Buro Happold - Hotel Capability Statement 2010

Hotel Capability
February 2010

Buro Happold
Buro Happold Hotels
Introduction

Buro Happold has first-hand knowledge of the hotel of the hotel. With superb engineering based on a
sector – our design skills have been applied to a clear understanding of our clients’ needs, we bring
wide range of projects around the world. We have unrivalled know-how and a wealth of experience to
worked on all hotel types, from travelodges and resort innovative hotel design.
apartments through to prestigious five-star ‘designer’
hotels and spectacular mixed-use developments. Buro Happold works in conjuction with G&H Group
for Verbus Systems developing modular construction
We strive to raise the benchmark for the standard of projects. The Verbus System is a proven globally
hotel design. A successful hotel should exceed guests’ deployed patented technology which allows high
expectations of quality, comfort and convenience quality modular accommodation to be produced at
and have a measurable impact on profitability. Our low cost and delivered to any site in the world.
expertise in hotel design and construction has been
gained over many years of involvement with this type
of building.

Buro Happold’s engineers work closely with architects,
interior designers, caterers, datacomms specialists
and hotel management to provide multi-disciplinary
solutions that afford best value and lowest capital cost.
We recognise that as a business a hotel must make the
most efficient use of materials, energy systems and
staffing resources.

Ultimately, a hotel exists to deliver service to its guests,
so ease of access to rooms and front-of-house areas
is critical. Our flexible designs take into account a
hotel’s unique zonal layout, where a honeycomb of
bedrooms co-exists with public spaces, receptions,
bars, restaurants, sports and conference facilities.

An integrated approach to the design process means
that our hotels, in common with all the best hotels,
are fully co-ordinated, fusing hotel functionality with
construction and engineering features that improve
the performance of the building – for example,
the right facade should enhance guest comfort by
regulating the internal environment.

Buro Happold’s detailed understanding of technical
and procurement options enables us to add value
to both the initial project and to the operational life

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Clerkenwell Hotel
London, UK

Located on Clerkenwell Road, one of London’s most
fashionable neighbourhoods, the Zetter Restaurant &
Rooms is conveniently situated on the edge of the city
just a ten-minute ride from the West End. This new four-
star designer hotel was constructed within a refurbished
warehouse and is comfort cooled, with 59 bedrooms, 7
penthouse suites, conference facilities, bars and a high-
class restaurant.

The key issues for the project were:

Sustainability - the services installations were designed
for energy efficiency, utilising a borehole cooling system
and heat pumps to heat and cool the building. The
borehole water was also utilised for hotel flushing.

Fire engineering - a comprehensive fire engineering
solution was developed to enable the building to be
designed with only a single staircase. Computational
fluid dynamics modelling was undertaken to analyse
the smoke control within the atrium. The atrium smoke
vents also facilitate natural ventilation of the smoke
during the summer periods.

Acoustics - the listed facade and close vicinity to a very
large inner city roads created a challenging acoustic
environment. Secondary glazing, internal twin wall
partitions and airtight seals on the bedroom doors were
specified to minimise noise transmission.

Plant space - to maximise the number of headroom
within the constrained roofline, sectors of the roof were
designed to be removed to facilitate maintenance. The
use of borehole cooling and heat pumps alleviated the
need to provide rooftop chillers.

Key project information

Client Urban Hotel Group
Architect Chetwood Associates
Project value £10m
Dates Completed 2003

Services provided by Buro Happold
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Building services engineering, fire engineering, acoustic
engineering, sustainability consultancy

4 Images copyright: Buro Happold/Mandy Reynolds

Buro Happold
Silken Hotel
London

Buro Happold is collaborating with Foster and Partners on Key project information
this new build, 10- storey hotel in the heart of London. The
hotel is situated at the east end of the Strand, on the site of Client Grupo Urvasco S.A.
Marconi House, the historic building where the first public Architect Foster and Partners
radio broadcast took place in 1922. The new building will Project value £90m
combine the restoration of the listed facade of Marconi House Date 2004 - 2007
with a new Portland stone building, and will correspond
perfectly with the adjacent apartment buildings.
The hotel is aiming for a five-star rating and will provide 170
bedrooms and 90 apartments. Restaurants, bars, a rooftop Structural engineering, ground engineering, fire engineering
terrace and a central atrium will also be provided. design & risk assessment (FEDRA), infrastructure (drainage),
health & safety/planning supervision.
The client is based in Spain and has a history of producing
high-quality hotels. Among their most recent initiatives was
their highly publicised decision to choose four architects to
complete single floors of the same hotel.

