Eland House

Eland House is an office building in Westminster, London occupied by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. It was designed by EPR Architects and built by Mowlem for Land Securities, completed in 1998. Westminster is a district within the City of Westminster in London. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ... The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is a department of the British government. ... Mowlem is one of the UKs largest construction and engineering companies. ... Land Securities Group plc is a leading British property development and investment company headquartered in central London. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

The building is 59 m (152 ft) high, with 11 floors providing 35,000 m² (376,250 sq ft) of office space housing 2,500 staff. It incorporates a number of environmental features including a cogeneration plant and active solar panels. Cogeneration (also combined heat and power or CHP) is the use of a power station to simultaneously generate both heat and electricity. ... Active solar is a term which refers to the use of solar energy to actively convert the energy in sunlight into other forms. ... Solar Panel (photovoltaic array) A Solar panel is a flat collection of solar cells or solar thermal collectors used for converting solar energy into electricity or heat. ...