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LEGOLAND Castle Hotel

LEGOLAND Castle Hotel

Legoland, Winkfield Road, Windsor
United Kingdom
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Introba (formerly Elementa Consulting) has provided full MEP services on LEGOLAND Windsor resort’s new 72-room hotel.

The castle-themed, medieval complex is set to act as a new standalone attraction for the theme park, increasing interest and the visitors’ length of stay at the park. The hotel includes many new design features while keeping to the recognizable LEGO brand. The hotel contains over 2.1 million individual LEGO bricks integrated throughout the hotel design in unique features. If scaled down twenty times, the whole project is a replica size of an actual LEGO castle model.

To achieve these impressive design features, Introba coordinated carefully with Merlin’s design team, consisting of “imaginers” and “themers,” to deliver a project that kept to the themed aspirations while working with innovative new technologies. This project’s challenges were ensuring that the aesthetic design features were functional within the hotel, with limited space and allocation of services, while working within strict design requirements.

With the LEGOLAND site housing its HV, gas, and water, the team undertook utility assessments of the overall park to integrate the new hotel into the existing services. Introba also provided the energy strategy for the project with the incorporation of high-efficiency air source heat pumps, again working with the design team to deliver low levels or air tightness with good U values resulting in an energy-efficient building. Introba worked in a truly integrated fashion with the contractors and novated design team to ensure that the program’s critical build, driven by the seasonal nature of the resort, was completed in time.

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