海角视频

Worship Square

Shoreditch, London

Working in close collaboration with the wider design team, 海角视频 played a central role in shaping Worship Square鈥檚 performance-led approach, delivering the building services and sustainability strategy that underpins the project鈥檚 net zero carbon and wellbeing ambitions. 

Working in close collaboration with the wider design team, 海角视频 played a central role in shaping Worship Square鈥檚 performance-led approach, delivering the building services and sustainability strategy that underpins the project鈥檚 net zero carbon and wellbeing ambitions. 

Located in the heart of Shoreditch, London鈥檚 bustling tech district, Worship Square is a major new commercial space defined by its focus on sustainability and wellbeing. It is international workspace provider HB Reavis鈥� most sustainable building to date, and is net zero carbon in both construction and operation.  

海角视频 was engaged from stage four of the project, developing building services (MEP) engineering and sustainability consultancy to ensure the project achieve its ambitious targets. The design team delivered BREEAM standard of 鈥渙utstanding鈥�, thanks to its industry-leading approach to sustainable workspace. 

Worship Square聽has聽set聽a new standard for a truly sustainable workspace, proactively supporting businesses and employees to meet environmental goals.聽

The project聽has created聽a net zero carbon building in both construction and operation,聽achieving聽5* NABERS rating聽and BREEAM Outstanding certification. 聽

The building is designed to reduce embodied carbon by more than 50% compared to current industry benchmarks.聽

This reduction is equivalent to the average yearly carbon emissions for 3,000 homes.聽

Challenge

Embodied Carbon at Worship Square is more than 50% lower than the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) 2020 baseline and 18% lower than the 2030 GLA (Greater London Authority) target, setting a new benchmark for the city. It has achieved full net zero carbon status, BREEAM outstanding, EPC rating A, WELL gold/platinum and NABERS 5*. 

Worship Square has also been designed to promote employee wellbeing, including a fitness studio, private and communal gardens, state-of-the-art end-of-journey amenities, in-house bookable Brompton bicycles, a destination restaurant and a ground floor, plant-filled lobby with an openable facade leading on to a new public square, which will host a full calendar of events. 

Smart tech forms the backbone of Worship Square, which has already received WiredScore platinum and is one of only three schemes globally to achieve SmartScore platinum. As well as an in-house occupier app, businesses will be able to monitor, and report live energy use and water consumption data, helping to continually improve and make the building as energy efficient as possible. Diverse routes of power and wifi will cover all common areas including the terraces and public square to ensure connectivity resilience to allow people to work anywhere, uninterrupted. 

海角视频 was brought into the project midway through and one of the key challenges for our experts was to deliver on a design that had been initiated and tendered for by a different team. 

Alongside the technical ambition, the project sought to reconcile industry-leading environmental performance with the expectations of a premium, flexible workplace in a highly competitive market. Delivering net zero carbon in both construction and operation required rigorous coordination across disciplines, careful material selection and continuous performance tracking, all while maintaining commercial viability and programme certainty. This demanded a holistic approach, balancing embodied and operational carbon reduction with occupier comfort, adaptability and long-term asset value.

Solution

We worked closely with the wider design team, including MAKE Architects and JM Architects, to ensure the building services infrastructure would meet all expectations and support the project in its ambitions around both sustainability and occupier wellbeing. We revised the original building services design, making a range of significant system improvements, liaising with manufacturers to find products that would fit best with the design for ventilation, heating, cooling and other internals systems. 

Operational energy use is reduced through air source heat pumps, which creates efficient heating and cooling delivery, smart modelling, and photovoltaic cells on the roof to provide onsite renewable energy. 

We embedded performance-led design principles at every stage, enabling environmental targets to directly inform engineering decisions. This included optimising the building fabric to reduce energy demand, integrating all-electric systems supported by the high-efficiency air source heat pumps, and refining system strategies to minimise distribution losses and unnecessary embodied carbon. Digital modelling and ongoing analysis allowed us to test, validate and improve performance, ensuring alignment with the building鈥檚 NABERS and UKGBC trajectories. 

Equal emphasis was placed on creating a workplace that actively supports health and wellbeing. A comprehensive indoor environmental quality strategy was developed, combining high levels of fresh air, low-emission materials and continuous monitoring of air quality metrics to maintain optimal conditions. This is complemented by biophilic design integrated at scale, from the 鈥榞reen heart鈥� lobby to biodiverse terraces, alongside user-controlled environments enabled through smart technologies. Together, these measures create a responsive workplace that not only reduces environmental impact but enhances productivity, comfort and day-to-day experience for occupiers. 

With more than 3,200 plants from over 49 different species, Worship Square鈥檚 biophilic design provides purer air while blurring the lines between outdoors and the inside space. The nature-led expansive terraces mean that working from the office doesn鈥檛 always have to be indoors. As well as increasing biodiversity and attracting pollinators, the large rooftop communal terrace will include urban allotments where employees can take gardening lessons to learn how to grow their own produce and a wormery to transform employees鈥� organic waste into compost for the terraces. 

The building provides around 120,000ft虏 of workspace and more than 9,000ft虏 of terracing and is designed to allow businesses to grow organically within the space. This includes a range of collaborative and flexible on-demand spaces from desks, studios and offices to meeting rooms, event spaces and an auditorium.

Value

Completed in early 2024, HB Reavis put a design strategy in place to create a workplace that is both future-facing and user-centric in its design and operation. Inspired by local architecture, Worship Square鈥檚 eye-catching looks and blue facade, designed by MAKE Architects, creates a recognisable local landmark and gives the building a distinct identity. 

Our multidisciplinary team of experts worked closely with the wider design teams to ensure the building鈥檚 services are at the heart of its ambition to provide a sustainable and forward-looking working environment. 

The result is a high-performance workplace that demonstrably aligns environmental responsibility with occupier wellbeing, setting a new standard for sustainable, people-centred office design in London.