SENSE TouchBase Pears
Details
- Location: Birmingham
- Status: Completed
Services
- BIM
- BRUKL
- Design Review
- Detailed Design
- EPC
- Specification Writing
- Thermal Modelling
SENSE TouchBase Pears
Details
- Location: Birmingham
- Status: Completed
Services
- BIM
- BRUKL
- Design Review
- Detailed Design
- EPC
- Specification Writing
- Thermal Modelling
TouchBase Pears, Birmingham, is a pioneering and innovative new build development for SENSE, a national charity that supports deaf-blind people or those who have sensory impairments. The upper floors provide office space with specialist areas on the ground floor including a café, theatre, sensory garden, affordable conference facilities and meeting spaces for community groups for those who have sensory impairments.
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Environmental control was based around the exposed heavy-weight thermal mass coupled to an underfloor plenum supply air system with perimeter trench heating providing excellent thermal comfort year-round, perfectly integrated with the architectural vision for the space. High efficiency rooftop air handling plant incorporating combined heating, cooling and heat recovery from a single heat exchanger system enabled the development of a super-compact central plant area.