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PRO INSTALLER NOVEMBER 2014
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BREEAM ‘EXCELLENT’
RATING ACHIEVEMENT FOR
LEEDS LANDMARK BUILDING
10 Wellington Place is an
outstanding new contemporary building located at the
heart of the Leeds business
hub. The building provides
a stunning vista across the
city whilst providing accommodation for companies
and organisations seeking a
prestigious and distinctive
landmark address.
High performance glass, supplied
by Saint-Gobain, gives the building its striking form through the
impressive floor to ceiling glazing
that provides occupiers and visitors with an unrivalled platform
through which to overlook the city
skyline and key to promoting the
project as a landmark building.
The building features an innovative exterior design and the glass
facade helps create light and airy
interior spaces in which people
can work, shop and relax comfortably. Saint-Gobain helped to
create the glass façade design and
its modern exterior to create a
contrast against the existing stone
architecture in the area.
Saint-Gobain Glass products
were chosen over and above other
glass alternatives in the specifica-
tion due to the architect requiring
a very specific amount of solar
gain and light reflection in the
glass façade. Aesthetically, the
high performance glazing perfectly complimented the building with
its neutral appearance.
Saint-Gobain Glass has extensive
green credentials and conducts
‘Life Cycle’ Assessments for its
products. 10 Wellington Place
achieved a ‘BREEAM’ Excellent-rat-
ing with Saint-Gobain Glass
contributing towards this in two
areas: the company’s high performance glass coatings that reduced
solar gain up to 88% and therefore
reduced the building’s dependence upon air conditioning; and
the ‘Life Cycle’ Assessment which
traces the product’s life cycle from
raw materials to the recycling of
used glass.
The building was susceptible
to a high velocity of wind, and
as it also featured large floor to
ceiling glazing, it was particularly
important that the glazing could
withstand these varying degrees
of wind pressure. Saint-Gobain
Glass provided extensive wind
and barrier loading calculations,
along with photometric data to
help overcome th