26 June 2023
Collins has completed the refurbishment and fit out of Chancery House on behalf of our client, The Office Group.
The Collins team and its partners, Opera, dMFK, Castle Hayes Pursey, Heyne Tillett Steel, Environmental Engineering Partnership and MLM, have delivered 165,000 sq. of works to transform an historic but worn building into a vibrant, sophisticated and high-quality, flexible working space.
The team carried out extensive structural works to extend the internal atrium from the ground to third floor, increasing the office floor area by 4,000 sq. ft, and creating a new roof and external curtain wall façade. The ground floor lightwells have been opened-up to create lower ground level courtyards and a new third floor roof terrace now offers outside space as part of the refurbishment.
With the London Silver Vaults, the world’s largest retail selection of antique and contemporary silver, occupying the basement levels of the building, an important deliverable of the tender brief was for our team to develop a scheme which allowed the extensive alterations to complete successfully whilst maintaining the integrity of the vaults and its day-to-day trading, access and security.
The team developed an in-depth phasing and logistics plan to facilitate the extensive steelwork that needed to be brought to site and lifted over the building, whilst causing minimal disruption to surrounding neighbours and commercial premises. This was further complimented by a series of complex temporary sequences to ensure the stability of the existing 1950s building throughout the alterations process.
