Project summary

Location: Newport
Sector: Education
Value: £51K
Duration: 4 months
Client: Office for National Statistics
Electrical Contractor: CMB Electrical

At a glance: Office for National Statistics, Newport is an office project for Office for National Statistics. 299 Lighting provided the lighting, working with CMB Electrical (electrical contractor).

Perhaps we might not think about how all the statistical facts that we receive daily in media are being produced. The facts about the UK economy, society and population are collected, analysed and disseminated in several offices around the UK and produced by the UK’s largest independent producer of national statistics.

Situated just outside of Newport, the HQ of National Statistics is the largest site owned by the Office for National Statistics. Approximately 2,000 people work here collecting and processing data.

The reception area

The reception has had a double height semi-circular extension to the front of the building which creates a focal point of the front elevation, making it easier for visitors to identify the entrance and providing space for security turnstiles and improved waiting areas. This extension has been carried up to roof level where the curve continues around to create a rotunda that links to a new rooftop structure and extends across the old roof to provide office accommodation.

This joins up with a redundant roof top plant room that has been converted into a lecture theatre and toilet block. It was truly a 3-dimensional puzzle squeezing the new space between an existing occupied three and five storey building and over the roof.

The two aspects of this scheme had different requirements.

In the reception area, lighting was used as a device to tie what was essentially 3 separate spaces into one – the Linear Recessed Leck fitting subtly achieved this. There was also a need for a fitting that could light the double height space that would be viewed from above as well as below. The large suspended ring-shaped luminaire Ouse was used here.

The Data Science area includes the double height rotunda that accommodates a large open office space and meeting rooms. This large space had similar requirements to the reception – to keep the continuity of the design, the ring-shaped luminaire Ouse was used again.

The space boasts an abundance of daylight and the client’s vision was to achieve very comfortable lighting to contribute to staff’s wellbeing. The Erie suspended was used throughout the whole floor plan of the Data Science Campus to distribute indirect light. At a first glance, the Erie doesn’t look like a luminaire at all. Thanks to its uniquely shaped diffuser, the Erie is a pioneering lighting system that produces comfortable low glare lighting, specially designed to be used in offices with a restricted ceiling height. The Data Science Campus is the largest office space we’ve worked on which uses only indirect light.

The Erie was also used as a continuous system in the meeting rooms. With the smallest module being 500 mm, an interconnected system can be designed quite specifically to meet your exact requirements.

In the stairwells and circulation areas, the large ring-shaped luminaire Ouse was used. It effortlessly ‘floats’ in the space and the bold black finish makes the fitting stand out. The result is a visually engaging scheme making the ONS campus a very attractive and stimulating workplace. The lighting has been delivered to the satisfaction of the client, the visitors, and people who are using the space on a day to day basis. The project won the GO Infrastructure Project of the Year Award and the GO Award Wales 2017/2018.

4 months

From initial project brief through to delivery.

2000 People

Approximately 2000 people work at ONS, collecting and processing data.

865 m2

The refurbished space covers approximately 865 m².

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