Gdansk’s Wave Office Building Targets Healthy, Sustainable Workplace Certifications

Wave, an office building under construction by Skanska in Gdansk, Poland, has been granted approval for use. It offers nearly 25,000 square meters of innovative and sustainable office space.

Wave will be the first office building in the Tri-City to apply for the demanding WELL Core&Shell certificate. This means the offices in Wave meet the strictest guidelines and provide a healthy and sustainable workplace. WELL places great emphasis on proper ventilation and air filtration inside the rooms, maintaining proper humidity and ensuring thermal comfort.

Skanska’s project scope includes pavement made of green concrete with photocatalytic properties. The sun’s rays reflecting on its surface are helping in reducing the amount of harmful compounds in the city air that are formed by exhaust gases emitted by cars.

The building is also equipped with a system that allows contactless movement throughout the building, particularly important in the context of current and future epidemiological threats.

Wave proves that modern office architecture can allude to the history of the city in which it is built. The design of the building was inspired by the rhythmic composition of the port container warehouses. In turn, the public space between the buildings alludes to the Baltic coastal landscape, where the shapes of dunes and sea waves are in harmony.

Facts + figures

• One of the two buildings of the complex is already completed
• Leasable space of the Wave first stage: approx. 24,700 square meters GLA; the entire complex: approx. 48,000 square meters GLA
• Number of above-ground/underground floors: 14/2
• The building will apply for WELL, LEED and Building Without Barriers certificates
• General contractor of the building: Skanska S.A.
• Exclusive commercialization agent: CBRE
• Architectural design: medusa group