A workplace less ordinary

THE WHITE BUILDING has been designed with a fresh approach in mind. Forget what your typical office building looks or feels like, you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

We want your staff and clients to feel invigorated and inspired by the building and its urban environment.

The White Building offers inspiring and flexible offices to let in Reading.

STUNNING FIRST
FLOOR SUITE
5,463 SQ FT
AVAILABLE NOW

Overview

  • 40 workstations
  • Fibre broadband connectivity
  • High bench
  • Boardroom
  • 2x meeting rooms
  • 2x quiet pods
  • Kitchen/breakout
  • Reception
  • Printer area
  • Comms room
  • Storage room

THE WHITE BUILDING offers the first floor suite of 5,463 sq ft with floor to ceiling glazing.

The new office space provides an inspiring working environment to help the modern occupier attract and stimulate its most important assets: its staff and clients.

Floor sq ft sq m
7th floor (shared roof terrace) 3,143 292
3rd floor suite coming soon 9,800 910
1st floor (available suite) 5,463 505
Total* 15,263 1,417

* The roof terrace is excluded in this total area.

INVIGORATE AND INSPIRE

WHERE THE VIEW’S AT

Your roof terrace… take a break, stretch your legs, make the most of your lunchtime, chill out, informal meetings or events space. You choose.

Stripped back detail

THE WHITE BUILDING is a workplace with a different aspect. We’ve replaced suspended ceilings and recessed lighting with exposed services for a more remarkable modern office.

Completely transformed office building

93,145 sq ft in total

Environmentally Efficient

5,463 sq ft fitted suite with fibre broadband connectivity

On-site parking
(1:1250 sq ft)

All Electric Building

Contemporary Office Design

Great amenities inside and out with communal roof terrace

Overview

  • Full CAT A building refurbishment
  • Newly configured entrance and reception
  • New floor to ceiling glazing throughout, providing excellent natural light
  • Exposed media-style ceilings incorporating LG7 compliant lighting and new heating and cooling system
  • Occupancy density 1:8m2

Landscaping

  • Newly landscaped street frontage and resurfaced car parking
  • Natural textured stone paving slabs with inset feature lighting providing illumination
  • New stone cladding to boundary walls
  • High quality stone benches with integral illumination
  • Large communal roof terrace
  • DDA compliant access
  • New trees along Kings Road and Abbey Street frontage

Parking spaces and access

  • On-site parking (1:1250 sq ft)
  • 39 secure cycle spaces

Lifts

  • 3 x new 13 person 1000kg passenger lifts (incl. 1 fire fighting lift)
  • Minimum 2.0 mps passenger lift speed
  • Hybrid destination control system

Mechanical services

  • New mechanical installations throughout
  • New efficient VRF heating and cooling system via air-sourced heat pump
  • Internal design conditions: 23°C +/-2°C (summer), 21°C +/- 2°C (winter)
  • Building energy management system (BEMS)

Electrical services

  • LG7 compliant lighting (350–400 lux target)
  • Digital lighting control system
  • PIR lighting throughout the office and core with daylight sensors
  • Central building management system (BMS)
  • Generator connection capability

WCs and showers

  • New male and female WCs on each floor
  • New male and female changing rooms with 8 showers and 42 lockers at basement level
  • A DDA compliant shower room is provided at basement level

Floors and ceilings

  • Fully accessible raised floor set 80mm from the top of the structural slab
  • Average 2925mm floor to ceiling height for floors 1–6 with locally lowered heights of approximately 2470mm

Energy saving features

  • EPC rating B
  • High performance VRF heating and cooling units with low fan power
  • Low heat loss glazing with high UV rejection throughout
  • Thermal upgrade to the roof to match that of a new build
  • Thermal upgraded walls to reduce heat loss
  • Improved air-tightness to reduce air and heat leakage
  • LED lighting in communal areas with presence detectors
  • Dimmable luminaire controls
  • High daylight factors in offices to reduce artificial lighting

Additional benefits

  • Excellent public transport and pedestrian/cycle connections to railway station and town centre amenities
  • Recycling facilities
  • Landscaping provided to enhance site ecology
  • Energy metering and sub-metering of light and power to each floor
  • Low flow sanitaryware fitted to reduce water consumption

Economic powerhouse

Reading has a strong and mature knowledge economy of technology and creative sector industries. Technology industries include information and communication technology, business & financial services, and renewables.

reading voted in top 10 best places to live by the sunday times in 2022

ranked IN THE top 5 performing innovation economies in the uk 2022*

READING MADE THE FASTEST ECONOMIC RECOVERY FROM THE PANDEMIC IN THE UK**

3 mins TO The Oracle Shopping Centre and 6 mins to reading station

7th best qualified workforce in the uk, 5th for its share of graduates#

RANKED 2ND BEST PLACE TO LIVE AND WORK IN THE UK OF THE LARGEST 36 ECONOMIC AREAS##

* Centre for Cities/Connected Places Catapult

** EY’s Regional Economic Forecast

# Centre for Cities 2021

## Demos-PwC

Reading – full of flavour

  • The 750,000 sq ft Oracle shopping centre with restaurants, cafes and bars only minutes away
  • A range of international-quality hotels nearby
  • Fitness and leisure facilities throughout the town, with Buzz Gym just over the road
  • The Hexagon, The Concert Hall and other nearby arts facilities provide a rich cultural scene
  • World famous Reading Festival every August
  • Forbury Square with three top-quality restaurants and cafés is only a short walk away
  • Reading Station is a 6 minute walk via Forbury Gardens or 3 minutes by bike
  • Brand new apart-hotel, House of Fisher, is adjacent
  • Numerous new apartment developments, including Kennet House on Kings Road

Welcome to the
KINGS ROAD quarter

Mainline connections

Road

Reading has excellent road connections with three motorway junctions (J10, 11 & 12) of the M4, providing direct access to the M25 and the national motorway network. M4 J10 is served by the motorway A329M, and M4 J11 is reached by a dual carriageway, the A33.

Bike

Reading is served by a 37 mile cycle network, of which 17 miles are segregated from general traffic. These will soon include a new Thames Bridge linking the north bank with the railway station.

Rail

Reading’s mainline station is a major UK rail hub, handling some 16 million passengers a year. There are connections with London Paddington and London Waterloo to the east, Bristol and Wales to the west and directly to Birmingham (New Street & International), Guildford, Oxford, Basingstoke and Newbury.

An £850 million upgrade – the biggest in the UK – has provided new entrances and a concourse; five new platforms have been added with modified track layouts to improve passenger and freight transport flows.

Air

Heathrow

London Heathrow is 28 miles east of Reading and can be reached directly via the M4 motorway (J4). RailAir operates a non-stop 45-minute bus service between the railway station and the airport.

Other international airports

London Gatwick is 55 miles south east of Reading and Southampton Airport Parkway is only 46 miles (direct rail 46 minutes).

COLLABORATIVE HUB

Touch down points, informal meeting / break out area, coffee offering and a building concierge service, it all starts in THE WHITE BUILDING’s light and airy reception.

What inspired them?

We believe that THE WHITE BUILDING will create a more exciting and inspiring working environment, but don't take our word for it!

Work.Life moved into the white building for Its creative urban working environment. IT'S SUCH A UNIQUE, invigoratING and inspirING SPACE. ITS EXCITING LOCATION, BANG IN THE CITY'S URBAN HEART, AND EXPANSIVE ROOF TERRACE ARE GREAT AMENITIES WHICH ARE A REAL ADDED BENEFIT FOR OUR MEMBERS

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