Apertures for the luminaires and other
services are formed during manufacturing process thus
reducing on-site installation time.
Simon Berry-Jones, Managing Director of Office Space
Ltd, owners of the Riverside Court office centre within
Beaufort Park, commented: “With new regulations on the
energy performance of buildings being introduced, we
designed this office centre to not only meet the needs
of our clients but also the environmental issues we will
be facing in the future.”
Beaufort Park is located approximately one mile from the
Chepstow town centre and has been designed to offer the
flexibility to cater for a variety of enterprises, from
start-ups to large corporations, needing a South Wales
regional office or looking for new headquarters.
Email:
janm@thinktank.org.uk
Arundel Jones Associates Ltd
Hill Farm, Linton Hill, Maidstone, Kent ME17 4AL
Tel : 01622 745333
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