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Keep up to dateBoots vs BA: offices of the future compared | |
Boots head office, Nottinghamshire | British Airways head office, Heathrow |
41 000 m2 for 2500 staff (including refurbished block) designed by DEGW | 120 000 m2 for 3000 staff and 1850 cars, designed by Niels Torp |
Catalyst for increasing productivity | Same |
Open-plan interior; clusters of individual and shared settings | Same |
Mobile IT equipment for all staff | Same |
Internal 鈥渟treet鈥 forms main spine | Same |
Out-of-town complex in parkland | Same |
Two rectangular deep-plan blocks with narrow entrance link | Six horseshoe-shaped blocks linked by a glazed street |
Two- and three-storey buildings partly sunk into ground, with adjacent surface car parking | Four-storey buildings above two-storey basement car parks, in landscaped parkland |
Predominantly natural daylighting through several atria | Natural daylighting in narrow buildings |
Deep-plan environment for low energy consumption | Air-conditioned as windows fixed to block aircraft noise |
Predicted energy consumption 215 kWh/m2 a year (new block) | Energy consumption figures unavailable |
Small restaurant in spine street (main restaurant elsewhere) | Two caf茅s in spine street, four restaurants overlooking lake |
Construction managed (by Mace) | Same |
Construction cost including fit-out (new block only) 拢54m, or 拢1368/尘2 | Construction cost including fit-out, car parking and parkland 拢163m, or 拢1378/m2 |
Cost Summary | |
External Work | 拢81/尘2 |
Substructure | 68/m2 |
Shell-and-core superstructure | 400/m2 |
Shell-and-core services | 134/m2 |
Category A fit-out, including M&E | 358/m2 |
Category fit-out, including furniture | 327/m2 |
Total construction cost | 1368/m2 |
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