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The building's main thoroughfare, called "The Street", has tiles that match the binary, UTF-8 representation of 'Computer Laboratory — AD 2001 — ☺'
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Use of a chilled-beam convection-based cooling system, with Oventrop valves, to cool rooms in the summer, and warm the floor above in the winter.
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The glass wall in the "fishbowl," a communal seating area in the building, is decorated with a paper-tape representation of the original
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The William Gates Building aims to be energy-efficient. Its energy-saving measures include:
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Turning off lights in corridors, and the street, using motion sensors.
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The fishbowl contains the original door to the Mathematical laboratory
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provided 50% of the money for the building's construction.
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Buildings and structures of the University of Cambridge
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52°12′39″N 0°05′31″E / 52.210925°N 0.092022°E / 52.210925; 0.092022 (William Gates Building, Cambridge)
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
West Cambridge
Madingley Road
Cambridge
England
£
Maurice Wilkes
William H. Gates Sr.
Microsoft
Bill Gates
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
EDSAC
David Wheeler
Maurice Wilkes

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