85,000 m² Kyiv Commercial Complex: Integrated Multidisciplinary Design
Integrated design and engineering for a six-building commercial complex, connecting BIM coordination, value engineering, quantities, and authority documentation.
- Gross building area
- 85,000 m²
- Office buildings
- 6
- GLA to GBL target ratio
- 0.85
The commercial development was planned as six office buildings delivered in three phases in central Kyiv. With an approximate gross building area of 85,000 m², the programme required architectural intent, structural systems, building services, civil interfaces, sustainability requirements, and authority documentation to remain coordinated across a large and changing design scope.
TEBIN assembled an in-house multidisciplinary team to support concept and basic design. The work connected architectural coordination with structural, heating, ventilation, cooling, plumbing, fire protection, electrical, lighting, and low-voltage engineering in a shared Building Information Modeling environment.
Coordinating a phased commercial programme
A six-building development cannot be treated as six isolated packages. Shared infrastructure, utility capacities, public space, access, fire strategy, and phasing decisions create interfaces between buildings and between project stages. Decisions made for the first phase also establish constraints and precedents for the phases that follow.
The project team used federated discipline models and a managed common data environment to review those interfaces. Structural calculations were connected with the structural model, coordinated models were reviewed against the surrounding context, and project information was exchanged through defined review workflows rather than disconnected file transfers.
The archived project brief recorded a target ratio of 0.85 between gross leasable area and gross building area. Maintaining that target required engineering systems and vertical distribution to use space efficiently without reducing access, maintainability, fire safety, or technical performance.
Value engineering connected to the model
Value engineering focused on decisions that affected both project cost and usable area. The team compared options for protective piling near existing municipal utilities, reviewed variable refrigerant flow heat pumps against a conventional gas-based heating approach, and examined electrical distribution options that could reduce shaft demand.
Plumbing material options were also compared against project requirements and cost. These studies did not replace client decisions or specialist approvals. They gave the project team a coordinated technical and quantity basis for comparing alternatives before they were embedded into the design.
Model-based documentation and quantities
Concept and basic design drawings, schedules, specifications, and bills of quantities were produced from the coordinated information environment. This maintained a relationship between model elements, design documentation, and reported quantities as the project developed.
The scope also included multidisciplinary clash review and coordination with the architectural consultant, environmental and energy specialists, the sustainability assessor, client representatives, specialist contractors, and local authorities. The design brief included a BREEAM Very Good objective, which informed coordination and technical decisions without turning sustainability into a separate model disconnected from the engineering work.
Project outcome
The result was a coordinated concept and basic design basis for a phased 85,000 m² commercial complex. The project demonstrates how TEBIN connects space planning, multidisciplinary engineering, information management, value engineering, and quantity information before separate discipline packages become expensive to reconcile.
