The University of London MEP (Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing Infrastructure) Phase 2 works is part of the University’s wider masterplan, designed to modernise estate, assets and support the University’s world-renowned intercollegiate education and student experience.
Works were undertaken within a compressed timeframe throughout the summer holiday period in 2019 and were undertaken across three locations:

• Connaught Hall
• Nutford House, Annex & Seymore Place
  Works consisted of the following main elements:

Connaught Hall – Kitchen, Dining Hall & Lower Ground Floor Student bedrooms; Communal Areas, Communal Rooms, Plant Areas
Design & construction works to install a new commercial kitchen on the Lower Ground Floor, refurbishment of the Lower Ground Floor Dining Hall, public areas, student bedrooms and all associated demolition and asbestos removal.

Full renewal of all MEP (domestic water, heating, ventilation, electrical distribution, small power, lighting, fire alarm) on Lower Ground Floor, partial renewal of MEP on Ground Floor and 4th Floor, new MEP plant and equipment to main Plant Room, and associated investigation, demolition, and asbestos removal.

Nutford House, Nutford House (Annex – Brown Street) & Seymour Place Phase 2 MEP works

Partial renewal of electrical services, refurbishment of student kitchens, toilets, showers. To include:

• Fire alarm systems
• Lighting / Emergency
• Lighting
  Electrical installations, mains and sub mains
• Building Management System
• Heating pipework infrastructure installation
• Pumps and pump sets
• Heat exchangers / Heating controls
• Plumbing HCWS
• Drainage, internal and external
• Water tanks and water storage
• Ventilation systems /Extraction systems
• Fire doors, seals, door actuators and controls
• Fire barriers
  Lifts

With an extremely constrained timetable, Neilcott mobilised quickly at our own risk to progress MEP design – required to meet the unmoveable deadlines in order to facilitate move- in of a new cohort of students for the new academic year.