Dispatch Office. OAO SO for UES, Central Region Branch, Moscow.
(in cooperation with ABTB)
 Architects: A. Goryainov, M. Krymov, T. Bashkaev
Client: OAO SO-CDO UESR
Total Area: 300 sq m
Project Development: 2008
Construction: 2008-2009

Dispatch room is located on the upper, third floor of the building A at Staroalekseevskaya street, 9. The classroom equipped with the wall video screen is also located there. In its central part, the floor has supporting columns, which do not allow creating a big dispatch room and dictate the location and the size of the wall video screen. The floor height in installations is 4.9 m, the height up to the beams is 4.2 m. The floor has two evacuation exits. The project objective was to create spacious and comfortable rooms, which meet the ergonomic requirements of the dispatchers’ workstations.

The main entrance to the dispatch centre is located at a 2.2 m distance from the floor clear level. The descent to the storey floor mark is provided via the stairway in the proximity of the entrance. At a 2.2 mark, the dispatch centre visitor’s balcony is located. The balcony and the stairway area are separated from the dispatch room and the classroom by the glass partitions, which allow observing the dispatchers.  Under the balcony, there is the lowered floor part of the dispatch room, where a workstation and bookcases for operating manuals are located.

The dispatch room exterior partition along the radius is made of bent glass. The lower part of the glass is covered with a mat film.  Glass partitions are fixed to the floor and to the ceiling with stainless steel Dorma hardware. Upper and lower level glass parts are connected by the stainless steel Dorma “spyders” fixed to the vertical ridgepoles. The partition for cubic video installations is also made of opaque glass and is fixed on the stainless steel frame.  

The ceilings of the dispatch room, the classroom a,nd the entrance group are built on a suspended frame and made of Bildex perforated composite material. The concrete cover plate behind the ceiling is finished with Shumanet BM soundproof material covered with a sound-pervious fabric. The surface of the ceiling has built-in niche-like elevated apertures where luminescent light fixtures are located.  The apertures with light fixtures are covered with acrylic mat glass. The part of the ceiling over the balcony is elevated in the entrance group area in order to assure the ceiling height of 2.4 m. The transition from the lower to the higher ceiling is smooth and wave-shaped. The floors at the storey level are finished with parquet. The stairway and the balcony are finished with ceramic granite. 
Dispatchers’ desks are custom-made. They carry a metal frame covered with medium density fiberboard and finished with natural veneer. Desks have 2-level tops: the lower top for monitors and the upper top for workstations and equipment.  Low- and high-voltage cables are located in the desk’s leg and in a horizontal box located on the lower surface of the main desktop. The same box houses all electrical outlets. System blocks are installed on a suspended system fixed to the lower surface of the desktop.

Heating radiators are covered by a continuous band of removable panels made of Bildex perforated composite material. The part of the room between the balcony and the exterior window has built-in vats with live trees.