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Christchurch Court

Details

• Location: Central London
  
• Status: Completed
  

Services

• As-Built Drawings
• BRUKL
• Detailed Design
• EPC
• Specification Writing
• Thermal Modelling
• Uncategorized

Major Refurbishment and remodelling of this 429,000sqft 9 storey office building in Central London. Christchurch Court is located on a prime island site on the North East Corner of Paternoster Square – the City’s premier public square. The new terrace on Level 7 provides protected and uninterrupted views of St Pauls and Paternoster Square.

The new facilities offer high-quality, Grade A office accommodation with the benefit of natural light from two atria dropping through the building to Level 2. There is a high specification throughout with enhanced heights to Levels 1 and 2.

The building boasts best in class end of journey facilities with over 600 long stay and short stay cycle spaces, cycle lift and extensive high-quality showering/changing facilities. Wellbeing is further enhanced by the on-site gym, yoga and spin studios. The ground floor incorporates the double height reception, café and VIP car drop off area.

Building Services were designed throughout to minimise energy usage and CO2 emissions and meet BREEAM Excellent.

In terms of MEP services, the most significant challenge on Christchurch Court was routing all main services through the extremely congested two storey basement whilst creating space for the extensive end of journey and gym facilities. Whilst this was not a BIM project the Building Services team decided that the only way we could successfully route services through the basement was to expand the available structural model by adding all architectural features in order to have an accurate base for modelling the services.

An additional challenge was to accommodate the provision of smoke ventilation to the whole of the two basement floors with restricted plant space, exhaust locations and headroom. In order to meet the requirements a zonal smoke ventilation system was developed by our Building Services Engineering team. This system partially utilised normal supply plant for make up together with dedicated extract fans and a complex zonal damper control system.

Finding suitable diverse routes for cabling to life safety plant was extremely problematic on this project. A lesson therefore learnt was the need to consider diverse routing requirements for cabling to life safety plant as an integral part of the early planning stages of any project to ensure that diverse routes are available and practical.