海角视频

RMZ One Boat Club

Pune, India

海角视频 is helping to transform a complex vision into a high鈥憄erforming reality, delivering an integrated design where sustainability, resilience and engineering excellence converge to create one of Pune鈥檚 most forward鈥憈hinking commercial landmarks.

RMZ One Boat Club is a new Grade A commercial tower on the south bank of Pune鈥檚 Mula鈥揗utha river. Conceived with a people and planet friendly agenda, the development brings together high-performance engineering, careful urban placemaking and a strong sustainability ambition that threads through every decision. Developer RMZ is targeting USGBC LEED Platinum and WELL Gold, with pre鈥慶ertification already secured, and has asked for a design that balances views, daylight and comfort with resilient, low鈥慹nergy operation.

We are working closely with the wider design team, led by Gensler, with 海角视频 providing a range of multidisciplinary services spanning structures, facades, building services (MEP), sustainability, energy consulting, fire engineering, vertical transportation, infrastructure (including flood risk) and traffic management. The building offers around one million square feet of leasable space above three parking basements, with a roof鈥憀evel plant and a small restaurant. At ground level a publicly accessible 鈥渟ocial bazaar鈥� creates a thoroughfare between two roads, opening the riverfront to the city and giving the scheme a civic presence.

We delivered an integrated design approach, aligning structure, MEP, and sustainability to target LEED Platinum and WELL Gold.

Our team used advanced modelling for facade shading and energy optimisation, cutting heat gain by more than 50% while improving daylight performance.

Our experts embedded flood resilience and climate analysis into the design, safeguarding critical systems and enhancing long-term operational security.

This iconic project blends sustainability with engineering excellence, featuring a cantilever helical ramp, Y-shaped columns, and an eccentric core with perimeter framing.

We optimised embodied carbon in a steel structure through rigorous material strategies, balancing spatial flexibility with sustainability goals.

Challenge

Working within a compact, riverside plot demanded an exacting approach to massing, structure and envelope. The client wanted the core offset to one side to preserve uninterrupted river views from office floors, which introduced torsional demands and stability questions for the structural strategy. At ground level, the social bazaar required a largely column鈥慺ree space to keep circulation open and flexible for public events, markets and community activity. This drove a preference for a steel solution in the ground storey to achieve slender columns and generous headroom, while acknowledging the embodied carbon implications and the need for rigorous optimisation.

The riverfront location heightened flood resilience requirements. Protecting critical building systems meant rethinking basement layouts, levels and ingress pathways, and treating basements to mitigate water risk so emergency and life鈥憇afety plant would remain operable in extreme events.

The wider Pune context adds live issues around air quality, heat stress in summer months, high monsoon humidity and evolving seismic standards, all of which shape envelope, ventilation and operational strategies as well as the certification pathway. Ambition also created complexity.

Targeting LEED Platinum and WELL Gold set a high bar for energy performance, daylight quality, materials stewardship and occupant wellbeing. Late鈥憇tage specification checks revealed that aspects of the HVAC selection needed to be strengthened to meet the LEED energy credit thresholds. Aligning RMZ鈥檚 corporate ESG goals and their investors鈥� decarbonisation criteria with real鈥憌orld procurement and delivery required tight coordination across all disciplines.

Solution

We led the project with a lens, using early鈥憇tage climate and microclimate analysis to inform passive design. Shoebox modelling and parametric studies tested window鈥憈o鈥憌all ratios and fixed external shading by orientation. The preferred cases reduced envelope heat gains by up to 57.7% compared to unshaded baselines, with corresponding improvements in cooling capacity and energy use intensity, while maintaining LEED daylight metrics. This work gave the architect clear geometries for Jali鈥憈ype shading on the most exposed facades and established angles and projection factors that now underpin the detailed facade design.

