Spinningfields
Manchester, Greater Manchester
Extensive refurbishment across 8 floors of a high-rise office development to create a new northern headquarters for NatWest.
Blackpool, Lancashire
Fylde View Hub
Department for Work & Pensions (DWP)
The new state-of-the-art, sustainable building, developed by Blackpool City Council, Muse Developments, and VINCI Construction, is a vibrant new hub for DWP staff across the northwest.
Forming part of the multi-million-pound Talbot Gateway project, the seven-storey, purpose-built office building will act as a further catalyst for the regeneration of Blackpool town centre.
The energy efficient, low-carbon building has achieved BREEAM Excellent; incorporating measures to ensure long-term sustainability and promote occupant well-being.
Key Information
3,000
staff
215,000
square feet
7
storeys
Excellent
BREEAM accreditation
McBains provided technical compliance advice for DWP from RIBA Stage 2 to completion for the new office building in central Blackpool. We resourced a multi-disciplinary team for Stage 2 and 3 design, as well as the development brief and a technical review of the Agreement for Lease for the 25-year lease with Blackpool City Council. The building was designed around DWP Design Standards, ensuring the CAT A and CAT B development were fully integrated.
Once construction started on site (Stage 5), our role evolved to a tenant monitoring role on behalf of DWP, where our technical team and two clerk of works reviewed all sub-contractor drawings (over 3,000 drawings just in Stage 5) and attended site regularly to ensure delivery to DWP design standards and the Development Brief. We developed a close working relationship with the developer team, working together to find solutions to inevitable issues on site, as well as ensuring that the accelerated construction programme still retained the quality agreed.
The 215,000 sq. ft offices have been designed to be as energy efficient as possible, with high levels of insulation, low-carbon heating and cooling and demand-driven ventilation, helping to reduce the building’s overall carbon footprint.
The façade panels are a new technology of high tensile strength fibre-reinforced pre-cast concrete, which improves durability in a high-salinity marine environment and limits the embodied carbon of the building.
The award-winning project was an enormous success, finishing early and under budget, and with a smooth move-in of 3,000 staff.
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