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Client: British Nuclear Group
Value: £99k

Cre8tive were contacted by an Office Furniture company as they were not able to deal with the office fit out side of the project for British Nuclear Group. The customer had already employed an architect to specify what was required and so it was really a case of demonstrating that we knew what we were doing and that could cost the project to meet the clients budget. This project took place on the ground floor of Mallard Court.

The project was designed by Oxford Architects who specified the partition system.

The project was a 6 week duration project which had to run under the Construction Design and Management regulations. Cre8tive Interiors acted as Principle Contractor on the project. The office fit out for British Nuclear Group consisted of Komfort Double Glazed Polar Demountable Partition System, as well as single glazed Polar screens and Komfort Komfire 100 partitions. The project also included supplying and fitting of a kitchen from Howdens, new carpets, fitting of fire barriers in the ceiling and floor voids, and complete decoration of the workspace.

Initial design and drawing work

Partitions for British Nuclear Group — Partitioning layout

Design for British Nuclear Group in Bridgewater — Electrical work

Kitchen design for BNG Bridgewater — Kitchen details

Kitchen details BNG — More kitchen details

Initial site photographs before work

Office fit out for BNG Bridgewater — First job, check materials access

Office fitting in Bridgewater — All open with glass

Construction Photographs

Working for the British Nuclear Group had it’s challenges. As you would expect every aspect of the work was scrutinized, we also had to have a permanent person on site all of the time which sometimes on projects like this we do not always need to have fitters doing work whilst other work is being done by others. BNG contracted their own duct work people, so they had to carry out some works when we had to be off site.

Office Interiors for BNG — Electrician looking puzzled!

Demountable Partitioning in Bridgewater — Frames up, looking at bording now.

Sound partitions in Bridgewater — Insulation being unrolled

Partitioning in Bridgewater — More walls to be borded

Glass wall partitioning in Bridgewater — Drylined ready for decorations, tracks in for glass

Glass walls in Bridgewater — Better view of the tracks for glass

Office kitchen in Bridgewater — Kitchen under construction

Kitchen for BNG — Kitchen under construction

Kitchenette for office — Kitchen under construction

Glass wall partitions — Tracks in for glass nibs

Decoration in Bridgewater — Still decorating..

Muraspec wall papering for offices — Still decorating..

Office Partitioning for BNG — Doors being made ready

Office refurbishment in Bridgewater — Another door hung

Glass walls for offices — Glass going in for the offices

Glass wall partitioning — Single glazed glass nibs running into the office

Glass office partitions — Main glass delivery, carefully does it.

Glass Partitioning for BNG — More glass being moved about.

Glass office partitions for BNG Bridgewater — Nearly done

Glass partitioning for British Nuclear Group — Another door to hang

office doors for glass office partitions — Last one..

Open space office partitioning — NIce open space ready for furniture

Office partitioning in Bridgewater — still a bit of work to do in the kitchen

Completed Photographs

Glass partitioning in Bridgewater — Almost finished kitchen

New glass offices — New glass partitioning

Glass offices in Bridgewater — New single office

Why Demountable Partitioning?

This particular project had what we call demountable partitioning in it. Landlords insist on this type as it can be easily relocated without doing much damage to the building.

Demountable partitioning is tax efficient in that they are seen as movable items and so can be treated differently in writing down allowances in the accounts.
We can also lease Demountable Partitioning as they are movable, this spreads the costs of having the work done as Demountable Partitions always cost more than customers think.
Leasing of demountable partitioning is very tax efficient and Cre8tive can provide illustrations, please contact us for further information.
Most landlords insist on demountable partitions being used for offices as it is much easier to take them out should the tenant renting the space leave for any reason. The benefit is that is saves making a huge amount of mess and destruction that would be need with a conventional stud and plasterboard constructed wall.

Need an Office Fitting out?

This particular project was driven by BNG with a design carried out by Oxford Architects. We were the contractor who completed the work. If you need any design work doing we can do this, as well as being the principle contractor for the work.

Any questions please do not hesitate to contact us on 01380 73 88 44 or email [email protected]

Refurbishment

Cre8tive was asked to tender to carry out an office refurbishment in a 3 storey building in Shepton Mallet. Having successfully won the project, the next problem was how to carry out the work in a relatively short space of time, over the winter months with snow on the ground and no heating until the air conditioning was commissioned. The building was not a traditional office, in that there were no suspended ceilings (and not the height to fit any), and no raised floors, and the customer wanted lots of walls removed as well as fitting CAT6 cable into floor boxes in all of the floors.

All of the major elements that are used in a conventional office refurbishment were used, electrical work including data cabling, new lighting, reconfiguration of the power between floors, flooring using a rubber insulation floor to reduce sound transfer between floors, new air conditioning throughout, new kitchens on the floors including new appliances.

One of the difficulties was that the work had to be carried out in the winter months and without any heating until the air conditioning system was installed it was freezing on site. We had heaters but you cannot have the heaters on too much as it would dry out the plaster too quickly causing cracking. The paint also did not dry out properly so it just made the project much more difficult to complete. We also had snow to contend with and we lost several days as the guys could not get into work. We did finish the project a week early allowing the customer some more time on getting the IT equipment in.

Existing building photographs