2019

Neuron Pod
London

Queen Mary University of London’s ‘Neuron Pod’ is an extension to Will Alsop’s award-winning Blizard Institute and informal science learning centre ‘Centre of the Cell’ in the Whitechapel medical and dental campus of Queen Mary. The purpose of both the Centre of the Cell and the new Neuron Pod is to provide an exemplary programme of public engagement with science to children, young people, adults and the local community.

The £2m free-standing pod sits on three legs, is 10m high, 23m long, weighs 25 tonnes and is connected to the Centre of the Cell’s current space via a bridge.

Made up of 13 steel sections – prefabricated and then assembled on site – the structure is covered in 500 fibre optic spines which represent dendrites (hair-like extensions of nerve cells that transmit electrochemical signal) and light up at night.

The space can accommodate up to 60 people and will also be used to host community and cultural events, as well as external hire.

Tottenham Hale
London

This major redevelopment by Argent Related will see the construction of six new buildings in central Tottenham Hale, supporting Haringey Council’s plans to transform five pieces of land earmarked for change into a new ‘District Centre’.

The scheme will provide 1,030 new homes (a mix of affordable, market sale and rental), up to 20 retail spaces, co-working and office space and a health centre serving 20,000 people, complete with two football pitches’ worth of public realm.

Brentford Lock West
London

Phase 3 of the Waterside Places’ (a joint venture between Muse Developments and the Canal & River Trust) scheme will deliver seven new buildings ranging in height from five to ten storeys comprising 452 new homes (187 affordable) alongside commercial and retail space fronting a new public square as well as a new public footbridge.

This stretch of the Grand Union Canal will also see towpath improvements, new mooring facilities and the renovation of the existing dock. A new bus depot will also be constructed as part of the wider Brentford Lock development to replace the existing Metrolink facility.

National Trust for Scotland
Helensburgh

The National Trust for Scotland has embarked on a five year plan to enhance visitor experiences at key sites to encourage more people to experience the tradition and heritage of landmark buildings.

One of the projects involves the conservation of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House in Helensburgh. The house will be encased in a semi-permeable mesh pavilion, designed by Carmody Groarke, to shield the building during works allowing it to dry out so conservation works can be undertaken to save the world-famous house for generations to come.

National Museum of Scotland
Edinburgh

The National Museum of Scotland has completed a 15 year, £80m redevelopment transforming its Category A Listed Victorian building to create a highly engaging and interactive visitor experience with new gallery spaces and extensive learning facilities alongside new café and retail spaces.

The museum, the most popular visitor attraction in the UK outside of London, now boasts 29 gallery spaces including the Grand Gallery which has been transformed into a light and airy space connecting the new gallery spaces over four floors.

Assembly Bristol
Bristol

Work has begun on the first phase of the Assembly mixed-use regeneration scheme, believed to be the largest speculative office development ever undertaken in Bristol, to provide much needed Grade A office space for the Bristol market. The AXA/Bell Hammer scheme will deliver 300,000 sq ft of commercial office space across three buildings located around a new waterfront public realm and promises a thriving workplace with an emphasis on staff wellbeing by providing rooftop amenity space, south facing balconies and ‘best in class’ cycle and changing facilities.

The development is targeting a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating, WELL enabled design and Wiredscore Platinum accreditation for connectivity.

Mathematical Sciences & Computer Science Building - Durham University
Durham

This new 9,160m² state of the art teaching, learning and research facility, located on the University’s Upper Mountjoy campus, will house the Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science departments of Durham University.

Designed by Ryder Architecture, the building is one of the first major projects of the University Estate Masterplan 2017-2027 and provides a variety of teaching and study spaces, including an Enterprise Hub, collaborative break-out areas and a 120-person lecture theatre as well as a number of academic offices.

Work commenced on site in November 2018 with the facility due to open for the start of the 2020/2021 academic year.

