Bruntwood SciTech’s Enterprise Wharf is set to become Birmingham’s first certified smart building.
The Bruntwood and Legal & General backed science and tech specialist has partnered with the Smart Building Collective to benchmark the 120,000 sq ft asset and ensure that it is one of the smartest buildings in the world.
The requirements for the certification are classified into six categories, covering building use, building performance, health, safety and security, building environment, user experience and collaboration, and connectivity and integrative design.
The programme will consider each of these aspects in relation to Enterprise Wharf before granting the certification. Bruntwood SciTech has said this will be a “development milestone”, marking the first comprehensively smart building in the developer’s portfolio, and the first certified smart building in Birmingham.
Bruntwood SciTech property director Peter Crowther said: “Enterprise Wharf is a hugely exciting scheme for Bruntwood SciTech as a game-changing smart building in our portfolio harnessing the evolution of smart technology. What we have created in Birmingham raises the bar, marking a significant milestone both for us as the developer, and the city of Birmingham”
The 10-storey Enterprise Wharf has been designed with digital and tech businesses in mind, and sits in the Innovation Birmingham campus, in Birmingham’s Knowledge Quarter.
Nicholas White, managing partner at Smart Building Collective | Certification, said: “Our program kick off has already left us inspired and hungry for more. It was quickly apparent that the logic of how this smart building has been put together is steps ahead of what we are seeing in the industry. Their use of value cases, converted into use cases, and mapped to a state-of-the-art tech stack, gives us the confidence that Enterprise Wharf will score well against the SBC Framework.
“Bruntwood SciTech has also worked with a true master system integrator on this project, which makes such a difference. We look forward to seeing how Enterprise Wharf scores and what stories and education we can share collectively.”
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