What innovative strategies were implemented to optimise the site's development potential?
Although the site is in a typically challenging urban location in a conservation area directly adjacent to streets with varying levels we adopted a challenging but successful design approach where by relocating the transfer slab from the usual location at first floor to street level and building part of the non-residential areas at ground floor in modular we were able to build residential accommodation at ground floor and for 2 further levels in the south facing sunken courtyard area at the rear. This ensured that we maximized the development potential of the site and the vast majority of the building was constructed using volumetric offsite techniques with all the advantages of speed and quality that enables.
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This offsite approach was extended to the plant area also. The plant installation was designed to be procured, assembled and tested offsite then disassembled into smaller units for transport and reassembly on site.