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Copyright: Foster and Partners

Greenwich Peninsula - AEG Hotel
London, UK

The project is a 65,000m2 Hotel with banqueting, exhibition, swimming pool, health spa and serviced
residential units, located next the Millenium Dome on Londons Greenwich Peninsula. Buro Happold
provided all major engineering design up to concept stage, the project is currently on hold.

The design was based on a generic Marriott specification for the Renaissance tailored to suit local
building codes and market standards. MEP engineering strategy included Combined Heat and Power
plant, remote central cooling plant, DC motor driven fan coils and low energy controls. The project
had a design target of BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and was set to achieve very low carbon emissions rating
(50% less than building code minimum), due in part to the link up of central plant between the hotel
and the entertainment facilities housed within the Millenium Dome.


Client Anschutz Entertainment Group
Architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Project value £120m


Structures, Building Services, Infrastructure, COSA, Facilities Management, CDM Co-ordination and
FEDRA
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Buro Happold
The Lowry Hotel
Manchester

Commissioned by Rocco Forte Hotel, this five-star
contemporary hotel has 165 rooms including a
presidential suite, bar, restaurant, banqueting and
health spa facilities. Basement and ground floor
accommodation includes servicing and A3 retail and
leisure units with access to the river walk.

Site constraints influenced development of an
irregular floor plate layout, making the best use of the
surrounding area.

Complementing the elegant architectural design and
internal space planning, Buro Happold used concrete
to create a non-uniform layout and optimise the size of
the columns and floor slab thickness. The acoustics of
the reinforced concrete frame were carefully detailed to
ensure sound integrity.

The internal space planning required a large column
free banqueting suite. A steel-truss, long-span solution
was integrated to support the eight storeys of concrete
frame above. This innovative solution provided a 25m
column-free area with integral acoustic separation to the
bedrooms above.

Adjacent to the River Ure, the basement was designed
with waterproofed external bonding to ensure no
water ingress through the service yard. Excavated
contaminated material was graded to optimise disposal
rates.


Client The Rocco Forte Collection
Architect Consarc Design Ltd
Project value £27m


Building services engineering, structural engineering,
infrastructure and environment, facade engineering,
fire engineering design and risk assessment, ground
engineering, asset management

Images copyright Mandy Reynolds
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Malmaison Hotels
UK

Malmaison, Birmingham

Situated in the Mailbox, once a 1960’s Royal Mail
sorting office, this Malmaison Hotel is at the heart of
Birmingham city centre. It has 189 Rooms and boasts a
brasserie bar, conference facilities and a mini spa.

Services provided by Buro Happold:

Building Services

Malmaison, Manchester

The former Joshua Hoyle warehouse building, with its
red brick and terracotta exterior, has been converted
into a 167- room Malmaison hotel. The hotel stands at
the heart of Manchester city centre, and incorporates
Conference and Banqueting facilities and a Health club.


Building Services and Structures

Malmaison, Leeds

The 100-room Malmaison Leeds stands at the heart
of Leeds city centre, in the business district. Formerly
offices, facilities includes, meeting facilities, bar and
restaurant.


Building Services

Malmaison, Newcastle

The Newcastle Malmaison standsproudly on the
quayside. With 120 rooms, it was the first hotel in
the chain to incorporate Café Mal, a deli-style café,
in addition to conference and banqueting facilities
including two large purpose built meeting rooms and a
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health club.


