Grosvenor has relaunched 134 Edmund Street, Birmingham, as the Billiards Building following an extensive refurbishment to the centrally located office building.
With the building c50% let, 34,000 sq. ft of space will be available from Q1 2024 with Cat A and fitted floorplates ranging from 4,000-8,400 sq. ft.
Rebranding 134 Edmund Street as the Billiards Building, pays tribute to the building’s former use as a factory for billiards tables, operated by Padmore & Sons.
Once complete, the building will offer a new reception and business lounge, gym, communal roof terrace, and enhanced end of journey facilities.
Grosvenor’s regional office portfolio comprises c500,000 sq. ft of office space in the UK’s core cities, including Manchester, Bristol, Leeds, and Birmingham.
Building on the organisation’s experience of retrofitting properties across its London portfolio, Grosvenor has focussed on acquiring existing buildings in prime locations and refurbishing them to improve their amenities and energy efficiency.
As part of the retrofit of the Billiards Building, it will now be electric powered, following the replacement of the buildings’ gas-powered system. This and other interventions have significantly improved its operational energy usage, improving its EPC rating from E to an A rating. It now has the equivalent energy use intensity of a 4.5* NABERS rating.
This represents a 67% reduction in energy usage and will reduce the building’s carbon emissions by 52% a year, the equivalent annual carbon emissions of 93 petrol cars.
Fergus Evans, Office Portfolio Director, Grosvenor said:
“The relaunch of 134 Edmund Street as the Billiards Building shows how existing buildings can be refurbished to create Grade A office space. Our retrofit has significantly reduced the building’s annual carbon footprint and avoided the huge embodied carbon impact of replacing it with a new building. It now offers best in class facilities in a prime location at the heart of Birmingham’s CBD.
CBRE and JLL have been instructed as joint agents to market the office space.
Theo Holmes, Senior Director, CBRE said:
“Billiards Building meets all the needs of the modern occupier, whether this be their focus on amenities, wellbeing, sustainability or quality. The flexible floor plates also enable the building to react to changing business needs, offering fully fitted and traditional solutions and a range of suite sizes for businesses to scale up.”
Jonathan Carmalt, Director, JLL said:
“Occupiers are increasingly demanding when considering an office relocation. The works undertaken to the Billiards Building ensure that it will compete favourably with the very best space that central Birmingham has to offer and will continue as an exemplar for years to come.”
