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Designed by Howells, One Centenary Way stands as one of Birmingham’s most sustainable and architecturally distinctive workplaces.

The development has 3-metre-wide horizontal windows encased within an exposed structural steel façade. A Vierendeel Exoskeleton provides a stable solution to the absence of a normal load-bearing core. As the building is situated directly over the A38 Queensway Tunnel, the intelligent design incorporates transfer trusses so that the load of the façade and the building floorplates will be 23-storeys high covering 280,000 sq ft.

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Hiran Perera Photography

( ↑ ) Hiran Perera Photography

The office block reaches 23-storeys high covering 280,000 sq ft. 500 bicycle spaces, alongside showers and locker rooms, plus a service facility and a bike hire are going to be part of the underground cycle hub, accessible for the whole estate.

Wintech were appointed by Argent LLP to provide thermal calculation checks, value engineering, façade concept design, specification writing, design audit and site surveys as part of the façade consultancy scope. Wintech also provided on-site Stage 5 façade access consultancy services.