Building Services and Buro Happold Management

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Buro Happold
Buckingham Hotel, Kensington
London, UK

At the beginning of the project, the site comprised
seven Victorian two-storey houses with basements,
five of which had at one time been combined into a
hotel. These had subsequently become dilapidated and
work had been started, but not completed, to convert
them into flats. The other two houses had been gutted
by fire and only the shells remained. As a result, the
seven houses together offered an ideal opportunity for
redevelopment over a site area of 1,540m2.

In common with a lot of inner city developments, the
financial viability of the scheme depended on the
provision of a high percentage of money-earning floor
area. In this case 159 bedrooms and suites, with a total
floor area of 6,200m2, a restaurant and conference and
leisure facilities over 2,800m2 were planned. Like similar
developments, the physical planning constraints were
very tight - the main criteria being that the site was part
of a terrace, and the building could not be increased in
height beyond the existing roof line 25m above road
level. Furthermore, the Cromwell Road facade was to be
retained.

The brief was to design services to a standard
commensurate with three or four-star hotel and within
performance guidelines provided by Holiday Inn. Most
significantly the hotel was to be fully air conditioned and
a standby generator was to be provided.

The mechanical services element of the building
includes heating, ventilation, cooling, relative humidity
control, water services, natural gas service, drainage and
fire fighting systems.


Client Naaz Investment
Project value £11.5m (mechanical & electrical
£3.1m)


Structural engineering, building services engineering

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Claridge’s Hotel Refurbishment
London, UK

Buro Happold provided structural engineering design
services for the refurbishment work of the Grade II Listed
Claridge’s Hotel, one of the oldest and most exclusive
hotels in London. Working closely with US architects,
the works included major alterations to the existing
ground floor and mezzanine level of the hotel such as
removing load bearing walls. The work also included
site supervision of the works during the removal of the
structural elements.

The innovative technical solutions offered ensured that
the existing Listed ceiling levels was maintained and no
downstand beams or transfer structure were required
despite the removal of a number of major supporting
elements. All structural work was carried out while the
hotel remained occupied. The work areas were sealed
by the contractor acoustically and against dust from the
rest of the hotel by temporary decorative hoardings.

As part of this development, Buro Happold also
provided structural engineering services for the removal
of a laundry chute running to the basement due to
the refurbishment and the creation of a number of
new suites. The refurbishment covered six floors of this
magnificent five-star hotel.


Client Claridge’s Hotel
Architect Thierry W Despont Architects, USA
Project value £5m


Structural engineering, project management.
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10 All images courtesy of Claridge’s Hotel

Buro Happold
Cumberland Hotel
London, UK

Built in the 1930s, the Cumberland Hotel is a 1,000-bed
hotel in the heart of London. Originally a three-star
hotel, the hotel building and adjoining staff annex
were recently refurbished and upgraded to a five-star
establishment.

Similar to most 1930s buildings, the Cumberland Hotel
is a masonry and stone-clad steel-framed building, with
a combination of filler joists and beam and pot floors.
To facilitate the proposed refurbishment of the hotel,
we quickly established a detailed understanding of the
configuration of the frame, particularly the location of
the transfer beams at the lower levels. This enabled us
to provide clear direction to the architects in developing
the reconfiguration of the public area at ground and
below.

The ground floor and the three sub-basements of the
main hotel were completely remodelled to provide new
facilities including a new entrance lobby/foyer, food
court, fine dining restaurant, kitchens, conference areas
and plant areas below. New lifts were provided as well
as a glassed feature lift with glazed stairs to serve the
entrance lobby and basement meeting/function rooms.

The existing staff accommodation building was
remodelled to provide hotel bedrooms and suites to
the ground and upper floors with conference areas to
the basement and plant areas below. A new core was
built in the existing light well area and penetrated down
through the existing ground floor and basements where
new staircases, lifts, lobbies and shafts were provided.
The core was a primary steel structure fixed back to the
existing structure with composite profile metal deck and
insitu concrete floor slabs.


