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6 Jan 2017
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UK Architecture Practice HKR Architects reaches final for International Design Competition
6th January 2017: Leading architecture and design practice, HKR Architects, credited as the only UK architectural firm to be a finalist in an open International Design Competition for DEWA?s new office headquarters in Dubai.

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) competition brief was to prepare a design for a building of International standing to meet the needs of its various departmental stakeholders within an over-arching principle of delivering a net Zero Energy Building. HKR?s initial response was to challenge DEWA?s own brief on overall size of development and the hierarchical needs of the business to deliver a ?smarter? building. HKR?s initial questioning sought to reduce the building volume by 30% by reducing the associated area of work space per person down to a more standard BCO provision, thus reducing significantly both capital cost at the outset and annual running costs ? a smaller building is more efficient to build and manage.

The practice also examined inter-departmental connectivity and associated building uses with the aim to ?compartmentalise? the building by department and activity to ensure functionality was not compromised during ?compr...