Engineering Services for Buildings

Our latest challenge – Student Accommodation refurbishment in central London

Bower Fuller’s Southern office has recently secured a fast track refurbishment of student accommodation in the Barbican, London.

Therese House is a purpose built student accommodation in the centre of London covering a number of London Universities including City, UCL, Kings College and Imperial College.

Working closely with Thomas Sinden we are reconfiguring and refurbishing the electrical and mechanical services to 247 mixed units of studios with kitchen facilities and 4/6 bedroom flats with a central kitchen in each flat.

The project provides new LED energy efficient lighting throughout, new kitchen facilities in the flats and will maintain their modern, well equipped high standard set out when the building was first constructed.

A mock-up of a typical room reconfiguration was initially undertaken to understand the implications and timeframe. The 14 week fast track programme has already started and to assist the programme we have combined our resources with the Ipswich office.

With the project due to finish in early December 2016, we have a testing time ahead, however we know the challenge and are working hard to ensure we meet the deadlines.

Therese House