City centre office will include energy-generating lifts
Willmott Dixon has chalked up a 拢33m office scheme in Bristol featuring a drone landing pad and lifts which generate energy when they descend.
The seven-storey, city centre building for local developer Cubex Land will be among the greenest offices in the UK, according to Willmott Dixon.
Designed by a team consisting of Assael Architecture and local practice The Bush Consultancy, the scheme, known as Halo, will see the former headquarters of the Avon Fire and Rescue Service demolished and replaced with 116,000sq ft of office space.
Others on the project team include project manager Jones Lang LaSalle, planning consultant Avison Young, engineer Arup, QS Currie & Brown and landscape consultant NPA.
It will be Willmott Dixon鈥檚 third scheme for Cubex Land having completed an office and separate housing scheme for the developer at a site opposite the Halo job.
Drone landing pads have been made a requirement on all of Cubex鈥檚 commercial projects. According to The Bush Consultancy project director Jarrad Owen, the idea is a 鈥渇uture-proofing element鈥� to ensure the buildings can receive drone-delivered parcels from distributors such as Amazon, who are developing the technology.
For Halo, Owen said that he suggested a larger landing pad for flying drone-taxis, which are currently being tested in the UAE.
He added: 鈥漁n this occasion the need is so far away from where we are now that it wasn鈥檛 feasible 鈥� but don鈥檛 be surprised if you see one on a building soon!鈥�
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