William Gates Building, Cambridge
For other uses, see William Gates Building.
| William Gates Building | |
|---|---|
 | |
| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Address | 15 JJ Thomson Avenue |
| Completed | 2001 |
| Cost | £20 million |
| Owner | University of Cambridge |
| Height | |
| Top floor | 2 |
| Awards and prizes | Bronze Green Impact Award |
The William Gates Building, or WGB, is a square building that houses the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, on the University's West Cambridge site in JJ Thomson Avenue south of the Madingley Road in Cambridge, England.[1][2][3] Construction on the building began in 1999 and was completed in 2001 at a cost of £20 million. Opened by Maurice Wilkes, it was named after William H. Gates Sr., the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.[4] The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided 50% of the money for the building's construction.
Building features
The building has the following features:
- The glass wall in the "fishbowl," a communal seating area in the building, is decorated with the source code of the original EDSAC program
- The building's main thoroughfare has tiles that match the binary, UTF-8 representation of 'Computer Laboratory — AD 2001 — ☺'
- The fishbowl contains the original door to the Mathematical laboratory[5]
Energy efficiency
The William Gates Building aims to be energy-efficient.[6] Its energy-saving measures include:[7]
- Aggressive sleep scheduling of desktop computers.
- Use of a chilled-beam convection-based cooling system, with Oventrop valves, to cool rooms in the summer, and warm the floor above in the winter.
- Turning off lights in corridors, and the street, using motion-sensors.
See also
References
- ↑ The William Gates Building, University of Cambridge, UK.
- ↑ William Gates Building, University of Cambridge , Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), UK. Archived October 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "William Gates Building, Architect, Photos, Address, Date, Architecture, Images". e-architect.
- ↑ "Cambridge Computing: The First 75 Years" (PDF). p. 138.
- ↑
- ↑ Energy efficiency
- ↑ Energy efficiency
Coordinates: 52°12′39″N 0°05′31″E / 52.210925°N 0.092022°E
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