A small selection of projects awarded to RBC in November and December 2020

Our Building Control role in this project is to appraise and approve all the ancillary and main buildings within the site, but excluding the main reactor buildings which are exempt and under the control of the Office of Nuclear Regulator.

Due to the restrictions on both audience numbers and theatre openings the proposal is to form a break-through between two adjoining theatres. These are the Gielgud and Sondheim (previously the Queen’s) Theatres which are both part of the Delfont Mackintosh Theatre group. 

We have been appointed to provide Building Control services for a new two storey timber framed building that is intended for timber research, the intention is that it will not be open to members of the public but mainly will consist of laboratories and offices.

This is a new large single storey timber framed building to form a family restaurant for the use of visitors to Kew Gardens, this building will be located in another part of the Kew Gardens area and will also require conveyance to the site in a golf buggy type vehicle. 

A small selection of projects awarded to RBC in September and October 2020

A small selection of projects awarded to RBC January to June 2020

A small selection of projects awarded to RBC in November and December 2019

A small selection of projects awarded to RBC in September and October 2019

The aftermath of the fire at the Grenfell Tower has affected how Under-Writers for PI Insurance look at the potential risks. This is currently making them look at anyone connected with fire safety with very suspicious eyes, tainted with little enthusiasm to provide PI cover.

Design and Build Contractor - MTX

RBC have worked on numerous projects with modular healthcare specialist MTX, throughout England and Wales, to create fast delivery ward space, clinical department extensions and additional operating theatres.  The above project provided a new endoscopy unit and twin operating theatres for the hospital and was completed on site in under four months.

RBC have been appointed by John Simpson Architects to provide full Building Control services for the prestigious commission to redesign the Royal College of Music in South Kensington.  The project is valued at £25 million and will transform the Grade II Listed Building.  The project involves basement, sub-basement, lower ground, first and second floor extensions in a former courtyard that links part of the Royal College of Music together and form a new museum, bar, cafes, two new theatres and practice rooms.  The effects on the existing fire compartmentation and means of escape needed careful consideration and justification and RBC have worked closely with the Architects, JSA, and the Fire Engineer to achieve this.

Regional Building Control (RBC) have been appointed as the Approved Inspectors for the recladding of Northumberland House in Sutton, this project is actually labelled as ‘cladding rectification works’.