Client The Cumberland Hotel
Architect Reardon Smith


Facade engineering, structural engineering, disability
design consultancy, fire engineering, infrastructure and
transport engineering.
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Macdonald St Paul’s Hotel
Sheffield, UK

Located next to the soaring arches of the Sheffield
Winter Gardens - another major Buro Happold project -
the Macdonald St Paul’s Hotel represents the very best in
contemporary hotel design. As Sheffield’s first four-star
City Centre hotel it makes a stylish contribution to the
current revitalisation of the City’s urban fabric. Buro
Happold played a key role in developing the scheme
and identifying functional and economic solutions to its
many complex challenges.

A key parameter for the development was that it should
not overshadow the Winter Gardens or be higher than
the adjacent Town Hall. This created the problem of
how to fit enough bedrooms and public facilities on the
site to make it economically viable. Following detailed
spatial planing and co-ordination between the architect,
structural and services engineers, the solution was to
fit mezzanine floors in the back of house areas which
added three additional storeys within the fixed height of
the building.

Pre-cast construction for the bedroom block was key
to the success of the project, the slender load bearing
walls and slabs helping the structure to meet the tight
massing limits. To ensure a smooth, aesthetic transition
to the adjoining Winter Gardens, the hotel’s Pavilion -
which houses its bars and restaurants - has simple but
striking curved valley roof which picks up the sweeping
line of the neighbouring building. A simple glazed
facade allows guests to enjoy ‘borrowed’ views of the
adjacent lush plantlife.


Client Macdonald Hotels
Architect Weintraub Associates
Project value £17m


Structural engineering, building services engineering,
infrastructure and environment, ground engineering
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12 Images copyright Angus McDonald

Buro Happold
Savoy Hotel
London, UK

The Savoy Hotel was built in 1890 and is a Grade
II Listed building. In 1910 the south facade was
extended outwards by some 2.5m using an innovative
arrangement of steel roof trusses and hangers. This
produced larger rooms on this riverfront elevation
but had the drawback of having large sections of the
original facade walls within the internal space. Buro
Happold was appointed to undertake a feasibility study
and to produce detailed design for removing these
load bearing intrusions so that the rooms could be
remodelled and upgraded.

New lift shafts, staircases, along with a new striking
ornate steel and glass dome over the River Restaurant
also formed part of our detailed design brief.

In addition, the ornate south facade is clad in terracotta
faience, which is in poor condition due to corrosion
of the underlying structural steelwork. Buro Happold
was appointed to survey and report on the condition
of this face of the building, and to advise on how best
to undertake repairs. Our recommendations included
the installation of cathodic protection to overcome the
problem of corrosion, along with local repairs to the
faience and other cladding elements. We also supervised
all of the site works to completion.


Client Fairmont Hotels and Resorts
Architect Reardon Smith
Project Value £100m
Date Completed 2006


Structural engineering

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Verbus Hotels
UK
The Verbus System is a proven globally deployed techniques and capacity to manufacture top quality
patented technology which allows high quality accommodation solutions at high volume. It represents a
modular accommodation to be produced at low viable alternative to traditional methods of construction
cost and delivered to any site in the world. Verbus as well as outperforming other methods of modular
modular accommodation is robust, easy to assemble construction currently available.
and can be adapted to suit any planning or end user
needs. In particular the Verbus System is especially Robustness
suited to moderate to high rise, three to sixteen storey
Verbus steel modules are extremely robust and of
self supporting construction from factory produced
higher structural quality than other modular products
volumetric modules. The factory produced system allows
on the market. Modules can be stacked up to sixteen
consistant predictability, rapid construction at lower
storeys high, and using specially developed locking
costs than traditional methods.
mechanisms, can be easily, but securely, connected.
Modular Construction Using the Verbus system, it is possible to assemble
the structure of a three hundred bed hotel, student
Modular technology is able to reduce construction times
accommodation or housing in a few weeks.
by up to half, as well as being a safer, cleaner, more
environmentally friendly method of construction than Cost-effectiveness
traditional “brick and block” techniques.
The Verbus System, brings a considerable lower
completed building cost when compared with other
The Verbus System
modular system derived buildings. This makes it an ideal
The Verbus System utilises established production solution commercial projects such as hotels.
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Buro Happold
Travelodge Uxbridge
Verbus Systems have developed this 120 bed hotel in London. The Verbus system works by using prefabricated bedroom
modules which arrive partially or fully fitted-out. When on site the modules are locked together and the internal fit-out is
completed. Once all modules are in place the building is finished with a traditional brickwork, render or cladding exterior
and a pitched or flat roof.
The Verbus system offers numerous benefits for hoteliers. It is more robust that traditional timber frame, more immune to
defects caused by shrinkage and settlement, and has better fire and acoustic ratings.

