BIRMINGHAM The Colmore Building
2 3 The Colmore Building is situated at the heart of Birmingham’s business district, ensuring excellent connections and a wealth of amenities. Providing class leading office space with superior occupier facilities, The Colmore Building is already home to many established high profile businesses and combines stunning new arrival and meeting space, with comprehensive concierge facilities and an on-site gym.
Offering 310,000 sq ft of premium, highly efficient office space, The Colmore Building is a proud backdrop for businesses looking to achieve more.
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The Colmore Building has been carefully designed to create an engaging workspace for occupiers and visitors alike. Businesses based here welcome clients into a professional and social space finished to a premium specification. Neutral tones enhance the quality of the building which is unparalleled in Birmingham.
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IMPRESSIVE ENTRANCE
The spacious, contemporary reception designed by renowned architectural practice MoreySmith, is complemented by the striking feature leather wall and artwork, offering an unrivalled reception experience. A relaxing seating area sits within the double height space, leaving a lasting impression.
"Our vision was to transform The Colmore Building into a contemporary, modern workplace, creating an inviting and stimulating environment in which its tenants and visitors can thrive."
— Linda Morey-Burrows, Principal Director, MoreySmith
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& MORE COFFEE HOUSE
The ground floor& MORE coffee house offers not only a selection of eating in and ‘on the go’ options, but provides informal meeting space for both occupiers and visitors. Its carefully considered, contemporary interior ensures the ideal ambience to ignite conversation or enjoy a quiet moment.
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MORE FACILITIES
The Colmore Building offers the best amenities offer further convenience for occupiers including of any office building in the city. In addition to dry cleaning and beauty treatment rooms. Cyclists & MORE, occupiers can enjoy the expansive gym can secure their bikes in the new bicycle store – allowing them to schedule their work-out around situated in the 100 space private carpark. If needed, Left page: Bike store the working day – and the luxury male and female additional car parking facilities are available within changing facilities. Class leading concierge services the adjacent B4 car park. This page: Showers Changing rooms
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This page: would match not only our current Gym requirements but which could fuel our ambition. The Colmore Building does just that.”
— Richard Beverley, Managing Partner (Birmingham), Freeths
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Situated on an elevated site, the 14-storey building enjoys spectacular views and is a prominent city landmark. Birmingham is one of the most exciting and vibrant young cities in Europe, recently named as the ‘Top City in Western Europe to invest’ in The World’s Most Competitive Cities Report 2015. Occupiers can enjoy high quality restaurants, bars, galleries and cultural delights.
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ROTUNDA THE CUBE
ST PHILIP’S CATHEDRAL HS2 CONSTRUCTION HQ
GRAND CENTRAL
NEW STREET STATION THE BULLRING
PwC PINSENT MASONS GOWLING WLG DWF
KPMG RBS
AON RSA
DIRECT LINE BARCLAYS
SNOW HILL STATION
SHAKESPEARE MARTINEAU WESLEYAN
ERNST & YOUNG LLP
COLMORE SQUARE
B4 PARKING
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The Colmore Building BIRMINGHAM Colmore Business District Rail Network AMENITY Landmarks Public Squares Metro Stations The Colmore Building is positioned at the heart of thriving independent retail in the city, home to
