Kings Place, London

Key Sustainability Features

• Adaptable floor plans to suit a variety of public and private uses, including arts.
• Long-span steel structure that spans the auditorium levels.
• Cellular beams providing resource efficient, long-spans, minimising the structural depth and enabling flexible service integration within the structural zone.
• Rapid construction and reduced local impacts by delivering the pre-fabricated steel components to the site by barge on the adjacent canal.
• Sophisticated fire engineering was used to minimise fire protection costs - by eliminating fire protection on many beams and using a single layer intumescent coating appplied off-site.
• Lightweight composite structure reduces loads on three basement levels next to the Regents Canal.
• Energy efficiency features including a triple skin, externally ventilated facade and low energy displacement ventilation air conditioning.