Tulip Hotel, North East
Verbus are presently developing this hotel in North East England. The Verbus system works by using prefabricated
bedroom modules which arrive partially or fully fitted-out. When on site the modules are locked together and the internal
fit-out is completed. Once all modules are in place the building is finished with a traditional brickwork, render or cladding 15
exterior and a pitched or flat roof.

Verbus Travelodge Heathrow
London, UK

A six storey, 310 bed 3 star Travelodge near Heathrow
Airport construction from modified steel shipping
containers.

The project was completed in 58 weeks this included
demolition of the existing buildings on the site,
foundation piling and construction of the primary
support frame. The Verbus modules were lifted into
place over a period of eight weeks, the remaining time
was spent finishing off the corridors, fitting out the
ancillary areas and installing the cladding.

Heathrow

Site logistics were further complicated as the
site was located under one of the primary flight
paths into Heathrow. Deliveries of modules were
coordinated with flight patterns and available space
on site. Notwithstanding the project was delivered on
programme and within budget.

Using 3D Modelling software, we modelled the steel
structure for the Heathrow Travelodge. By using the
Verbus module layouts coupled with the 3D structure,
we were able to identify any potential issues or clashes
and design additional connections where the frame
would not facilitate the standard connections.

The main reason we used 3D Modelling was to reduce
time in drafting and therefore increase efficiency. All
future modular projects we intend to use 3D modelling
to set out the structure and also to design and detail the
units. Again this will save us time in the long run and
improve accuracy.
Key Project Information
Acoustics: Due to the proximity of the site with
Heathrow Airport, the site was subjected to high Client Travelodge
external noise levels. The noise levels were significantly Architect JWA
higher than a typical building of this nature. Traditional Project value £15million
buildings have been refused planning permission for Dates Jan 2009
considerations to the influence of external noise on
the building. However, the design team engineered a Services Provided by Buro Happold
solution to mitigate the aircraft noise and maintain the
Structural engineering, ground engineering, fire, acoustics,
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hotel operator’s high standards for the hotels internal
environment. The design team has the necessary infrastructure, building services
knowledge to provide solutions for future noise
sensitive projects, like hotels, in sites that are subjected
to high external noise levels. The hotel commenced
16 trading in January 2009.

Buro Happold
Luckham Park Hotel and Spa
Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK

Lucknam Park New Spa is a £10m project to refurbish an
existing spa and provide new spa extension, along with
new staff facilities building, hotel kitchen refurbishment
and site infrastructure works, all within the grounds of
the exclusive Grade II listed Lucknam Park Hotel. The
spa will include three pools, eight treatment rooms,
thermal cabins, gym, restaurant, lounge, bar and
kitchen.

Buro Happold provided building services, structural and
civil engineering full design duties, pool performance
specification, thermal analysis and acoustic advice. The
building is highly serviced and the engineering design
has been closely integrated with the architecture,
interior designer and other specialists for feature
lighting and kitchens.

The spa extension has a dramatic glazed roof with
external brise soleil spanning indoor pool and indoor-
outdoor pool. The glazed roof provides daylight all
year, passive solar heating in winter, and solar control
in summer. At nighttime the brise soleil close as a
background for lighting effects.


