Global Bank - Facilities Upgrade
Project Description:
The project involved the introduction of new formal and informal meeting facilities and breakout space to several floors within a head office building in Canary Wharf. The Scope of work briefly comprised the following:
- Significant works to the server areas, including layout changes, seating areas and kitchen offers.
- Reconfiguration of existing office space to accommodate new formal and informal meeting space.
- Rebranding the space and providing feature directional and wayfinding graphics and signage packages.
- The provision of new furniture, fixtures and fittings and AV equipment.
- Mechanical and Electrical Services co-ordination.
- Detailed acoustic studies and design proposals to ensure the performance of secure meeting rooms.
Key Challenges:
- Liaison with business end users and housekeeping team to deliver the optimum combination / size of meeting room space.
- Integration with the existing mechanical services optimising the use of AHU's with CO2 monitoring therefore negating the need for major works to base plant.
- Working within business critical areas of an occupied building including trading floors working to a defined budget while offering a Client 'shopping list' of 'nice to have' inclusions and working them into the scheme at the appropriate time significant.
- Audio visual alternatives investigated to include video conferencing, iWalls, interactive way-finding and presentation space.
- Work to achieve very stringent acoustic performance ratings.
- Achieving branding and look and feel decisions with a variety of stakeholders
Form of Contract: JCT IFC 2005 with Contractors Design
