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Summary:

The project included complete demolition with retention of existing Listed façades to construct 44 privately rented apartments and communal areas across seven levels, above 1,021m² of high-quality retail space situated on the basement and ground floor.

The focus was on end-user operation and the flexibility to allow building occupants to control all aspects of their environment.

MEP Services:

• Centralised ventilation shafts were utilised to provide mechanical ventilation heat recovery to all residential space
• Scope included main services distribution, energy analysis, fully boosted cold water and domestic services strategy, comfort cooling via VRV terminal units and extensive incoming and local utility services design
• Services design within congested roof space areas with stringent acoustic measures due the residential apartments
• Negotiating basement substation with UKPN allowing value ground floor retail space to be utilised
  
  

Energy & Sustainability services:

• TCE has ambitious energy and sustainability requirements, which gave us an opportunity to maximise the potential of the development in many distinct aspects
• Sustainability features include a 100m2 green roof with PV panels that power an air sourced heat sourced pump system with a combined heat and boiler system
• Carbon offsetting strategy implemented to deliver a carbon neutral footprint by offsetting deliveries and energy consumption during construction, including:
• 100m2 temporary green wall installed on the hoarding to support biodiversity, fitted with an automatic irrigation system, including water recirculation
• Breath Panels used during construction on the hoarding reduced pollution by absorbing/removing air particles
  
  

Challenges overcome:

• High residential ceiling meant the ceiling zones were kept to a minimum. Highly detailed 3D Revit drawings produced for coordination purposes, with careful services design to ensure service cross overs were avoided wherever possible
• Retaining the listed parts of the façade, whilst:
• ensuring excellent energy performance required careful consideration and many iterations of the design between us and the architects
• prime retail space meant that tenants external services had to be located at roof level
  
  

Result:

Morley House not only offers outstanding residential and retail space, finished to an exceptional standard of design and specification, its overall BREEAM score of 71.8%, means it also delivers the highest standards of performance.

Contract Value: £40m

Client: The Crown Estate

Architect: MSMR Architects

Project Manager: Second London Wall

Quantity Surveyor: Currie & Brown

Structural Engineer: Price & Myers

Project Imagery: ©MSMR Architects