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Bridge Plaza, Southside Reading

2Southside ReadingScott Brownrigg

Site Location ........................................3Design Brief .........................................5Design Code (Extract From Masterplan) ...................5Masterplan Character Areas ................5Ground Floor Plan On Site ..................6Typical Ground Floor Plan ...................7Floor Plate (1st, 2nd ............................7Area Schedule .....................................8Perspectives ........................................9Outline TechnicalSpecification ........................................11Client ...................................................14

Contents

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Site Location

Southside ReadingScott Brownrigg

Rail Links

Road Links Location

Reading is regarded as the pre-eminent business destination in the M4 located approximately 40 miles to the west of Central London. The combination of excellent road and rail links, proximity to Heathrow Airport and the extensive pool of highly skilled professionals have enabled the area to become synonymous with many international companies such as; Oracle, Microsoft, Logica, Energis, Cisco, Veritas, Yell and Prudential.

Southside Reading is prominently positioned fronting the A33 relief road and offers a new community of urban office buildings, a landmark location with a high profile position visible to thousands of people on a daily basis.

Southside is developing as an integrated, mixed-use community where workers and residents are located side by side making Southside an excellent choice to locate a new business.

www.southsidereading.com

Distances

Reading Railway Station – 1.8 milesM4 motorway Junction 11 – 1.4 milesHeathrow Airport – 22.5 milesCentral London – 40 milesM25 (Junction 15) – 24 milesGatwick Airport – 58 milesMaidenhead – 15 milesSlough – 19 miles

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Bridge Plaza


Masterplan Components

• 700,000 sq.ft. commercial Buildings• 800 residential units (phase1 on site)• Private Hospital• Hilton Hotel (on site) 200 bed completion 2008.• Shops, restaurants and Cafe culture being developed.• Landmark Bridge• Urban & landscaped setting in a high profile location.

Bridge Plaza

• High visibility on raised platform positioned looking over the A33.• A gateway location to the east of the A33.• A significant independent site with a unique setting.

Built

Hilton Hotel,Completion ‘08

Hospital, Start ‘07

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Bridge Plaza

Plot 16

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Plot 23

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Plot 6

Plot 3

Plot 1

Plot 5

ot 20

Plot 2

Plot 4

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Multi-storey Car park6 half deck levels


Masterplan Character Areas

This primary commercial plot is physically and visually linked across the A33 by the feature bridge and landscaping proposal. Comprising a dramatic four storey commercial façade which address the A33, this area is set at an upper level of +45 AOD. Demisable into up to 2 building plots with a communal 4-5 level deck car park, this area provides an impressive commercial location, co-existing with it’s western neighbour, Commercial Core One. The design intention is to use both sides of the A33, the bridge, landscaping and commercial buildings to create a gateway into Reading. Access to this commercial plot is from the future all moves junction and the treescaped commercial boulevard, by local bus or across the bridge from the MRT stop, only 200m away.

The landmark bridge connects, onto a quality hardscaped raised piazza. This piazza acts as the interface between the hotel, office, hospital and residential apartment districts. It is intended that mixed uses be provided at ground level, with cafés/restaurants and support facilities having direct access onto the piazza. These facilities are likely to grow and be sustained by the commercial and residential community.

Design Brief

A 1.17 hectare plot has been masterplanned to contain a high profile 138,000 sq.ft. 4 storey commercial office building designed around a highly flexible open plan office floor plate providing either a single building with a central glazed reception or 2 independent 4 storey offices linked by glazed 9m wide atria providing access to 2 independent receptions, stairs, lifts, toilet cores and independent floorplates.The building has also been designed to be multi let on a building by building, wing by wing or floor by floor basis. Car parking is to be provided at 1/46 sq.m. ratio air conditioned office space available Dec ‘08.

Design Code(Extract From Masterplan)

Phase 1 Commercial

The Hotel plays a key role in the early phases of the Masterplan by defining the entrance into the Southside Reading site, reinforcing the entrance boulevard off the A33, addressing and advertising the Masterplan development to all that use the A33, whilst reinforcing the Commercial Boulevard to the east.

