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A stunning office refurbishment of approximately
63,000 sq ft in the City of London.
ARCHITECTURAL
Excellence
The Helicon was built in 1996
and designed by renowned
architects Sheppard Robson.
In total the building provides
119,000 sq ft of offices over first
to eighth floors, with retail units
to the ground and first floors
currently occupied by Marks and
Spencer and HSBC.
Floors one to four and eight
have been refurbished to
provide modern, open plan
office space.
Headquarters
Reception
The newly refurbished double
height reception is finished to
an extremely high standard.
AN AREA
THAT KEEPS ON
SURPRISING
The Helicon sits on the corner
of Finsbury Pavement and South
Place, in a perfect location for access
to the best the City has to offer.
LOCATION
1
The major occupiers of the City sit within
a short walk of The Helicon. Transport
connections are excellent. Amenities are
here in abundance.
16
TRAVEL TIMEs FROM MOORGATE
STATION
minutes
Bank
02
London Bridge 04
King’s Cross / Eurostar
07
Euston
09
Paddington 20
Oxford Circus
16
Canary Wharf
16
City Airport
29
Stansted Airport 60
21
5
18
13
4
2 22
24
13
10
16
12 11
14
14
6
5
2
9 19
3
2
8
1
4
17
6 8
5
15
23
20
10
2 3
1
1
4
2
9
Walking TIMEs FROM THE Helicon
STATIONMINUTES
Moorgate
03
Liverpool Street
05
Bank
08
1
12
7
15
3
6
5
11
6
Travel times calculated from moorgate station, quickest route
available based on transport for london’s journey planner
4
3
7
Heathrow Airport
King’s Cross
& St. Pancras
27 MINUTES
FROM PADDINGTON
MAINLINE SERVICES
eurostar
Stansted Airport
52 MINUTES FROM
LIVERPOOL STREET
Old Street
MAINLINE SERVICES
Farringdon
Stratford
MAINLINE SERVICES
Crossrail
Liverpool Street
Moorgate
Oxford Circus
MAINLINE SERVICES
STANSTED EXPRESS
crossrail
Bank
Holborn
DLR
Canary Wharf
Cannon Street
1 Lloyds Banking Group
1 Corney & Barrow
1 Virgin Active
2 Bloomberg
2 POD
2 Great Eastern Hotel
3 Commerzbank
3 ESCA
3 The City Point Club
4 Davis Polk & Wardwell
4 Gaucho
4 The Brewery
5 EBRD
5 The Cellar Wine Bar
5 The Montcalm City Suites
6 PRA
6 Hawksmoor
6 South Place Hotel
7 Legal & General
7 Anthologist
8 RBS
8 South Place Hotel
9 UBS
9 Piccolino
RETAILERS
10 La Tasca
1 Hugo Boss
11 Deutsche Bank
11 Wasabi
2 TM Lewin
DLR SERVICES
12 Prupim
12 All Bar One
3 Molton Brown
4 Charles Tyrwhitt
London Bridge
53 MINUTES FROM
PADDINGTON
HOTELS/HEALTH CLUBS
10 Henderson Global Investors
Victoria
Gatwick Airport
Eating & drinking
Monument
MAINLINE SERVICES
Embankment
Occupiers
MAINLINE SERVICES
13 Macquarie Corporation
13 ITSU
14 Merrill Corporation
14 Starbucks
5 Marks & Spencer
City Airport
15 ING
15 Hotel Chocolat
6 Gap
26 MINUTES FROM
MOORGATE
16 Herbert Smith
16 Master Gunner
17 ICAP
18 Close Brothers
11
19 Western Asset
20 Cisco
21 Robson Rhodes
22 Markit
23 Stephenson Harwood LLP
24 Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi
CITY LIFE
The immediate location
provides ample entertainment
opportunities – even a spot of
‘wiff waff’ with colleagues!
HIGH SPEC
The floors and the reception have undergone a major
upgrade to provide an exceptional level of finishes and
specification.