Heathrow - Independent Fund Surveyor
London

The G&T team at Heathrow was recently nominated for Transport Team Partnership of the Year with Heathrow Airport Limited and Heathrow Airline Operators Committee at this year’s London Transport Awards in recognition or our work for the provision of development monitoring services at the airport.

Our role is to ensure that capital funds are invested efficiently to meet project objectives which involves our team assuring the programme and project development through major gateways followed by monthly reviews through the design and delivery phases. This includes reviewing the brief and business case, through governance, design development, procurement, delivery and transition to operation.

We are engaged on a diverse range of projects from typically £5m to £450m incorporating asset replacement, airport resilience, passenger experience and Heathrow expansion using our expertise in development and project management, cost, schedule, risk and opportunity, procurement and construction to ensure that we identify and report on issues that affect delivery of value.

Middlewood Locks
Manchester

G&T was appointed by Fairbriar International in 2012 to deliver Middlewood Locks, a new mixed-use destination located between Manchester and Salford City Centres comprising 2,000 new homes as well as nearly 1 million sq ft of commercial development.

Phase 1 is now complete, delivering 571 apartments with associated public realm. Phase 2 started on site in late 2018 and comprises four separate buildings providing 546 apartments with private podium gardens together with ground level parking and landscaped gardens adjoining the park space next to the canal.

Globe Road
Leeds

A £130m development by Delancey Oxford Residential, APG and Qatari Diar in central Leeds which will create a new neighbourhood featuring 780 homes across eight apartment blocks, ranging from eight to 23 storeys in height, on a vacant 2.26 hectare site.

The development will also include adaptable landscaped pedestrian areas, in excess of 100 car and motorcycle parking spaces and a number of commercial units at ground floor level. The last phase will be to construct a residents’ hub building on the smaller Greenbank site.

Carnegie School of Sport
Leeds

The Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University will bring together facilities from the School of Sport, which are currently spread across the Headingley campus, and consolidate them into a modern purpose built facility.

Designed by Sheppard Robson, the new facility will be a base for the elite athletes who use the university’s sports performance expertise. As well as general teaching areas and research laboratories, the 8,300m² building will feature a range of specialist facilities including a 60m covered rooftop running track and an environmental chamber which can replicate different altitudes and environments.

Remaking Clandon Park
Guildford

The Grade I Listed house at Clandon Park dates to the early 1700s. It was built for the Onslow family and given to the National Trust in 1956. One of the UK’s most complete examples of a Palladian mansion, the house was gutted by fire in April 2015, devastating much of its collection and leaving the building open to the sky.

Following a yearlong phase of stabilisation and salvage, the Trust commissioned a detailed conservation plan of the house and gardens to inform decisions about Clandon’s future.

The vision for Clandon is to remake the house room by room, painstakingly restoring the principal rooms on the ground floor and reimagining the upper floors where nearly everything was destroyed. This will include gallery spaces and areas for learning and events, as well as a new café. The remade Clandon Park will balance the restored Palladian masterpieces against the new spaces, creating a beautiful and thought-provoking whole.

In 2018, following an international design competition, Allies and Morrison was appointed as lead architects, supported by a large team including conservation architect Purcell and landscape architects Robert Myers. The National Trust is now finalising the feasibility study and masterplan for the project, before designs are shared more widely.

Google's New London HQ

G&T is providing Cost Consultancy and Contract Administration services at Google’s new London headquarters. Once complete, the building will be one of the most advanced smart buildings in the world. As Google is the end user occupier, they have been able to push the boundaries more than usual so that smart capabilities are fully integrated.

The appointment of a Master Systems Integrator (MSI) at the earliest possible stage was a key focus on this project. This is not unique to this building as it has occurred on other end user Smart buildings but it is an additional role over and above that which is usually found on a “typical” office build and the scope in this instance far exceeds what has been done before. This is in respect of the quantity of data that is going into the BIM model detailing the properties of each of the building components and the level of testing of those components in advance of construction in a “laboratory” or workshop environment to ensure compatibility.