The solid line style that indicates where built form should be placed is shown to reinforce these edges and corners of the plot. An important marker is established at the entrance to the commercial boulevard, seen from the Entrance square and the residential street to the north. The built form in this area should respond architecturally to the mass and height of the A33 residential buildings that are placed north of the entrance boulevard.

The solid lines where development should occur are also used to define the southern façade where, critically, the south facing piazza, Foudry Brook and retail street need a sense of enclosure and must be lined by a building façade. Activity such as the café, restaurant or spa facilities will allow possible ‘breakout’ space onto the piazza to occur in summer months, enlivening this piazza route through the scheme. A central entrance point into the hotel along the Commercial Boulevard enables adjacent plots to be accessed without compromising the highways

design guides.The Phase One commercial plot sitting at a strategic and highly visible point within the Masterplan comprises a key highly visible façade parallel to the Foudry Brook corridor addressing the A33 route at about 4-5 meters above the A33 road level. Solid lines indicate that the façades of these buildings must reflect the piazza space that links to the hotel site and also a very important urban marker that has been set up at the eastern edge of the plot seen from the mixed use core, Commercial Boulevard, piazza space and residential street.

The car parking deck over 4-5 storeys can be included within the overall plot table built to take advantage of the change in level to the southern boundary. A central hardscape boulevard within the plot acts as the focus to the entrances to each of the buildings whilst giving secure visibly policed control over the on plot car park.

An opportunity to over sail the bridge link is desirable to harmonise both ends of the bridge with a similar sense of arrival and protection space, crucial in providing a seamless transition between plazas and bridge environment. Two storeys of commercial floor plates provide the much needed vista stops both sides of the A33 to frame and direct key views across the A33 and beyond into both adjoining urban districts.

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Cafe


Ground Floor PlanOn Site

Bridge

A33HiltonHotel

PrivateHospital

FoudryBrook

B

A

Residential

Com

mer

cial

Bou

leva

rdResidential

Public Sq

• A Prominent position overlooking the A33.

• An elegant curved building that is flexibly planned.

• Car park and retail unit along the commercial boulevard.

• High profile entrance.

Future Development

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Car Park

Piazza


Typical Ground & First Floor Plan

WinterGarden

Core

15mDeep Space

18mDeep Space

Core

Cafe/ Restaurant

9m Atria

BDG B

BDG A

Entrance

Reception

Reception

Floor Plate (2nd& 3rd floor)

BDG B

BDG A

Core

Core

Atria

Escape

Escape

Escape

Escape

18mDeep Space

15mDeep Space

Spiral

‘Link’


Gross Site Area

Bridge Plaza

4,602sq.m2,789sq.m4,312.5sq.m

11,704sq.m2.892 acres1.17 hectares

Building A Areas

7,624sq.m GEA82,065sq.ft. GEA

448 to 635 occupants165 car spaces

Net Internal Areas

Ground 1,478sq.m 15,909sq.ft.First 1,478sq.m 15,909sq.ft.Second 1,551sq.m16,695sq.ft.Third 1551sq.m 16,695sq.ft.

A & B combined Areas

12,829sq.m138,092sq.ft.Atria 542sq.m 5834sq.ft.754-1068 occupants overall278 car spaces

Building B Areas

5,205sq.m GEA56,027sq.ft. GEA

306-433 occupants113 car spaces

Net Internal Areas

Ground 952sq.m 10,243sq.ft.First 952sq.m 10,243sq.ft.Second 1,025sq.m 11,035sq.ft.Third 1,025sq.m 11,035sq.ft.

Car Park Areas

278 cars overall provision14 dedicated disabled spacesplus27 cycle spaces (secure & covered)

Area Schedule

Site Plan Building A Building B Car park


Perspectives


EntrancePerspective


Outline TechnicalSpecification

Design Criteria - Based upon BCO 2005 guidelines

4 storeys 1/46sq.m car parking ratio18m deep space 9x9m grid15m deep space 7.5x7.5m grid1500mm planning module4.050m floor to floor2.800m top of raised floor to underside of suspended ceiling.150mm top of structured slab to top of raised floor.

