Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Building
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Stair and lift towers
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Fourteen-storey office facilities combined with existing Grade II listed façade and interiors focused around a central atrium
Set within a conservation area, access to Lloyd's Register is through a landscaped churchyard. The site is largely surrounded by existing buildings, including Grade II listed 71 Fenchurch St, which has been incorporated into the new headquarters and extensively restored.
The floor plates of the new building, comprising fourteen stories of office space and two basements, taper in response to the awkward geometry of the site to create a fan-shaped grid composed of vaults formed around two dramatic atria. This design allows daylight penetration and provides thermal buffers between the offices and the external environment.
The service cores are expressed as towers - two primary circulation cores face the churchyard, while secondary cores to the rear house toilets, good lifts and staircases, as well as main services risers.
The glazed façade is designed to maximise daylight while limiting solar heat gains in summer and heat losses in winter. In addition to double glazing, the east and west facades feature panels of motorised louvres which automatically control solar energy ingress.
Data
- Begun: Dec 1997
- Completed: Mar 2001
- Floor area: 3,400m2
- Sector: Office
- Total cost: £70M
- Funding: Private
- Procurement: Bespoke contract based on JCT 80 with contractor’s elements
- Address: 71 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 4BS, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
- Client: Lloyd’s Register of Shipping
- Project manager: Richard Ellis
- Main contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine & Son
- Structural engineer: Anthony Hunt Associates
- Fire consultant: Warrington Fire Research
- Planning consultant: Montagu Evans
- CDM Planning Supervisor: Symonds Travers Morgan
- Stonework Consultant: Carrig
- Lighting consultant: Lighting Design Partnership
- Asbestos Consultant: RPS Consultant
- Ergonomist: Michael Twist Associates
- M&E engineer: Arup
- Quantity surveyor: AYH Partnership
- Landscape architect: Edward Hutchinson
Suppliers
- Main concrete structure: O'Rourke
- Chilled beams: Trox
- Lifts: Kone
- Structural steelwork: Rowen Structures