Arup Associates was named Sustainable Designer of the Year in the Sustainability Awards 2010.
The practice also received The Sustainable Project of the Year (over £10m) award for the BSkyB HQ project in West London.
The Sustainability Awards are supported by the UK Green Building Council. They are the leading industry event recognising outstanding achievement in sustainability in the built environment.
Other recent examples of buildings by Arup Associates that have been recognised for their exemplary approach to sustainable design include the Ropemaker building for British Land, the FIFA 2022 Showcase for Qatar, Citi Bank Data Centre in Frankfurt and Druk White Lotus School in Ladakh, Northern India.
Arup Associates is one of the world's pioneering practices in sustainable design. From its inception in the 1963, the practice has gained a reputation for an innovative, relevant approach to sustainability that focuses on the human experience of a building.
Arup Associates was named Sustainable Designer of the Year in the Sustainability Awards 2010.
Together, Arup Associates architects and Arup engineers consider everything from the basics of building orientation, spatial configuration, building systems as well as cladding and façade shading systems through to radical and inventive solutions to new sustainability challenges.
Mike Beaven, Arup Associates’ leader of building services and environmental engineering says: “Sky and Arup Associates have aimed to make Harlequin 1 the world’s most sustainable broadcasting facility. Sky’s policy is that every watt counts.”
Together we’ve designed sustainability into every stage of the project, from energy consumption to energy production and harvesting – and expressed this in the powerful architecture and engineering of the building.”
Arup Associates was named Sustainable Designer of the Year in the Sustainability Awards 2010.
Arup Associates's 23,000m2 project for BSkyB project sets an international benchmark for sustainable architecture in the world of broadcasting. Named Harlequin 1, the building houses recording, post-production and transmission studios together with Sky’s broadcast and sports news departments.
Arup Associates opted for a natural ventilation strategy, making it their mission to resolve this type of cooling mechanism in a way that worked silently with the acoustically sensitive environments of broadcasting studios. The overall energy consumption was reduced by 67 % compared to business as usual.