Budgets:
Cat A fit out: £10m
Cat B fit outs: £200,000-600,000
Procurement: Traditional & Design and Build
Roles: Project Management, Development Monitoring and Cost Management
This property comprises a commercial building located adjacent to Oxford Circus that had been vacant for some time and was dated in its appearance.
Dendy Byrne provided full project management duties for this instruction.
About The Project
We assisted with project team selection, undertaking a feasibility review for various proposed uses and extent of fit out and subsequently managing the chosen scheme through to completion.
The property was comprehensively refurbished and the external appearance of the building updated, with the external cladding modernised and a new entrance fenestration with canopy created. A roof level a new roof terrace was provided with adjacent communal break out and meeting room facilities, whilst extensive end of journey facilities were installed within the basement.
The works, and others planned to the buildings in the street and undertaken by others, required extensive logistics review and coordination. To assist with this, and support our client, our appointment included a project coordination role. We reviewed all planned works, liaised with the various parties involved and scheduled regular coordination review meetings to manage the collective approach to the various projects. Careful logistics planning culminated in the implementation of a road closure and shared logistics compound between the sites. A strong approach to health and safety and mitigation of the impact of the works on customers, stakeholders and the public were core objectives.
Supporting Services
We subsequently project managed a series of Cat B fit outs to the office floors.
We were also engaged to monitor the development undertaken to the retail unit by Microsoft. This included complex structural alterations including the removal of principal columns and introduction of new structural framing.