Box Twenty worked on this redevelopment project which was a former bakery site, to provide a 61-bed new-build student accommodation block including communal spaces and a “twodio” apartment.

We also provided services for an adjacent flexible commercial 2-storey new-build building.

We were appointed to develop robust strategies for the development for planning, and then to develop these further into a set of Employers Requirements

documents and drawings for tender. We were retained client side throughout contractor appointment, reviewing the successful contractors’ proposals and attending site during the construction phases to ensure that the works were being implemented in accordance with the ER’s. We then attended site to witness commissioning and for the handover of the buildings.

Working with Nash Partnership at the pre-planning stages we developed robust Energy & M&E strategies in order to achieve a successful planning consent. The scheme incorporates electric heating, gas-fired hot water and PV panels on the roof of both the student and commercial buildings.

We developed a “Pod” design for the student bathrooms and also worked closely with the steelwork fabricator as this was to be a metal-framed building.

Box Twenty undertook early 3D services modelling in Revit to demonstrate primary M&E services routes and to determine whether we had sufficient space below beams and within risers in order to satisfactorily distribute our services.

We obtained utility mapping records indicating existing services in the vicinity of the site and produced our own combined services drawings which we put on both the existing site and proposed site layout drawings. In doing this we were able to determine that a new entrance was to be formed onto the site which affected telecoms and electricity services that were currently within the footpath, but which would be beneath the new proposed access road. We also met with the utility’s providers on site in order to determine the best way of bringing new supplies to site and to divert the existing services to facilitate the proposed development.

Box Twenty have completed our design of the Tender package and were retained client side to monitor and review the Contractors proposals and works on site until project completion.