The specification includes:
•S
tunning new reception
•4
pipe fan coil air
conditioning
•6
x glazed lifts
•F
ully accessible raised floor
– typical floor void 250mm
• Metal tile suspended ceiling
• LG7 compliant lighting
• 1 50 KVA Standby Generator
for tenants use
•T
ypical floor to ceiling
height 2.75m
•E
xternal terraces on levels
4 and 8
• Target BREEAM Very Good
• 3 x fire fighting lifts
• New cycle facility
incorporating 5 showers,
67 cycle spaces, drying room
and changing facilities
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PLANS NOT TO SCALE
FLOOR areaS
Floor plans
Second floor
8th Floor 7th Floor
6th Floor
5th Floor
4th Floor 3rd Floor 2nd Floor 1st Floor Ground Floor
Total SQ M 925.1 ORACLE
ORACLE
ORACLE
2,090.2 2,168.9 594.3 99.6 M&S/HSBC
5,878.10 SQ FT
9,958
–
–
–
22,499
23,346
6,397
1,072
–
63,272
6,397 sq ft
594.3 sq m
Floor plans
Third floor
Reception
23,346 sq ft
2,168.9 sq m
2,150 sq ft
200 sq m
16.5m
45.7m
ACCESS
9m
ACCESS
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PLANS NOT TO SCALE
Space Plans
Floor plans
3rd Floor –
UK Legal Space Plan
Fourth floor
22,499 sq ft
2,090.2 sq m
ACCESS
ACCESS
NIA 23,346 sq. ft
2,168.9 sq. m
170 workstations
– 1 person to 12.85 sq m
4 x 1 person offices
51 x 2 person offices
Support spaces:
29.6m
43.9m
ACCESS
ACCESS
Reception:
– 3 staff, Library
Meeting rooms:
3 x 16 persons
3 x 10 persons
4 x 8 persons
2 x 6 persons
3 x 4 persons –
informal meetings
in open plan areas
Breakout areas:
2 x 15 persons
Lockers: 216 in 6 bays
Copy centres: 4 No.
Comm. rooms: 2 No.
3rd Floor –
Open Plan
(Corporate) Layout
Eighth floor
9,958 sq ft
925.1 sq m
ACCESS
NIA 23,346 sq. ft
2,168.9 sq. m
268 workstations
– 1 person to 8.15 sq m
8 x 1 person offices
Support spaces:
ACCESS
ACCESS
Reception: – 3 staff
Meeting rooms:
3 x 16 persons
3 x 10 persons
7 x 8 persons
3 x 6 persons
3 x 4 persons –
informal meetings
in open plan areas
Breakout areas:
2 x 15 persons
Lockers: 216 in 6 bays
Copy centres: 4 No.
Comm. rooms: 1 No.
Specification
S pe c ifi c atio n
Domestic Water and Drainage
LIFTS
TEAM
The building domestic water and drainage systems
have been extended to new toilet facilities on the
refurbished office floors and provision is provided for
future extension to tenants’ facilities. New domestic
water and drainage services have also been provided
to the new basement showers.
Passenger Lifts – 6no. 16 person passenger lifts.
1250 KGS
Project Manager
Jones Lang LaSalle
Architect
John Robertson Architects
Fire fighting lifts – 3no. fire fighting 8 person
passenger lifts. 630 KGS
Services Engineers
Hoare Lea
Consulting Engineers
Cost Manager
Jones Lang LaSalle
CDM Coordinator
Lighthouse Surveyors
TOILETS AND WCS
Lighting and Emergency Lighting
Scope
This Cat A specification refers to Part L1, Part L2,
L3, L4, and L8 office floors. The works include the
refurbishment of the ground floor reception and
car park level CP1 comprising the provision of
cycle facilities.
Lift Lobby – Cove lighting with new linear fittings
and existing retained glass lifts.
Reception Desk – Monolithic Grey Corian with
leather inlay top.
