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Insight from Apex Hotels: Building a new green hotel in London
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• Replacement superstructure: £1.44m
• Demolition timescale: 3 months
• Re-construction timescale: 6 months
• Saving in preliminaries for 9 months: £900,000
• Total circa £2.34m
• Reduces clients borrowings, reduces clients interest costs, allows for earlier opening and earlier income.
Structure
ENVELOPE
Envelope
• Existing envelope:
• Single glazed, steel window frames, no insulation= poor thermal and acoustic performance
• Limited depth between building line and face of structure
• Limited scope for solar shading
• Hotel does not require even daylighting throughout
• Scope to reduce extent of windows and increase higher performing solid wall
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