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Veale AssociatesCreative Acoustics

St. Mary’s Road Entrance Hall

REFURBISHMENT REPORT

Building the future

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ACOUSTIC CONSULTANCYVeale Associates designs and customises acoustic solutions. We help businesses, individuals and all organisations to make the best choices for their business or for their homes. Our team specialises in commercial acoustics, have provided acoustic advice and design services in the media, music broadcast and education fields. We solve all the problems in acoustics quickly and to a high quality standard. Our main feature is the optimisation of costs. The aim of the work should be the resolution of the problem the best price prerogative of a qualified team. We divide our services in three main categories: Technical reports, designing acoustic and acoustic consulting.

Edward Veale Lead Consultant and Managing [email protected]

Responsible for and Project Managed over 500 projects for a variety of clients, Edward is the author of many technical papers covering advancing acoustics, testing and construction.

Eloise Randell [email protected]

Director providing creative support for blue chip companies, international artists, education and heritage organisations. Detailing aesthetic finish-es, corporate branding and visual design.

Barbara Stange Concept and Interior [email protected]

Creative and technically skilled Interior Design professional with invaluable commercial experience. Knowledgeable in all stages of the design process, trans-lating project briefs into concrete design concepts.

MEET THETEAM_With years of experience working in many disciplines. These are the people who have worked in this task.

Observations Current work practices, structure of the business and processes

Client Brief Strategic context

Proposals developmentFloorplans, elevations and illustrations

Stakeholders Interviews and perspectives of the stakeholders to take in consideration

Delivery Project management for final delivery on time, in full, to budget

VA CONSULTANCY: TECHNOLOGY DESIGNEFFICIENCY.

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Chapter 1 : CONCEPT

1.1 Brief 1.2 Observations1.3 References

Chapter 2 : PROPOSALS

2.1 Proposals development

Chapter 3 : DELIVERY

3.1 Project management 3.2 Project delivery 3.3 Before and after

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After some years of use, the St.Marys Road existing entrance hall of the University of West London was in urgent need of refurbishment. However, due to the limited budget it was clear that very little change could be made to the building. Therefore the adaptation – whether related to the required rooms or energy efficiency – had to be achieved through means of technical and aesthetic renovation of the existing spaces and surfaces.The lighting fixtures are behind the operators with their bodies casting shadows and restricting light onto the desk, the lighting level is very low - 150lux and should be around 300lux, the contrast between the front counter lighting and operators is to great emphasising the shadows in which the operators work. The plans to remove the bright lighting from the desk front will have some benefit but the nature of the exiting lighting will still leave the area looking dark. It is urged that the consideration be given to improving the quality of lighting in the operator’s area - In addition, the general lighting is poor and adds to the general poor impression of the reception area. The floor has a relatively low reflectivity so much of the light is wasted and exacerbates the under-lighted effect of the area. Huge improvement could be made by replacing the existing fixtures for appropriate LED fittings. The emphasis to encourage more dialogue with the public realm led to the decision to totally change the facades of the entrance hall reception counter, as well as the current lighting scheme, and to incorporate the new facade, LED fittings and a new sign of the University in them. These new items allow “large-format” glimpses into the building and anchor the latter in its surroundings. The consistent surface treatment of all of the facade’s opaque components has a calming effect on the heterogeneous building massing. The original counter facade received a new outer skin: the building has been equipped with a ventilated cavity facade, including insulation, covered in laser cut wooden cladding with LED strips.S

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Entrance hall refurbishment

OBSERVATIONS Building the future


At present there are different light colour lamps (possibly types of bulbs), some out and most quite ineffective. The lighting fixtures are behind the operators with their bodies casting shadows and restricting light onto the desk.

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Security - whist viewing the reception desk, security asked if it would be possible to insert a bar type flap and door into the DDA section of the counter.

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REFERENCESBuilding the future


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Following the newly refurbished restaurant which provides excellent industry standards for teaching and learning for those students who are studying for positions in the International hospitality industry. The plans had been: Removing the bright lighting from the desk front to have some benefit with the nature of the exiting lighting where this will still leave the area looking dark so the suggestion is to improve the quality of existing lighting specially in the operator’s area a lighting scheme was provided for these purposes.

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PROPOSALS DEVELOPMENT

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT

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Entrance Hall, Ealing Campus London, UKUniversity of West London

WORKING CLOSELY WITH SUBCONTRACTORSQuality control and distribution

Project management, a key function to support the team and assure strategic delivery coupled with performance monitoring and quality management. It is Veale Associates policy to retain in house the skill set required to deliver projects that we engage upon. Those responsible for each sector of the project will be direct employees. We do reserve the right to engage specialists from the academic, commercial and professional sectors where advance knowledge is required or would have positive benefit for the project. The need for such knowledge will be evaluated as the project progresses and advised to the design team.


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DETAILING SPECIFICATIONSDiffering formats different results

Projects for the professional media and music industries have pioneered many designs and set many standards. VA bring this knowledge, practice and experience to the education sector and promote future proofing and industry standards with facilities that are optimised for student learning.The resourcing schedule was developed to support the agreed plans of the project team, organised and planned so information is prepared and available in good time to support the team’s work in response to any package or packages awarded to us.Reviewing the project time line, we are confident we met and overcame successfully the challenges of this project.



PROJECT DELIVERY

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FILLING EXPECTATIONSmake the best choices for the student’s Campus

The refurbishment project will hold the on-going constant operational activities that the building has experienced over the years. The University is investing in St. Marys Road Hall to repair the building issues, upgrade service installations and improve the accessibility. The project will create additional public and support spaces, to enable the building to deliver its core functions more effectively and to allow it to be used more frequently.

The refurbishment is a combination of meticulous restoration and sympathetic new build. The Ealing Campus is also being landscaped as part of the works to provide a more welcoming and accessible space with a new entrance into St. Marys Road Hall.


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IMPROVING THE WORKSPACEQuality control and distribution

Those core services we provided for this project include an Interior design consultancy, contributing to the development of the brief by in-depth study of the industries future and ideas on the horizon, concept design, room treatments, space planning, workflow and movement – identity and aesthetics, acoustic finishes, product testing, custom furniture and components –



BEFORE AND AFTER

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Veale AssociatesCreative Acoustics

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