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Barnwell House

State-of-the-art office facilities in a location rich in aerospace history

The Project

Barnwell House, a new-build open plan office space designed to house Airbus’s UK engineering teams, was recently completed. The project included the design, build and fit-out of a new four-storey office building and energy centre to accommodate 2,350 staff. The building is some 90m square and is open plan, including 4 atria. 


Building Control

At design stage it was found that the application of Part B (Fire Safety) would be too limiting for the intended scale of the building. Through extensive consultation with Oculus, a BS 9999:2008 strategy was created by the design team which among other enhancements, enabled the use of much extended travel distances resulting fewer escape stairs than was originally anticipated.


CASE STUDY
Carlton Club, London

Following a fire risk assessment on the club, Oculus was brought in to find suitable solutions for fire safety works required in the significant findings of the report. With the club being a listed building any works would need to have minimal impact on the historic fabric and disruption to the guest accommodation in the Club kept to a minimum. 

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CASE STUDY
Apex Hotel - Bath

The existing eight storey office block was demolished and construction began early 2015. The hotel,  a new 4* luxury hotel in central Bath opened as planned boasting 177 contemporary bedrooms, a 400 capacity conference facitlity and event spaces, making it Bath’s largest hotel in this regard.

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CASE STUDY
National Museum of the Royal Navy

Storehouse 10 at the historic naval dockyard in Portsmouth was constructed in the mid-eighteenth century, during an upsurge in naval building prompted by events such as the Seven Years War. It was originally used to store everyday supplies for working ships plus some naval items.

During the Second World War, Storehouse 10 was hit by an incendiary bomb, which destroyed the clock tower and most of the roof and upper floors. More extensive damage was prevented due to a strenuous firefighting effort to save the radar sets within, which were to be some of the first installed in Royal Navy ships.

Restoration of Storehouse 10 was gradual and was eventually completed in 1992. It has now been converted to form part of the National Museum for the Royal Navy complex. 

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