St James's Place Headquarters

The new St James’s Place Headquarters

The new St James’s Place Headquarters, a state-of-the-art 45,000 sq ft office development in Cirencester, used Levolux Western Red Cedar Brise Soleil external shading solution to keep the building cool for employees, enhance its architectural appearance and reduce solar glare.

Levolux products were the perfect way to combine the need for shading with the contemporary ‘green’ design of St James’s Place, which comprises two office wings and a three-storey linear atrium.

All of the timber used for Levolux’s Louvres comes from sustainable resources, and for this application, western red cedar has been made into 300mm wide Fins. Western red cedar is often chosen for external applications as it is readily available, stable, relatively lightweight and may be installed without applying additional finishes. Over time, it also takes on an attractive silvery grey colour.

Contractor Moss Construction, on behalf of Stride Treglown, briefed Levolux to provide extensive shading through horizontal and vertical stacks of Fins around the exterior of the development. With many different elevations and angles to shade, Levolux were employed to provide their design expertise on how exactly to achieve optimum shading.

By using Levolux products, up to 95% of solar heat gain can be excluded from the building - allowing substantial savings in air conditioning costs, both initial capital costs and on-going running costs. The Fins are spaced so that natural daylight is still filtered into the building and exceptional outward visibility retained whilst shading the glazing.

Like all systems from Levolux, solar shading is backed with the company’s design, manufacture and installation package.

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