Stainless steel skirting.
OFFICE AREA (CAtegory a)
Design criteria
Fan coil units manufacture has been selected using
EC/DC low energy motors which reduce energy
consumption to average 4 watts /m2 or 0.8 watts/
litre/second of supply air to achieve the BREEAM
rating ‘Very Good.’
An energy efficient lighting installation has been
provided complete with a fully addressable DALI
lighting control system and daylight sensing. PIR
detection has also been provided.
FCU’s control on air temperature in each zone. Each
Fan coil unit is connected to a Trend 963 Building
Management System.
Non maintained Emergency Lighting has been
provided to illuminate all notional exit routes via
standard light fittings with 3 hours back up batteries
with remote LED indicators. Battery re-charge period
from full discharge is 16 hours max.
Floors – metal tiled raised access floor with
600mm x 600mm tiles.
Design Parameters
Open Plan Offices 22 Centigrade +/- 2 centigrade
Category A – 1 person per 10 sq m with the ability
to be enhanced to support 1 person per 8 sq m on
all office floor plates. Means of escape is 1 person
per 6 sq m.
Typical raised access floor void of 250mm to
top of tile.
Circulation Areas 18 Centigrade minimum
Dimensions
Walls – Emulsion paint dry lined walls and fair
faced concrete columns.
Occupancy Ratio
Floor to ceiling heights are noted as below:
Eighth – 2.5m
Fourth – 2.78m
Third – 3.05m
Second – 3.18m
EXTERNAL
Main Entrance
Existing frameless glass screen with frameless
glass revolving doors and pass doors finished
with anodised aluminium surround to reveals
and soffits. Glass canopy over the entrance
with anodised aluminium surround and fret cut
aluminium lettering as building signage.
New external paving to demise of
building – Limestone.
Access is dda compliant. No call point. Assisted
entry for wheelchair users by reception staff who
have direct line of sight and there is full time
security guard assistance.
Video entrance system.
Façade
Existing double glazed windows.
RECEPTION AREA
Reception has been fully refurbished in accordance
with the following:
Floors – 1360mm x 500mm Balzac Limestone
(honed) and inset entrance matting.
Walls – white onyx backlit feature wall and GRG
textured feature wall.
Ceilings – painted plasterboard with ceiling troughs.
Lighting – Ceiling void of 450mm.
Ceilings – SAS 330 with plasterboard margins.
Noise CriteriaNC 38
Humidity Control Not provided
Casual Heat Gains assessed as follows
Lighting
12 W/m2
Occupancy
1 person / 10m2
Doors and joinery – glazed double doors from lift
lobby onto office floors, doors into WCs and end
cores white paint finish with 20% gloss, riser doors
white finish with 20% gloss.
Small Power
25 W/m2
Supply Air Provision
2.5 l/s/m2
Fresh Air
15 l/s/person
Signage – New statutory signage.
floor voids served directly from the landlords existing
Primary Fresh air is provided to the spaces via the
central ventilation plant, a lake of tempered, filtered
Skirtings and architraves – Egg shell paint finish.
COMFORT AND VENTILATION
Fresh air is introduced to the office areas via the
floor void, via floor mounted swirl diffusers. Air is
extracted from the space via return air bellmouths
located within the ceiling void adjacent to each core.
fresh air is introduced at low level from the floor void
via floor mounted adjustable swirl diffusers, which
rises collecting any contaminants and is exhausted at
high level via the ceiling void by the building central
extract plant.
Light fittings are designed to have high frequency
control gear with integral power factor correction
to 0.95. Diffusers are fabricated from TpA material
complying fully with building regulations.
Design Parameters
Offices
Circulation
Staircases
Toilets
Defined escape route lighting
Open Plan Areas
300-500 lux
100-200 lux at
floor level
150 lux at floor level
150 lux at floor level
1 lux
0.5 lux
There is capacity within the existing electrical
infrastructure to provide 65W/m2 small power to
one floor only.
