🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 The Hive

Northern green

Winner of 2011 ‘Best Office in the North’, The Hive is a green workspace forerunner with a real creative buzz.

📍Location

Northern Quarter, Manchester

🏢Building Details

• 80,000 sq ft Grade A office space – 6 floors

• Developed in 2009; substantial refurb in 2021

• Winner of 2011 ‘Best Office in the North’ Award (BCO)

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Contractor

• Oliver Butler – Former Project Manager @ Argent LLP

• Keith Bailey – Investment Director @ Grosvenor

• Lea Whitehurst – Managing Director @ Bardsley Construction Limited

✍️Architects & Engineers

• John Crellin – Associate & Architect @ 5plus architects

• Carly Grice – Former Director @ 5plus architects

• Simon Millington – Founder & Director @ Incognito

• Ian Stevenson – Architectural Project Manager @ Bailey Street Furniture Group

🌱Sustainability

• BREEAM Excellent + EPC A

• Natural ventilation system: motorised louvres open to cool building at night with night cooling dampers + weather resistant ventilation

• Solar sharing: 45m long façade screen fixed along southeast face filters sunlight

• Low water use measures including self-closing taps, leak detection facilities and low flow fixtures and fittings

• Highly efficient utilities including Wessex fully modulating boiler = next generation boiler technology, manufactured in the UK

🥦 Wellbeing

• 2.9m floor-to-ceiling height windows for excellent natural light + smart lighting system with zone control and presence detection

• Fully integrated Cycle Hub: spacious + secure internal bike store with changing facilities, cycle repair station, showers and ‘vanity area’

• Welcoming arrival experience across 2 hotel-grade receptions

• Roof terraces on the 3rd and 4th floors

🎈Bonus feature

The building benefits from Grosvenor’s Green Leases. These include added clauses and commitments for landlord and tenant to partner to continuously monitor and improve the building’s performance. A strategic pathway to be even greener.

🔗 Check it out http://5plusarchitects.com/projects/the-hive-manchester/