Exeter College Victoria Yard

Project Description

Creation of £3.5m 3-storey creative industries building for Exeter College

£750k Refurbishment and extension of existing Victoria Road Studios

Creative studies block was created to house engineering, media, art and design and performing arts studies with high levels of natural daylight through

This project comprised of the relocation of the existing art block and workshops. The project comprised of new dark room, woodwork room, welding bay, pottery room and kiln room. Extension block provided to house the College’s reprographic facilities together with additional pottery and screen printing areas

Piped welding gas supplies, with external bottle storage area for oxygen and acetelyn

Control compressed air supplies to bench areas

Welding bay extract system utilising flexible welding extract arms connected to a centralised duct system

A dust extraction system was designed to provide extraction to the woodwork workshop utilising external dust extractor unit

Full incoming LV Switchgear mains with replacement mains at Victoria Yard

Full fire alarm rewire to Victoria Yard and Falcon Road

Provision of power distribution and emergency control systems to specialist equipment including welding plant, lathes, milling machines, drills, lathes, bandsaws vacuum systems, and compressors

Design of lighting arrangement to dark rooms