Client Lucknam Park Hotel Ltd
Architect Holder Mathias Architects
Project value £10m
Date Completed Dec 2008


Building services engineering and structural
engineering, energy strategy.

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Kilternan Hotel and Country Club
Dublin, Ireland

The project comprises the upgrade and renovation of the existing
hotel and country club to a 4/5-star standard.

The hotel will comprise 200 bedrooms, a new banquet hall,
conference facilities, a spa and treatment centre and a fitness centre.
There will also be a a golf course together with a clubhouse and
apart hotel accommodation.

Sustainability and energy efficiency have informed the
environmental and building services strategy. The design response
to the brief has included comprehensive analysis of the building
envelope to minimise the need for air conditioning. Energy efficient
controls, heat recovery and variable speed drives have also been
incorporated into the building services scheme.

The interior lights solutions have focused on providing subtle pools
of light to create charm and mood.


Client Hugh O’Regan Images courtesy of heneghan.peng.architects

Architect Heneghan Peng Architects
Project value €80m
Dates Ongoing


Building services engineering, fire engineering, lighting, acoustic
engineering, IT, security, audiovisual, sustainability engineering
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Buro Happold
Radisson Edwardian Hotel
Manchester, UK

The conversion of this listed building, originally the Free
Trade Hall, one of Manchester’s most famous buildings,
to a 5* hotel.

The building’s listed Italianate facade had a number of
implications on the design of the hotel, including height
restrictions imposed at planning stage.

A sensitive retention and enhancement programme
was undertaken which included the construction of a
contemporary 16 storey building constructed as in situ
cross-wall construction using tunnel forms all within the
retained listed facade.


Client McAlpine Laing Joint Venture
Architect Stephenson Bell
Project value £30m


Structural engineering, ground engineering, fire
engineering design, inclusive design

Copyright: Buro Happold/Daniel Hopkinson
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Hotel America
Dubai, Abu Dhabi

Hotel America project is a signature Hotel Resort and • Sky Bar
Spa complex within the Bawadi Strip which lies within
the Dubailand area of Dubai. The client is Zabeel • Retail outlets
Properties, and the project is intended to be a landmark, • Condominium towers separated from the main Hotel
high specification, themed and branded entertainment Tower
facility based on the Jumeirah group specification.
• Basement car parking over three levels
The development comprises the following main
elements: The project has been designed to Schematic stage and
is currently on hold.
• 300 key five star hotel tower
• 2000 fixed seating theatre
Architect Graft
• Spa, pool and fitness facilities Client Zabeel Properties
• Multi Purpose Venue – sized to accommodate Project value £11m
various events. Dates Currently on hold

• 6 luxury Cinemas with a seating capacity of 30 to 40 Services provided by Buro Happold
people in each
Project management, building services, structural
• Themed restaurants engineering, infrastructure
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Buro Happold
Al Faisaliah
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The massive 245,000m2 mixed-use Al Faisaliah
development in Riyadh is one of the most striking
buildings in the Middle East. Its landmark office tower
rises 270m over the city, soaring to a tapered point in
one smooth giant arc. At its pinnacle the tower narrows
to a brightly lit lantern topped with a decorative
stainless steel finial.

The complex contains 30 floors of office space,
a five-star hotel with 224 bedrooms, residential
accommodation, a shopping centre with 120 stores, a
banqueting/exhibition hall for 4,000 guests, two levels
of underground car parking for 1,700 cars – and the
highest restaurant in the Kingdom. At ground level of
the office tower, a five-storey lobby with a petal roof
links the hotel to the apartments and shopping mall. The
lobby features a spectacular coloured glass wall which
is the largest artwork of its kind ever created. The wall
design is intended to reflect the natural environment of
Saudi Arabia.

The harsh climate in Riyadh presented a major
challenge for Buro Happold’s engineers. In particular
there was a sharp focus on energy conservation. Our
design makes extensive use of passive energy control
methods: a combination of carefully chosen glass in the
facade, various external shading systems and an air-
conditioning plant which uses ice in the cooling process
serves to minimise the amount of energy drawn from
the supply grid.