The design will be developed to comply with building regulations current at the time.The design will be developed to meet BREEAM very good rating. The building will be to a CAT ‘A’ finish.Fire Engineering - Occupancy density of 1 person per 6sq.mSanitary Accommodation - 60% for each sex of nett office floor space occupied by 1 person per 14sq.m standard part M disabled WCs with integral shower cubicles and cleaners cupboards also provided. Building areas measured in accordance with RICS code of measuring practice (5th Edition)

Structural Design Criteria

Office Areas Superimposed & Partitions 4.0KN/sq.m (3.0+1.0)Reception Superimposed 4.0KN/sq.m (3.0+1.0)Core Areas Superimposed 2.0KN/sq.mPlant Rooms Superimposed 7.5KN/sq.m

External Walls

• Feature wall solid brick punched hole window design• Curtain walling double glazed thermally broken aluminium polyester powder coated floor to ceiling glazing.• All glazed external escape stairs.

External Roofing

• Flat roof behind brickwork parapet with single ply or concrete slab/ballast finish.

External Architectural Metalwork

• Polyester powder coated galvanised mild steel.

Internal Reception

• Natural stone flooring with entrance matting, all glass revolving and side pass door.• Feature spiral stairs and main stairs to landing.• 8 person lifts with disabled access

Internal Offices

• 1.5m primary window mullion module.• Raised access floor (MOB medium grade)• Mineral fibre suspended ceiling on an exposed 15mm regular grid.

Internal Toilet Cores

• Quality matt ceramic wall and floor tiles• Natural stone vanity tops• Counter sunk white sanitary ware and chrome finish fixtures and fittings.• Mirror wall feature above vanity units.• Disabled toilets in accord with building regulation requirements.

External Landscape Finish

• 6m perimeter hardscaped environment allowing maintenance access to complete perimeter of all structures.• Central access entrance to buildings with high quality tree/hedge/water features.• Quality block paved parking and roadways and granite effect kerbs and public spaces.• Quality lighting * All external lighting, materials and design to coordinate with masterplan public realm to contribute to a unified high quality environment.• Cycle, refuse and recycling stores provided within new multistorey system built car park, servicing site.

Service Provision

Power: Distribution boards to each floor for tenant’s fit out providing 25sq.m average (net floor area)Floor Boxes: An allowance for floor boxes is included.Air Conditioning: The office are to be provided with four pipe fan coil units located within the ceiling voids zoned per floor in line with BCO recommendation.Services: Electrics, gas, water, telecom and cable services will be provided to each building off the local distribution network.

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A joint venture between Prudent and Thames Water.

Agent

Damian CronkStrutt & Parker13 Hill StreetBerkeley SquareLondonW1J 5LQ

020 7318 5065

Keith WiseCampbell Gordon50 Queens RoadReadingBerkshireRG1 4HU

0118 959 7555


Client

Important notice

1.Particulars: These particulars are not an offer or contract, nor part of one. You should not rely on statements by Strutt & Parker and Campbell Gordon in the particulars or by word of mouth or in writing (“information”) as being factually accurate about the property, its condition or its value. Neither Strutt & Parker nor any joint agent has any authority to make any representations about the property, and accordingly any information given is entirely without responsibility on the part of the agents, seller(s) or lessor(s).2.Photos etc: The photographs show only certain parts of the property as they appeared at the time they were taken. Areas, measurements and distances given are approximate only.3.Regulations etc: Any reference to alterations to, or use of, any part of the property does not mean that any necessary planning, building regulations or other consent has been obtained. A buyer or lessee must find out by inspection or in other ways that these matters have been properly dealt with and that all information is correct.4.VAT: The VAT position relating to the property may change without notice.5. Details are correct at time of publishing.

Nigel AslinStrutt & Parker100 Longwater AvenueGreenParkReadingRG2 6GP

0118 945 0333

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