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One Albert Quay
One Albert Quay, Cork, is set to become Ireland’s flagship sustainable office development, designed to meet the relevant standards for a B1 BER (Building Energy Rating) Certificate and to achieve a Gold LEED Precertification Accreditation. Hager is pleased to be associated with this project , providing energy efficient lighting control solutions and wiring accessories. Hager KNX products, DALI gateways and Berker scene setting controllers are being used in several of the meeting and board rooms.
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One Albert Quay, designed to Gold LEED standards, is the most significant new office development in Cork City Centre in many years. It sets new standards in terms of design, scale and efficiency for both national and global companies who expect nothing but the best. It is designed by award winning architects Henry J. Lyons, and with its attractive glazed façade, provides breath-taking views of the River Lee and City Centre area.
As the smartest building in the country, you’d expect One Albert Quay to be at least at little bit of a show-off. It is, after all, a considerable head and shoulders above its counterparts in terms of new technology and clever innovation, and yet not even a whiff of smugness can be garnered from this outwardly modest, yet undeniably formidable, construction. Streetside, the facade is a wall of sheer glass, quietly reflecting the surrounding cityscape. Inside, the modern-yet-minimalistic theme continues — crystal clear windows extend from floor to ceiling while a glazed rooftop atrium maximises the amount of natural light. However, it is the technology that permeates each and every aspect of One Albert Quay that makes it truly unique. Hager products used in this project included klik 4 and 7 pin boxes, sensors, which provide energy efficient lighting control, and sollysta white moulded wiring accessories.
Tyco Ireland, a provider of multinational fire and security products, was the first company to move into the new development. “It is Ireland’s smartest, and I would say, coolest building. We have taken all the latest generation, best Tyco technology from around the world and deployed it in Albert Quay,” said Donal Sullivan, managing director of Tyco Ireland. “We have integrated our access control system with the intelligent lift system, for example, so we calculate the lowest energy way of delivering people to their cleared destination.”
When employees enter the building, they swipe their access card. This then assigns them to an elevator going to the floor the building knows they work on, thanks to the information on their key card. When the elevator descends, it generates energy which is then stored by Tyco to use elsewhere. “We can also heat map our population. It allows us to map energy consumption so we can see what energy we need in different zones at different times and can map that over time. That then allows us to buy cheaper energy because we can buy it at a lower price and consume it when we need to,” adds Mr Sullivan.
Another key aspect of the ‘smart’ building lies in its ability to read number plates on cars entering the underground car park. Cameras recognise Tyco registration plates to count how many are coming in and out. The company is in the middle of creating a mobile app so their employees can tell, before they come to work, if there are any car park spaces available. “We’ve also got some other car parking that we’ve secured in other car parks and with the app you will be able to know before you leave home where’s best to head to for a space. That’s pretty neat.”
In fact, every aspect of the building seems to have been completely thought out. The rooftop garden contains a pool table and a ping pong table while plans are in the works to get an outdoor TV fitted. The space also plays host to an outdoor meeting room called the ‘Think Pod’, for when the elusive Irish sun deigns to grace us with its presence.
Coffee docks are cleverly placed at the foot of each open staircase, away from the lifts, so as to encourage employees to get a bit of exercise by using the stairs each day. The restaurant, meanwhile, is cashless — employees load money onto their access cards and swipe them as payment.
Overall, the managing director said he is overjoyed with the building, as are his employees. “Happy doesn’t get close. We can’t stop smiling and gazing at the amazing views over Cork. These offices are a level that you would see in the best buildings in the world,” he said. “The look on the faces of our teams when they arrived to work on Monday morning… there was a sense of shock at just how good the building is and how fabulous the work spaces are. The views of Cork City are amazing and the building is so technically advanced and environmentally friendly that our engineering teams can’t believe their luck that they get to play with this technology.”
As the smartest building in the country, you’d expect One Albert Quay to be at least at little bit of a show-off. It is, after all, a considerable head and shoulders above its counterparts in terms of new technology and clever innovation, and yet not even a whiff of smugness can be garnered from this outwardly modest, yet undeniably formidable, construction. Streetside, the facade is a wall of sheer glass, quietly reflecting the surrounding cityscape. Inside, the modern-yet-minimalistic theme continues — crystal clear windows extend from floor to ceiling while a glazed rooftop atrium maximises the amount of natural light. However, it is the technology that permeates each and every aspect of One Albert Quay that makes it truly unique. Hager products used in this project included klik 4 and 7 pin boxes, sensors, which provide energy efficient lighting control, and sollysta white moulded wiring accessories.
Tyco Ireland, a provider of multinational fire and security products, was the first company to move into the new development. “It is Ireland’s smartest, and I would say, coolest building. We have taken all the latest generation, best Tyco technology from around the world and deployed it in Albert Quay,” said Donal Sullivan, managing director of Tyco Ireland. “We have integrated our access control system with the intelligent lift system, for example, so we calculate the lowest energy way of delivering people to their cleared destination.”
When employees enter the building, they swipe their access card. This then assigns them to an elevator going to the floor the building knows they work on, thanks to the information on their key card. When the elevator descends, it generates energy which is then stored by Tyco to use elsewhere. “We can also heat map our population. It allows us to map energy consumption so we can see what energy we need in different zones at different times and can map that over time. That then allows us to buy cheaper energy because we can buy it at a lower price and consume it when we need to,” adds Mr Sullivan.
Another key aspect of the ‘smart’ building lies in its ability to read number plates on cars entering the underground car park. Cameras recognise Tyco registration plates to count how many are coming in and out. The company is in the middle of creating a mobile app so their employees can tell, before they come to work, if there are any car park spaces available. “We’ve also got some other car parking that we’ve secured in other car parks and with the app you will be able to know before you leave home where’s best to head to for a space. That’s pretty neat.”
In fact, every aspect of the building seems to have been completely thought out. The rooftop garden contains a pool table and a ping pong table while plans are in the works to get an outdoor TV fitted. The space also plays host to an outdoor meeting room called the ‘Think Pod’, for when the elusive Irish sun deigns to grace us with its presence.
Coffee docks are cleverly placed at the foot of each open staircase, away from the lifts, so as to encourage employees to get a bit of exercise by using the stairs each day. The restaurant, meanwhile, is cashless — employees load money onto their access cards and swipe them as payment.
Overall, the managing director said he is overjoyed with the building, as are his employees. “Happy doesn’t get close. We can’t stop smiling and gazing at the amazing views over Cork. These offices are a level that you would see in the best buildings in the world,” he said. “The look on the faces of our teams when they arrived to work on Monday morning… there was a sense of shock at just how good the building is and how fabulous the work spaces are. The views of Cork City are amazing and the building is so technically advanced and environmentally friendly that our engineering teams can’t believe their luck that they get to play with this technology.”