A Building Management System (BMS) controls all
engineering processes, monitoring and adjusting
individual elements to enhance operating efficiency and
living conditions.


Client King Faisal Foundation
Architect Foster + Partners
Date Completed May 2000


civil engineering, quantity surveying, project
management, fire engineering design and risk
assessment
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Le Royal Amman Hotel
Amman, Jordan

Le Royal Amman is a landmark five-star hotel, integrated
within a mixed use development. Located in the heart
of Amman, Le Royal is surrounded by spectacular land,
gardens, waterfalls, and seascapes of the Mediterranean
Sea.

Inspiration for the building design has come from the
Great Mosque of Samara in Iraq. Built between 848-852
AD it is the largest mosque of Islam.

The 31 level development comprises 232-key hotel over
12 levels, high end convention and banqueting facilities,
commercial offices, retail mall, cinemas, heath spa and
indoor swimming pools.

Buro Happold carried out the structural and building
services engineering design, as well as a monitoring role
associated with the building services installation and
commissioning.


Client General Mediterranean Holdings
Architect Richard Martinet


fire engineering design and risk assessment, M&E
quantity surveying
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Buro Happold
Tuwaiq Palace, Diplomatic Club
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Located in the Diplomatic Quarter in the north-west
of Riyadh, stands Tuwaiq Palace a complex originally
designed as a diplomatic club but now used by the
Saudi Government as a hospitality centre.

The facilities include a swimming pool, lounge area,
bowling alley, top quality restaurant and banqueting
rooms, with a gate house and ample parking. The
24,000m2space also includes a number of hotel rooms,
garden areas and a creche. The building was awarded an
Aga Khan Award.


Client Arriyadh Development Authority
Architect Frei Otto/Omrania
Project value £24m


Multi-disciplinary engineering services including:
structural engineering, building services engineering,
fire engineering and civil engineering.

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Grand Hyatt Hotel
Islamabad, Pakistan

The site is situated in the government enclave of
Constitution Avenue. The area is located at the southern
end of the main Kashmir highway.

The existing development to the west takes the form of
a modern convention centre whilst the eastern area is
likely to become a small car park serving the adjacent
natural woodland area.

The hotel is a 45-storey hotel and apartment tower
complete with 2 basement levels. There are 27 levels
of hotel accommodation, function suites, two lower
rise blocks of residential apartments, offices planned
over the basement car parking and retail facility,
management offices, energy centre and back of house
accommodation.

The scope of this significant project is planned on a site
footprint of approximately 48,000sm with a 195,000sm.

There is also an extensive undulating hard and soft
landscaped podium and infrastructure that responds to
the urban setting of the site.

Also included is a two storey retail podium.


Client BNP Group
Architect HOK Architects
Project value $150m


Infrastructure and environment, IT consulting,
security consulting, building service engineering,
structures, ground engineering, acoustic consulting,
facade engineering, fire engineering design and risk
assessment, sustainability and alternative technologies
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Buro Happold
Torre Iberdrola
Bilbao, Spain

With its visually impressive design, the tower is
a spectacular addition to the riverfront area of
Abandoibarra. Situated between the Guggenheim
Museum and the Euskalduna Palace Complex this work
adds to the further regeneration of this former industrial
riverside site.

The 165m high tower is mostly Office space with a Hotel
taking up the first 10 of 35 floors providing a total of
50,000m2 of floor space. The building design meets very
high sustainability standards having been awarded a
LEED platinum pre-certification by the USGBC.

Features include a double skin mechanically ventilated
façade, VRV connected to a common heat rejection
circuit (or energy loop) which optimises energy
consumption, variable fresh air rates to take advantage
of seasonal free cooling. The design was based on the
specification provided by the Spanish hotel operator,
ABBA Hotels.

