COFRA, New York, NY
WB Engineers completed the mechanical, electrical and plumbing design for COFRA Group’s new 22,500-square-foot office at 277 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The new office for the European-based investment conglomerate will house the COFRA Holding AG Division, in addition to three other companies that fall under the COFRA Group umbrella. The project was designed to meet the gold-level LEED-certification standards.
The project posed an interesting challenge because we had to coordinate our green MEP design with the entire building’s traditional system. WB’s design for COFRA worked to minimize the load imposed on the base building HVAC system through various measures including utilizing a window film to reduce solar heat gains as well as a fully automatic shading system that is configured to reduce solar heat gain during peak hours. The interior variable volume air system distrubition was also designed to provide more precise zoning to allow the airflow to be reduced to the maximum area possible when spaces are not occupied. .
In addition, the lighting controls included a fully automatic daylight harvesting system in order to minimize electrical lighting loads for the space.
Architect:
Perkins + Will
New York, NY
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