The POSCO Center: Pursue the Ultimate Safety of Office Buildings

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In modern life, an increasing number of commodity producers and users consider safety as a primary indicator to predict the quality of products relating to our daily necessities including food, accommodation, clothing and transportation. For example, we choose clothes meeting quality standards, green food without pesticides, cars with a higher degree of safety, sturdy houses, etc.

As office buildings are super high-rise buildings with dense crowds and complex structures, their safety is of vital importance. It is rather narrow, however, to define the safety of office buildings in terms of fire and theft prevention. In fact, the new connotation of the safety of office buildings has expanded to offer the settled staff healthy, comfortable and intelligent work environments apart from their safe and reliable quality.

 
Office buildings need more than standard equipment

For the past two years, newly built high-end office buildings in Beijing, including the POSCO Center, Fortune Financial Center, World Versed International Mansion, Ocean International Center II, Smart Hero-Central Park Plaza, Beijing Financial Street Yuetan Center and Internet Finance Center, all follow strict building standards and adopt building materials of high quality and advanced mechanical equipment. These have already become standard equipment of the new generation of high-end office buildings, and enable the settled staff to feel safe. Apart from these, the settled staff will feel convenient in the office building which employs a set of intelligent equipment.

Indeed, the safety of office buildings consists of a huge system including elevators, air conditioners, electric power, lighting, ventilation and drainage, and covers planning, construction, materials, technologies, management and property. Take office buildings of the POSCO Center in the Wangjing area for example. To avoid any problems during its service, the POSCO Center has carried out simulation tests and sought professional consultation in advance, and taken noise reduction, vibration, sound and elevators into consideration. For instance, the efficient and convenient elevator system of the POSCO Center is divided into four types as passenger elevators, sightseeing elevators, freight elevators and emergency elevators according to function. The hardware equipment including the lobby, elevators, the floor height, the air conditioning system and the glass curtain wall is all built according to the standards of international office buildings by the POSCO Center. Furthermore, Chinese three-star authentication technology of green buildings adopted by the POSCO Center is the highest-level authentication in assessment criteria of Chinese green buildings. The POSCO Center is also equipped with an intelligent parking system which recognizes license plate numbers automatically and a comprehensive anti-crime system which realizes high-speed information communication through mobile devices.

 
Scientific and intelligent supporting equipment leads ultimate safety

Apart from the safe and reliable hardware and technical support, the safety of office buildings also indicates that the settled staff are provided with humanized and intelligent office space and comfortable ecological rest space to ensure their psychological security.

In fact, people’s attention to safety is human-oriented. For instance, whether the building materials are environmentally friendly? Whether the air is fresh? Whether the temperature and humidity is comfortable? These aspects all relate to people’s requirement. With its outstanding humanized design, the POSCO Center focuses on establishing a scientific and intelligent support system to ensure its safety as well.

For example, the POSCO Center employs a great many green building materials, not only enabling the building to operate in an environmentally friendly way with less resources and low carbon, but also providing the settled staff with a healthier work environment. The CO2 automatic regulatory system, together with the temperature and humidity automatic regulator system, maintains a steady oxygen level in the air and the most comfortable temperature and humidity, enabling the settled staff to enjoy fresh air. Besides, the safe and efficient operation of the building is ensured with energy saving systems such as a geothermal system and a radiating system and green and high technologies including rainwater collection, green building materials and the ecological landscape applied in the building. The safe and intelligent passage control system adopted by the POSCO Center prevents unauthorized persons’ access to the building, thus ensuring the safety of the settled enterprises and avoiding the risk of leaking their business secrets.

The ramps to the underground garage are built at the two sides of the main entrance of motor vehicles, and connected with the circular transportation streamline in the parcel. In this way, the settled staff will enjoy a quiet and pleasant sunken garden and surroundings, and the number of cars parking on the ground is reduced, which facilitates visitors getting on or off the car and driving into or out of the garage, and ensures the safety of pedestrians and vehicles.

It is noteworthy that not all floors of the POSCO Center are in the office layout. The first three floors are equipped with various office ancillary space including a medical center, a fitness center, a multi-function hall, a business center, a video conference room and a business recreational area. What’s more, the POSCO Center will also be managed by a professional property management company with an international background. All these designs aim to ensure the safety of the settled staff physically and psychologically.

Some claim that safety is relative. What the POSCO Center pursues, however, is ultimate safety, which integrates with more high technologies and intelligence. Such a human-oriented design not only ensures the physical safety of the settled staff, but also their psychological security.

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