Buro Happold, together with the architects, is providing
environmental, building services and structural design
for the tower before handing over the design to local
engineers. Buro Happold will retain a client advisory
role, together with full appointments and facade and
LEED consultancy.


Client Iberdrola and Parc Associates
Architect Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Dates Ongoing


Building services, structural engineering, facade
engineering, environmental engineering, LEED
Consultancy

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Holiday Inn Refurbishment
Munich, Germany

Originally built for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, the
hotel complex underwent a complete refurbishment in
time for the 2006 FIFA World Cup Championship.

The refurbishment was carried out while the hotel
continued to function. The work addressed technical
plants and facilities which defined the direction the
building activity would take.

The planning, which would incorporate the four
buildings of the complex, was chosen in a way that
allowed the refurbishment to take place within vertical
sections.

To guarantee successful planning the climatic system
needed to be changed from a centralised system to a
decentralised one. Decentralized supply units on top
of each building realise the energy supply from top to
bottom. This offered a separation of services between
the hotel rooms and the public areas of the ground floor.

Also included in the refurbishment were the provision
of fire protection and the complete refurbishment of the
technical assets of the 8,000m² underground parking
areas. These were additional services requested by
the client during the construction process and were
completed within a two-month period.


Client InterContinental Hotels Group
Architect Arcadis
Project value €35m


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Hotel Antonio Castro
Barcelona, Spain

Located in the city of Barcelona, this stunning new
development comprises 100m tall a 4-star hotel offices,
feature roof-top restaurant, glazed central atrium,
conference centre, sports complex and basement
parking.

Buro Happold provided structural engineering support
to Richard Rogers Partnership, eventually working with
local partners Alonso - Balaguer + Obiol & Brufau to
deliver the project in Spain.

The design incorporated efficient layouts for the hotel
floors including innovations on the servicing strategies,
as well as some innovative structural engineering in
various parts of the building. Distinguishing aspects
include the ‘bubble’ restaurant, feature external hotel
circulation cores, exoskeleton pre-cast frame and
suspended mezzanines within the office areas of the
main tower, volumetric structure atrium design, a
tensioned wire glazed end-wall to the swimming pool
hall and the combined use of timber & steel for the
conference hall roof.

The restaurant bubble roof includes a single layer steel
spherical grid-shell which was lifted as one piece into
position.


Client Antonio Castro Hotel Group
Architect Richard Rogers Partnership
Date 2004


Structural Engineering

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Begovaya
Moscow, Russia

This is a significant project of a speculative high quality
mid rise building totalling 66,600m2 with mixed use
consisting of speculative office space and a four level
hotel. The plot is situated on the intersection of the
city’s third ring road and a main arterial route between
Sheremetyevo International airport and the city centre.

The development contains Grade A office space and a
four level hotel in the mid rise building, multiple levels
of basement for 581 car parking spaces

The buildings fully glazed façade will provide an
impressive landmark from the adjacent roads and act as
a gateway to the city centreKey project information


Client Horus Capital
Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Project value $160-$200m TBC
Dates Ongoing


MEP Building Services
Hotel Capability

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Buro Happold
OVO
Wrocław, Poland

The sleek, curvy, contemporary and complex form of
the OVO, which will house a luxury Hilton Hotel and
service apartments, aims to be an iconic landmark at the
heart of plans to regenerate the city of Wroclaw into a
commercial and cultural centre. It has already won the
Retail & Leisure category at the 2008 Mipim AR Future
Projects Awards in Cannes.

The five-star, 420 room hotel will occupy the first three
floors of the OVO, providing guests with luxurious
facilities including speciality restaurants, a leisure spa
with swimming pool, a jazz club and ample parking.
Studio and penthouse apartments will occupy the upper
three storeys, which will be fitted out to a very high
standard. The garden will fill in the ground floor. The
building’s facade will be made from material which will
allow to keep its curved forms.


Client Wings Properties
Architect Gottesman-Szmelcman
and Broadway Malyan Polska
Project value Euro80m
Dates Due to be completed 2011


Structural engineering, building services engineering
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