Sector: Public & Community
Project Description
£1.5m Replacement Roman Catholic church built to modern standards
130 seat worship space, with attached sacristy, community hall, kitchen, meeting rooms and parish office
The interior worship space is a single light and spacious volume, with white plastered walls, lit indirectly from the narthex and by top lighting over the sanctuary
Wall mounted crucifix was brought from the old church. Congregation seating arranged in a shallow curve, facing towards the central sanctuary
Altar, ambo, font, and tabernacle pedestal are of textured Cornish granite
“ A new church for the town, with worship space, hall, kitchen, meeting rooms and parish office”
Project Involvement
Complete load assessments to establish building load
Existing site infrastructure review to identify site diversions and isolations
Design of new site infrastructure to serve the new church
Develop energy strategies to meet planning requirements
Detailed design of building mechanical and electrical engineering services including full production of detailed design information.
Thermal modelling of densely occupied facility to inform ventilation design to limit summertime overheating.
Daylight model to demonstrate the provision of high quality daylight to the worship space and hall
Project Benefits
Worked collaboratively as a part of an integrated design team, providing our low carbon and building environmental expertise to deliver a sustainable building demonstrating environmentally friendly options for both the design and on-going operation
Specialist Interior lighting design to suit the ecclesiastical nature of the building with lighting scenes to suit flexible use
Worked closely with the interior designer in the final co-ordination for fully integrated appearance
Co-ordination of power, data and infrastructure to specialist audio visual distribution systems
Undertake quality walks with specialist sub-contractors to identify emerging quality issues and enable preventative measures to be implemented
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