Client: King’s College London
Type of work: Refurbishment of existing offices, formation of new open plan areas. Seminar room. Meeting rooms, corridors and kitchen/breakout area.
Site address: 5th Floor Bermondsey Wing, Guys Hospital, Great Maze Road, London, SE1 9RT
Office Suite – Refurbishment Guys Hospital
The Project
The project comprised the entire refurbishment of existing areas, various small office, open plan area with internal office and meeting rooms, a lecture / seminar room and Refurbish kitchen / welfare area, due to the occupation of the office these works were carried out in 7No continuous phases. Works including:
- Full back to shell strip out
- Full M&E installation,
- Partition walling,Ceilings, New Glazed partitions and fire door sets, various flooring, hygienic cladding new kitchen
- Decorating throughout
- Fire stopping works.
- Formation of new Comms room within old store room
- Installation of new storage facilities
Office Suite – Refurbishment Guys Hospital
The Problems We Faced
Working within occupied areas, and keeping services running throughout the project.
Managing the client and their teams during each phase and ensure they were not disturbed
Office Suite – Refurbishment Guys Hospital
How We Solved The Problems
To ensure service were maintained safety for users and our teams, we firstly installed an independent fire detection system which enabled the old system to be removed and disconnect from the old system as it could not be linked out to suit the phase works [the new system was linked into the hospital main system but as it was latest technology could be fully maintained throughout the works–while these works were completed the M&E teams were able to validate all the existing services so they had full knowledge of the existing systems and could maintain them while installing the new upgraded services.
Office Suite – Refurbishment Guys Hospital
How We Solved The Problems
Daily meetings with the Client team ensured all parties where fully aware of what works we were undertaking and we had records of when important meetings / classes would be happening so we ensure noisy works would not disturb the office and study groups.
We ensure all demolition works were carried out over weekends to ensure areas were altered and safe areas formed to keep site areas and general areas separated at all times, when we carried out the refurbishment of the Kitchen / welfare we set up a temporary tea point in a location to ensure the team had full facilities during these works.