General Power - LV power from the main LV switchpanel feeds tenant distribution boards in two risers
of the building, on each standard floor-plate.
Tenants Power provisions are as follows;
25 W/m2 small power
SPRINKLEr PROTECTION
12 W/m2 office lighting
10 W/m2 spare capacity at the risers
Comfort cooling and heating is provided to the
space via 4 pipe heating (4 pipe at perimeter only,
2 pipe internal to zones) and cooling Variable Air
Volume Fan Coil units each provided with individual
temperature control via an on board controller and
waterside control valves. Heating and Cooling
media is provided via dedicated distribution
systems from the existing building central heating
and cooling plant.
Each fan coil is responsible for maintaining comfort
conditions within its control zone, which have been
designed to current BCO guidelines to provide
maximum flexibility for a future tenants fit out. Air
is recirculated within the space utilising sheet metal
ductwork from each FCU to ceiling mounted linear
diffusers located within perimeter margins and
ceiling tiles, return air is facilitated by static linear
diffusers located within ceiling tiles.
The building is protected by a sprinkler installation
to BS5306 Part 2, Ordinary Hazard Part (OH3).
Please note this building is not registered to LPS 1048
scheme and as such void protection has not been
provided. Sprinkler heads are the concealed type
providing maximum coverage of 12m2 with discharge
density of 5.0 mm/min.
FIRE ALARM
The building is provided with a fully addressable
fire alarm system to category L1 which provides
full coverage. A pager system is also provided for
persons with hearing difficulties.
COMMUNICATIONS
Provision within risers has been made for tenant’s
incoming communications services from basement to
individual floors.
Refurbished self-contained WCs at each floor.
Floor – 600mm x 1200mm Domus Stonetech
Ceramic tiles.
Skirting – Stainless steel throughout.
Walls – Mixture of back painted glass and
white emulsion.
Ceiling – Painted plasterboard throughout.
Lighting and grilles – New lighting and grilles.
Cubicle doors – High gloss white laminate with
an oak trim.
Cubicle back panels – Back painted glass.
Mirrors – New mirrors throughout.
Vanity Units – New white Zodiac units throughout.
Splash backs – Back painted glass.
Wash Hand basins – New undercounter vitreous china.
Taps – New sensor control taps.
WCs & Urinals – New vitreous china throughout.
Toilet roll holders – Stainless steel.
DISABLED WC FACILITIES
WCs – New vitreous china throughout.
Handrails and grab bars – Stainless steel.
Disabled toilet alarm is installed in each disabled
WC/local audible and visual alarm/remote alarm
facility back to the reception desk.
WC LOBBIES
Floor finish – 600mm x 1200mm Domus Stonetech
Ceramic tiles.
Wall finish – Painted plasterboard finish.
Ceiling finish – Painted plasterboard.
WC Entrance Doors – Egg shell painted finish.
Lighting and grilles – New grilles throughout.
Escape STAIRCASES
Wall finish – Egg shell paint finish.
Ceiling finish – Egg shell paint finish.
CYCLIST FACILITIES
67 Cycle racks with repair area.
Separate male and female changing facilities including
lockers and showers and separate drying room.
BREEAM
BREEAM targeted rating – Very Good.
UPPER FLOOR LIFT LOBBIES
EPC
Floors – Existing Moleanos Limestone.
Walls – Existing glass walls to all sides.
Ceiling – Existing pre-cast concrete.
Doors – Existing framed in stainless steel with full glazing.
Lighting– New linear fittings.
An EPC rating of 67 has been achieved.
CONTACTS
Allsop
Jones Lang LaSalle
020 7588 4433
020 7248 6040
James Neville
James.Neville@allsop.co.uk
Jack Beeby
Jack.Beeby@eu.jll.com
Peter Lance
Peter.Lance@allsop.co.uk
Dan Burn
Dan.Burn@eu.jll.com
www.helicon-ec2.co.uk