News & Views

Project Completion – Cochrane Street! We were pleased to round off the month of June with the successful hand over of another residential project to Westminster City Council.  The works at Cochrane Street form part of the council’s Infill Programme, which is focused on making the best use of their existing land to provide new homes for people living and working in Westminster. Neilcott were appointed to demolish seven garages within the existing Wellington Road Estate and undertake the design and construction of two new three-storey townhouses within the garages’ previous footprint. In-line with Westminster City Council’s Climate Emergency declaration, the new homes have been built to modern highly energy-efficient specifications to achieve Zero Carbon standards. The Neilcott team were instrumental in developing tender specifications to achieve the required performance through: Additional PV panels Increased wattage of the original PVs shown at planning stage Gas fired boilers with flue heat recovery Enhanced building fabric u-values

A busy month at the YMCA! Check out our timelapse for the month of June at the YMCA!  Last month saw the continuation of  the concrete frame installation.  The timelapse shows the close coordination required between erecting the falsework, laying the decking, installing reinforcement and pumping the concrete slabs in order to achieve optimum timescales. Neilcott were appointed following single stage competitive tender to undertake Phase 1 of the YMCA redevelopment.  The existing YMCA building required urgent modernisation and this scheme will provide 121 hostel rooms with en-suite bathrooms and cooking facilities, to help give residents a better quality of life and support them back into independent living. In addition, YMCA residents and the Wimbledon community will benefit from new and improved, affordable facilities, including a gym, bigger studio space for fitness classes, a children’s area and brand-new YMCA café. Following completion next year, YMCA residents will move into the new facility enabling the existing building to be demolished ready for future redevelopment.

Kiln Place wins RIBA London Award 2022 and RIBA National Award 2022! We would like to congratulate Peter Barber Architects on their recent RIBA London Award and RIBA National Award for their design of Kiln Place, Camden. This extremely complex development comprises 6 infill sites within the Kiln Place Estate. Peter Barber Architects were challenged with creating attractive, spacious feeling family homes on an existing parking lot, a disused plant room and a bin store!  The finished project successfully illustrates how local authorities can provide new high-density public housing that is sensitive and does not require the demolition of existing homes. For more information on the project you can visit https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/riba-london-award-winners/2022/kiln-place.

New Project Win – Notting Hill and Ealing High School! The Girls’ Day School Trust is the UK’s leading family of 25 independent girls’ schools, delivering academic excellence in first class facilities. We are proud to have worked with the Trust at a number of their schools as they develop and upgrade their estate, most recently at Wimbledon High School, Bromley High School and Brighton Girls’ School.  We are therefore thrilled to be continuing our relationship with GDST by undertaking construction works at their Notting Hill and Ealing High School site to deliver a new junior school building. The new junior school building will be constructed using a highly-sustainable hybrid cross laminated timber-framed solution and will provide teaching spaces for creative arts, life sciences, technology, ICT, music and general study. Works are due to commence later this summer and the new facility will be ready for the new school year in 2023.