Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, PC

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Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates creates architecture that is implicitly sustainable in its capacity to endure. By designing projects of the utmost quality, contextual sensitivity, flexibility, and performance, we produce work that not only succeeds in the near term but also builds value over time.

KPF worked with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to develop the “Energy Optimizer” air-conditioning system, which has a central intelligent control, energy consumption monitors, and collects data and analyzes it for day-and-night and seasonal variations to provide a baseline for energy-saving adjustments. The elevators use a passenger smart card system to maximize the efficiency of vertical transportation by assigning lifts to groups of people with similar destinations, minimizing both waiting times for lifts, and wasteful starting and stopping of the cabs.

Extensive consultation was held with Unilever employees to develop a design to provide high-quality office space that responds to the company’s operational requirements while retaining important parts of the building to safeguard its historic character.

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