Royal Mint Court
Location
London, United Kingdom
Client
Delancey
Architect
Sheppard Robson
This development comprised the re-modelling and refurbishment of the historic 5.2-acre Royal Mint Court site into a five-building campus, providing 55,740m2 of modern, flexible office accommodation with significant public realm and retail facilities. The proximity to the Tower of London and the historic ruins of the Cistercian abbey presented numerous engineering challenges.
To accommodate the required height limits of the new development, we established a co-ordinated servicing strategy to ensure the complex M&E services could be routed through the building. This maximised both the lettable area and floor-to-ceiling heights. The central plant was located within an existing 1980s basement, so we prepared a detailed 3D model of the basement plant area to make sure all plant could be accommodated with the necessary access for installation and future maintenance.
This was a very challenging scheme to fit a fully serviced modern office building in between the London sight line height constraints and historic remains in the basement. The team included experts from across our specialist consultancy teams and other design team members.