Snow Hill Queensway the Colmore Business District, Birmingham’s most award-winning fashion and jewellery boutiques, Whittall St James Watt Queensway exclusive business and retail destination. With the hair and beauty retailers and food and drink. Ludgate Hill Weaman St B4 city centre’s high-end shops, restaurants and bars The Colmore Building stands proudly alongside Car Park based a short walk away, the area reflects the leading occupiers such as KPMG and HS2 – Birmingham Newhall St success and aspirations of its commercial residents. major businesses seeking to exploit the skills Snow Hill 06 02 The nearby Great Western Arcade is the hub of available in the region. 21 01 03 01 Corporation St
Church St Lionel St Colmore Square Square 02 04 01 05 00 Great Charles Street Queensway 08 09 03 02 Old 18 11 Square 05 04 10 03 Great Western Arcade Cornwall St Edmund St 04 Colmore Row
Lionel St 10 06 07 07 Birmingham 05 Newhall St Cathedral Edmund St
Dale End Bull St
08 Colmore Row 09 Chamberlain 11 Square 20 10 Victoria Temple St Birmingham Square Corporation St Town Hall
05 Birmingham Broad St Stephenson St Moor Street
06 12 Grand 07 Central Birmingham 12 Hill St New Street Bullring Shopping 19 Centre Suolk Steet Queensway 08 09 13
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The Station St Mailbox 16 14 15 The Cube 17
Retail Bars & Restaurants Local Occupiers Clockwise, from top left: Hotel du Vin 01. Snow + Rock 12. COS 01. Jekyll & Hyde 12. PAUL 01. The Colmore Building 05. Direct Line Great Western Arcade 02. Designer Leather 13. Selfridges 02. Purnell’s Restaurant 13. Gas Street Social Allianz 06. Barclays PLC Pure 03. Livsstil the Cookshop 14. Harvey Nichols 03. Opus at Cornwall St 14. Everyman Cinema Grant Thornton HS2 Construction HQ 04. Clements and Church 04. Utopia the Country Bar 15. Aluna Investec Gowling WLG 05. Crockett & Jones 05. Asha’s 16. Shogun Teppan-Yaki Vodafone 07. Royal Bank of Scotland 06. Kiehl’s 06. Purnell’s Bistro 17. Rodizio Rico Marsh 08. Royal & Sun Alliance 07. The White Company 07. Ginger’s Bar 18. Hotel Du Vin 02. KPMG 09. AON 08. Jo Malone 08. Fumo 19. Malmaison DWF 10. Pinsent Masons 09. John Lewis 09. San Carlo 20. Adam’s 03. PwC 10. Liquor Store 10. The Botanist 21. Bar Opus 04. Ernst & Young LLP 11. More by Design 11. Purecraft Bar & Kitchen Shakespeare Martineau 24 25 The Colmore Building
Clockwise, from top left: Grand Central, Birmingham Library of Birmingham San Carlo Purnell’s 26 27 The Colmore Building
CONNECTIONS
KEY DESTINATIONS BY RAIL KEY DESTINATIONS BY ROAD Birmingham offers outstanding domestic, Source: nationalrail.co.uk Source: google.co.uk/maps European and longer-haul international links. The Aston Expressway runs close to Bristol Bristol The Colmore Building, providing speedy London Manchester access to the M6, M5 and M42. Travelling to business meetings is stress-free thanks Manchester Cardiff to the two mainline stations: close-by Leeds Leeds Birmingham Snow Hill and Birmingham Cardiff London New Street, which has recently undergone Glasgow Glasgow an extensive refurbishment, becoming a retail destination in itself. Edinburgh Edinburgh
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METRO CONNECTIONS HS2 DUE IN 2026* PASSENGERS CAN REACH FROM THE COLMORE WILL REDUCE TRAVEL 275 DESTINATIONS DIRECTLY BUILDING TO NEW TIME TO LONDON TO FROM NEW STREET STATION, STREET STATION IN AND 95% OF THE STATIONS IN UNDER 4 MINUTES THE COUNTRY EITHER DIRECT OR WITH ONE CHANGE. Clockwise, from left Metro connections from The Colmore Building Birmingham Airport HS2 Train MINUTES Birmingham New Street Station Grand Central Shopping Centre *Source: Df T 28 29 The Colmore Building
"The Colmore Building perfectly "As well as being a first-class building with matches our aspirations as a business outstanding facilities, The Colmore Building and provides the right impression offered us a truly blank canvas to make our when clients visit our offices" mark and the outstanding views across the
— Adrian Quin, Head of Office city are the cherry on the top"
— David Munton, Regional Managing Director
"The Colmore Building is not only our design studio, but a place to do business and most importantly, a place to make projects come to life"
— Marcus Wilkins, Studio Director
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The 23,380 sq ft innovative and flexible floorplates are expansive and column free, with unrivalled views over the city scape.
