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Cat B fit-out · 2024

Vanguard

Value £2M Location Manchester

Our largest project to date and the one we point people at. A full Cat B fit-out delivered floor by floor in a live, occupied building — every noisy trade sequenced around a working office, and a landlord who wanted the common parts handed back exactly as we found them.

The brief wasn't a standard office. Circular suspended lighting rings under perforated metal acoustic rafts. Herringbone oak. Walnut slat walls the full length of the floor. Bespoke banquette seating with integrated power and planting. A terrazzo lift lobby. None of it off a catalogue — all of it drawn, made and set out on site.

Project facts

  • Contract Cat B fit-out
  • Value £2,000,000
  • Status Complete

What we did

Scope of works.

  • Multi-floor Cat B fit-out
  • Feature lighting and perforated metal ceiling rafts
  • Herringbone oak and carpet tile flooring
  • Bespoke walnut slat wall panelling
  • Bespoke banquette seating with integrated power
  • Acoustic booths and meeting suite
  • Tea points and utility areas
  • Terrazzo lift lobby and glazed screens
  • Full mechanical and electrical

The challenge

What made it hard.

A live, occupied building. Deliveries, strip-out and every noisy trade sequenced around people trying to work — and the landlord's common parts handed back untouched. Most of the heavy work ran out of hours.

The outcome

How it finished.

Delivered on programme. Settled at the agreed final account.

Curved banquette and herringbone oak beneath a perforated metal ceiling raft
Curved banquette and herringbone oak beneath a perforated metal ceiling raft
Terrazzo lift lobby with framed glazed partitions
Terrazzo lift lobby with framed glazed partitions
Walnut slat booths with acoustic backs and integrated power
Walnut slat booths with acoustic backs and integrated power
Acoustic felt, walnut, and a worktop that takes a laptop and nothing else
Acoustic felt, walnut, and a worktop that takes a laptop and nothing else
Glazed double doors set flush into the walnut slat wall
Glazed double doors set flush into the walnut slat wall
Open plan with suspended linear lighting
Open plan with suspended linear lighting
Acoustic curtain and the meeting suite running the length of the floor
Acoustic curtain and the meeting suite running the length of the floor
Copy and utility area behind an arched opening
Copy and utility area behind an arched opening
The same floor, mid-programme
The same floor, mid-programme

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