In order to mitigate the issue of technical obsolescence as far as possible, the MSI contractor on this project is engaging with all trades and their respective suppliers to ensure that the ability to accommodate future advances in technology currently in development is built in. A key part of this has been to ensure that all components are open source, allowing them to communicate with each other and the integrated building control system (BCS) which can then offer data up to Google’s network.

New City Court
London

New high rise office building and retail development for Great Portland Estates plc located between the Shard, London Bridge and Borough Market.

The main 37-storey building will provide high quality office space with retail and leisure at the lower levels accessed from the new public realm. ‘Hub’ space will be located on levels 21 and 22 with a 250-seat auditorium and outdoor terrace. An impressive double-height public garden will be created at levels 5 and 6 with views across London.

Buckingham Green
London

High quality mixed-use scheme in Westminster by London & Oriental comprising 64 luxury apartments, 55,000 sq ft of office accommodation and 11,000 sq ft of retail space across three buildings with interlinking public space.

The existing tower has been extensively remodelled by Fletcher Priest Architects as luxury apartments with office and retail space on the lower floors. The original podium has been replaced by The Caxton which provides offices with a roof garden and a further office, The Gate House, designed to complement the adjacent Listed Albert Tavern.

1&2 Broadgate
London

New AHMM designed office and retail scheme for British Land and its joint venture partner GIC Private Limited.

Situated on the existing Broadgate campus, the 14-storey scheme comprises 150,000 sq ft of retail, restaurant and leisure uses over four lower floors with 375,000 sq ft of new prime office space above. Terraces and balconies will provide amenity and green space for users of the building.

Eigthyfen
London

New 15-storey office building being developed by YardNine and Partners Group to provide over 250,000 sq ft of workspace with retail on the ground floor. Currently under construction, the office accommodation will benefit from a spiralling atrium allowing light throughout the centre of the building. The two storey reception area will provide a business lounge, health facilities and a café for the building’s users. Six landscaped roof terraces will offer 360 degree views of the City and beyond.

For more information visit: EightyFen.com

Twickenham
London

Following completion of the Twickenham East Stand development where G&T provided Cost Management services, we were engaged by the RFU to provide life cycle costs and asset replacement plans for the new stand to enable them to plan for future costs and forecasts for future asset replacement for the next 120 years.

For the RFU the ability to understand the current and future costs for its single most important building is essential to ensure assets are actively managed to ensure the longevity and quality of the stadium.

G&T developed a dynamic asset planning tool to allow future costs to be mapped and planned as well as individual building assets and elements to be tracked within their financial system in a consistent manner. The model not only provides a plan for a single point in time, it can also be updated to track asset replacements and costs annually.

Warner Music Group
Los Angeles

G&T’s LA office completed the new Rockwell Group designed West Coast Headquarters for Warner Music Group, which boasts record labels and publishing such as Warner Brother Records, Warner Chappell Music and Atlantic Records under its umbrella.

The vision was to consolidate three existing office locations and six core business groups under one roof in the ever growing and expanding Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles. The brief was for a state of the art, creative office environment that would retain, develop and attract talent and strengthen the existing artist roster to expand WMG’s market share.

The project comprises 200,000 sq ft of creative office space and 30,000 sq ft of shared collaboration spaces including the ‘Center Stage’, a fully functional live performance venue. The building showcases an original Shepard Fairey art installation, custom designed sound systems for all of its critical listening spaces, state of the art sound studios and custom designed Italian office front and a fully refurbished and branded water tower.

Sotheby's Galleries Transformed
New York City

Sotheby’s, the famous New York City auction house, celebrates its 275th anniversary by opening its doors to a newly designed exhibition gallery.

The goal was to transform the existing 67,000 sq ft gallery space into a 90,000 sq ft museum-quality space, including the formation of new gallery spaces and 40,000 sq ft of new office space and property storage. The project involved extensive structural alterations to form double height gallery spaces, a state of the art digital signage package and replacement of all passenger and freight elevator cars. All work was carried out in an occupied building, phased around Sotheby’s key exhibitions and shows.