Facade optimisation sits alongside a high-performance envelope specification and cool roofs to limit solar load. Computational fluid dynamics at pedestrian level helped shape ground鈥慺loor edges and apertures to mitigate wind shadow on the west and to accelerate air movement where comfort benefits could be gained. The analysis informed strategies such as perforated screening and targeted windbreaks that improve natural ventilation potential for lobby and outdoor seating areas.

Flood resilience measures were designed into the basement architecture. Critical plant and pump rooms are located at higher basement levels, with water鈥憆esistant construction and defined ingress management to protect services in low鈥憄robability events. The approach is supported by a site鈥憌ide stormwater and rainwater strategy, dual plumbing for recycled water, and metering to track consumption and performance.

Energy consulting and MEP strategy work in tandem. Envelope and passive shading first reduce demand, then efficient water鈥慶ooled chillers, advanced metering, demand response readiness and sustainable refrigerants lift performance to meet LEED energy credits. On鈥憇ite photovoltaics are planned, with roof pergola configurations offering greater generation potential than exposed terraces, and the scheme is designed to maximise feasible installed capacity and to integrate with clean power purchase off site to meet RMZ鈥檚 renewable and carbon targets.

Material and structural choices were continually checked against embodied carbon targets. Where the steel solution at ground level best served spatial and placemaking outcomes, the structures team ran optimisation to limit tonnage and worked with procurement to source lower鈥慽mpact steel and concrete, supported by Environmental Product Declarations. Circular construction and operational waste plans, and local sourcing where practical, reinforce reductions across the whole life cycle.

This iconic project blends sustainability with engineering excellence, featuring a cantilever helical ramp, Y-shaped columns, and an eccentric core with perimeter framing. Its advanced flat slab system ensures efficiency, while a striking structural steel framework at the terrace supports architectural fins, creating a bold and distinctive skyline presence.

Human health and wellbeing were considered throughout. Daylight, views to the river, filtered outdoor air, MERV (minimum efficiency reporting value) filtration, low鈥慥OC (volatile organic compounds) materials and active travel facilities support WELL features. Outdoor thermal comfort mapping using UTCI (Universal Thermal Climate Index) guided canopies, planting and shaded walkways so occupants and visitors can move comfortably between transit points, the bazaar and entrances during critical daytime hours.

Value

RMZ One Boat Club demonstrates how integrated engineering delivers more than the sum of its parts. The eccentric core and compact footprint could have been limiting factors; instead, close collaboration between our structural, facade and MEP specialists turned constraints into performance 鈥� a slimmer ground structure, better鈥慴alanced energy and daylight, and resilient basements that safeguard operations. The public realm concept is strengthened by engineering that enables a generous, column鈥憀ight bazaar and a comfortable microclimate, advancing RMZ鈥檚 vision of an open, community鈥慺acing destination.

Our early鈥憇tage analytics de鈥憆isked decisions, shortened design iteration and created a clear certification roadmap. With LEED Platinum and WELL Gold targets embedded across disciplines, we built a practical action plan and scorecards, highlighting key dependencies such as enhanced commissioning, advanced metering and renewable integration. This transparency helps the client steer tendering and cost optimisation, and it gives investors confidence that ESG commitments are being met in ways that are measurable, auditable and future鈥憆eady.

The focus on passive measures and demand reduction reduces plant sizes and operational costs, while PV and clean energy procurement cut carbon intensity from day one. Material optimisation and supply chain due diligence drive down embodied impacts without compromising programme or functionality. In a city facing heat, monsoon extremes and air quality challenges, the project鈥檚 resilience and wellbeing measures represent tangible risk reduction and improved experience for tenants and visitors. Finally, the scheme aligns strongly with RMZ鈥檚 own sustainability messaging, with the design translating these aspirations into a coherent, buildable solution that is responsive to Pune鈥檚 climate and culture. With tendering now nearing completion and facade information advancing, the project is positioned to move into delivery with a clear technical and sustainability brief 鈥� and with a public realm that will become part of Pune鈥檚 riverside fabric.