Build Architecture Awards

Build Architecture Awards 2015 109 certified simultaneously both in LEED Gold and BREEAM Excellent, and we were award- ed the First Extraordinary Point for Innovation ever granted by Breeam Spain. But our role does not stop here, we are still learning from the in use real data of the urban spaces and the buildings’ performance, because we want to keep improving our future designs. The fact that Orona Ideo was benchmarked in the Health, Wellbeing & Productivity in Offices report of the World Green Building Council highlighted many quality aspects of the design perceived by the occupants beyond the rational efficiency of the building, and that is a very valuable aspect that strengthens our philosophy. The natural light, the views, the acoustic comfort, the connection with nature and vegetation, these are some of the most appreciated aspects, which we made note of and will endeavour to integrate into our other projects in the future. When working in a technology driven world we think we have to be active on the frontlines, ensuring we integrate the right technology into our projects. There are many new possibilities to do lots of new things in our cities and buildings: smart compo- nents, internet of things, data management, although we also understand that we have to listen to our customers and clients, because they tell us which are the problems we need to solve by means of our best design solutions. By combining these approaches we ensure that we are working as efficiently as possible whilst simultaneously meeting the customer’s needs. The integrated sustainability design approach we take is much more complex to manage than achieving good energy efficiency, and therefore we face early in the design the issues regarding health and wellbeing of the occupants and the building facility management requirements during its lifetime. This may change the general mind- set in the industry in the future and currently it opens the debate of need to evaluate not only the measurable quantitative aspects, but also the quality of our architectural and urban designs. Looking to the future, we will work on strengthening our position on integrated projects because we know that it is the way to ensure that our clients receive the highest added value of every project we complete, and at the same time we would like to increase the participation on interna- tional projects.