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The JJ Mack Building
Category: Office buildings | Location: London
Focus: KERDI, KERDI-SHOWER, KERDI-LINE
JJ Mack Building: Farringdon’s sophisticated and sustainable office space
Just 150m from Farringdon Station, the JJ Mack Building on Charterhouse Street is marketed as ‘one of London’s smartest and most sustainable office buildings.’ With wellbeing as their priority, architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands have created a highly desirable place to work. Enhanced fresh-air systems, a building app and roof terraces are just some of the building facilities designed to improve the day-to-day wellbeing of its occupiers. In the bathrooms and changing areas, a variety of Schlüter-Systems’ products were specified to provide robust waterproofing and tile protection.
Smart, sustainable – and waterproof: modern office space for employee wellbeing
To ensure a reliable, waterproof installation, several components from the Schlüter-KERDI range were chosen, including the Schlüter-KERDI waterproofing membrane, Schlüter-KERDI-KERECK pre-formed external and internal corners, Schlüter-KERDI-MV pipe collars and Schlüter-KERDI-KEBA sealing band, all finished with the sealant adhesive Schlüter-KERDI-COLL-L. The floor drain systems Schlüter-KERDI-LINE provide simple and guaranteed bonded waterproofing to the building drains with the ready-to-tile shower board Schlüter-KERDI-SHOWER-LTS ensuring the quick and reliable creation of the necessary slope for appropriate shower drainage.
With sustainability high on the agenda, greywater is collected in the bathrooms from most of the showers and some of the taps. This greywater, together with rainwater, is then organically treated within the building and recycled to feed all of the toilet flushing systems. The JJ Mack building also features photovoltaic panels installed alongside a biodiverse green roof including bug hotels, bird and bat roosting spaces, and two bee colonies. All these ideas and efforts have paid off: The building was assessed as BREEAM Outstanding (2018) with an EPC ‘A’ rating at design stage.
If you’re wondering where the building name comes from...
JJ Mack was the owner of a grocery store that was formerly located on the corner of the site. The bold graphics on the new building are inspired by the original JJ Mack and Sons signage, and a plaque in the entrance lobby remembers those who lost their lives when the original building was bombed during World War II. With its rich past, there’s no doubt that the smart and sustainable JJ Mack Building is also well set for the future.
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