esigned by BMJ Architects for Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS Trust, the eye-catching three storey building provides a 21st century office environment for clinical and administration staff, accommodating 1200 desks and 110 touchdown areas.
Now operational as part of Scotland’s most significant new healthcare facility in years, the building is the realisation of the architect’s goal to provide a high quality, modern, working environment designed to strengthen working patterns and encourage more collaborative, integrated and cross-functional activity amongst teams.
Key to delivering this high quality environment was to optimise natural daylight within office spaces. CMS worked with the architect and main contractor BAM Construction to achieve this, creating toplit atriums which allow natural light to reach the deepest part of each floor. The ribbon windows design is key to maximising daylight too, with each elevation featuring windows manufactured by CMS using the Metal Technology System 4-20 thermally broken aluminium system, finished in graphite grey (RAL 7024).
These windows feature solar control glazing units, which utilise Saint-Gobain’s COOL-LITE SKN glass for balanced solar gain and thermal insulation, ultimately delivering a consistently comfortable working environment all year round.
The intelligent glazing design and specification reflects the architect’s holistic design approach which was used ‘to integrate high efficiency, low energy mechanical and electrical building services within a high performance building envelope’. This includes integrating other low carbon and renewable energy technologies in the building, such as PV (photovoltaic) panels on the roof.
The new office building sits alongside the hospital’s new £27m state-of-the-art Teaching & Learning Facility, a project which CMS was also instrumental in delivering. Again, designed by BMJ Architects and delivered by main contractor BAM Construction, it is a facility that provides an educational environment consistent with today’s world-leading healthcare ambitions.
The new teaching facility has been developed jointly by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and The University of Glasgow. It will provide a training facility for undergraduate doctors and postgraduate medical staff.
The centre will also house a stratified medicine facility capable of undertaking whole genome DNA sequencing to identify optimal treatments for patients with chronic diseases including cancer, cardiovascular and inflammatory conditions.
CMS was contracted to manufacture and install almost 400m² of Metal Technology curtain walling incorporating System 5-200 doors, and 68 tilt and turn windows, as well as splayed feature pod round windows – all of which feature COOL-LITE SKN 154 glazing to deliver solar control with thermal insulation.