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SCHEDULE OF AREAS Up to 46,758 sq ft (4344 sq m) IPMS 3 of contiguous space over two floors
Floors Availability sq ft sq m
Twelfth Grant Thornton 12 Eleventh Grant Thornton/Marsh/Melrose 11 Tenth Allianz/Hogan Lovells 10 Ninth Vodafone 09 Eighth Hogan Lovells 08 Seventh Available 23,380 2,172 07 Sixth Available 23,378 2,172 06 Fifth Amey Plc 05 Fourth Amey Plc 04
Third Part Let to Amey Plc/Robert Half International/Freeths Available 4,666 433 03
Second Part Let to Investec Wealth & Investment Available 18,165 1,688 02
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Mezzanine Orega – Serviced Offices MEZZ Ground Part Let to 3PB Barristers Available 11,343 1,054 G
Total Available 80,932 7,519
Basement / Storage 5,000 465
Car Parking 23 spaces available
Current occupiers at The Colmore Building Summary Specification
— Two storey reception — 150mm raised access floors — Gym — Eight intelligent 17 person lifts — BREEAM ‘Excellent’ — Changing facilities — Efficient and flexible floorplate — EPC C54 — Concierge services — High quality finishes — 24 hour security including CCTV — Treatment rooms — Four pipe fan coil air conditioning — Extensive basement storage facilities — Dry cleaning services — Central plant capacity 1:8 sq m — Basement car parking – 100 spaces — & MORE coffee house — Intelligent LG7 lighting — Basement cycle parking – 100+ spaces — Wired Certified Platinum
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ACCOMMODATION Floor Plans
Typical Floor Typical Split Floor Option
23,380 sq ft (2,172 sq m) 01 6,244 sq ft (580 sq m) 02 7,692 sq ft (715 sq m) 03 3,910 sq ft (363 sq m) 04 5,266 sq ft (489 sq m)
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ACCOMMODATION Space Plans
Indicative Space Plan – Low Density Indicative Space Plan – High Density
23,380 sq ft (2,172 sq m) 23,380 sq ft (2,172 sq m)
1:12 sq m occupational density 1:8 sq m occupational density showing 178 workstations showing 267 workstations
Office Office Core Core
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SPECIFICATION
ACCESS CONTROL DESIGN AND LIFTS Access control systems utilise proximity readers PERFORMANCE Eight 17 person lifts form part of the central core and are installed at all vehicular and pedestrian which are operated on a Destination Control entry and exit points. PARAMETERS System, linked to security turnstiles in the The principal design parameters adopted entrance. A goods lift, servicing all office for the mechanical and electrical services floors is accessible from the loading bay. BREEAM RATING installation are: The building has been certified as achieving a rating of ‘Excellent’. External Design Conditions LIGHTING LEVELS Winter - 4°C Sat Intelligent lighting, designed to assist Summer 29°C dry bulb in achieving LG7 compliance. BUILDING 21°C wet bulb STOREY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM General offices 400 lux (at working plane) RECEPTION A fully automated intelligent Building Management Internal Design Conditions Entrance foyer 400 lux System provides for individual tenants in terms Offices Other circulation 300 lux of timed temperature, fresh air and lighting Winter 22°C ± 2°C Toilets /staircases 150 to 200 lux control; in parallel with fully monitoring the Summer 22°C ± 2°C status and performance of all M&E plant and essential services. Air Infiltration MECHANICAL AND Open plan offices 0.5 ac/hr ELECTRICAL SERVICES Reception/entrance 1.0 ac/hr Incoming gas service with 400 kWh spare CCTV capacity for future tenant use. Incoming 50mm A CCTV system is provided which is capable Design Occupancy mains water service and associated cold water of on-site and off-site management. Open plan offices 1 person/10.0 sq m storage, boosted distribution service and local electric domestic hot water services. CEILING FINISHES Fresh Air Provision All office space 16 litres/sec/person Incoming 11 KV protected ring power supply with Metal suspended ceiling system, nominal FLOOR TO 3000 kVA maximum demand supply availability. 