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The practice is experienced in commercial refurbishment. We often work with difficult sites and have carried out extensions to include adding additional upper floors to offices while work continued below. The adjacent illustration indicates a floor of offices built on top of an existing 3 storey office block. Work continued on 3 floors below virtually uninterrupted because of careful logistic planning.

Refurbishment, particularly when the client requires to be in occupation, carries a large challenge in organisational terms, working in close liaison with the client and also ensuring the contractor is aware of the inherent problems of safety, interference and protection.

We have worked with clients on traditional contracts where we have been architects and CDM co-ordinators. We have also acted as employers agents on design and build contracts, producing contract details and overseeing the contracts for clients.

We have been involved in access consultancy work for larger clients, this has generally been in relation to works required to ensure compliance with DDA legislation. We are also able to produce access audits for new and existing buildings.