1200 x 300 mm pressed steel micro perforated CEILING Extract Rates tiles laid flush into 300 mm “C” section grid on Toilets 10 ac/hr HEIGHT a 1500 x 1500 mm module with PPC finish and STAND BY POWER acoustic infill. DESIGN OCCUPANCY GENERATION Space is provided and allowance made for future Design occupancy of: adaptation within the tenant storage space/ CLEAR FLOOR HEIGHTS • 8 sq m per person for HVAC central plant Floor Zone Finished Floor to Ceiling parking spaces to facilitate the installation of • 10 sq m per person for on floor fan coils standby power generation. • A 60% / 60% split for sanitary provision Ground 3,400mm • 12 sq m per person: 80% occupancy (14 sq m Mezz–12 2,750mm per person: 100%) has been allowed for lifts Basement 1–5 2,100mm TENANT POWER • An allowance of 6 sq m per person has been allowed in the calculation of means of escape SUPPLY & AIR CONDITIONING DISTRIBUTION Power & lighting supplies for all areas are 4 pipe fan coil units are provided in all general DISABLED PROVISION office areas. The system is designed to be split provided and metered at low voltage from 17 PERSON Fully DDA compliant with disabled WCs by tenants in up to four separate principal zones the landlord’s supply network on each floor. INTELLIGENT provided at each level. to assist division of the space. Space is provided Designed load is 25w/sq m with one circuit LIFTS for the future installation of humidifiers. every 85 sq m and with 25% spare capacity. FIRE DETECTION DATA TELECOMM / ALARM SYSTEM A fully analogue addressable fire detection DATA WIRING system, mains powered, with battery backup FACILITIES, ETC is provided throughout the building. Two remotely located incoming Comms Rooms are provided for diversity with dual entry available for British Telecom and Vodafone, FLOOR LOADING with additional entry for various other service The following imposed structural loading providers with local infrastructure. allowances have been used: • Floors - 4.0 kN/sq m plus an allowance SQ M of 1.0kN/sq m for partitions CENTRAL • 5% of floor area will have an enhanced PLANT loading of 7.5 kN/sq m CAPACITY Knock out panels are provided to facilitate additional tenant risers.
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WIREDSCORE AWARDS
The Colmore Building has won the Innovation Award for the Midlands and Central Englad at the 2017 British Council for Offices (BCO) Awards. The BCO recognised The Colmore Building for providing a vibrant and contemporary work environment. The judges praised the building for its world-class facilities and outstanding amenity offering.
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A fixed wireless provider creates an alternate form of connectivity into FREE WiFi in all communal areas (including the gym, café and changing rooms) the building from internet service providers entering from street level. for occupiers and visitors
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4 unique sources of fibre connectivity allow occupiers a wide variety BT Openreach has both fibre and copper in the building which provides of high speed internet services. infrastructure that can be used by over 500 different providers to service tenants.
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The building can easily accommodate new carriers as there are Additional ISP comms space and riser capacity is available to support future universal comms chambers on both sides of the building. needs of occupiers and carriers throughout the entire building.
Best in class levels of redundancy and resiliency with 3 fully separate intakes.
The Colmore Building has been awarded a Platinum WiredScore connectivity rating. This is the highest possible level achievable by international connectivity CONTACTS accreditor WiredScore and certifies The Colmore Building as one of the best buildings in the UK for broadband and telecoms infrastructure.
Jonathan Carmalt Charles Toogood AVAILABLE CARRIERS +44 (0)121 214 9935 +44 (0)121 609 8448 Misrepresentation act The particulars contained in this brochure are believed to be correct, but cannot be [email protected] [email protected] guaranteed. All liability, in negligence or otherwise, for any loss arising from the use of these particulars is hereby excluded. This property is offered subject to contract. Kelvin Craddock George Jennings October 2017. +44 (0)121 634 6523 +44 (0)121 609 8458 [email protected] [email protected] Designed by Stepladder. stepladderuk.com
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