Barons Place
Client: Peabody Trust
Barons Place is a three-storey, experimental low-cost accommodation project in Southwark, London, for the NHS, Peabody Trust and Keep London Working. Our brief from the client was to take this experimental concept and deliver both a planning consent and a product that could provide new homes for key workers.
The challenges we faced were: developing the off-site modular constructed project that met the requirements of social housing residents, in this case key workers; meeting the planners’ aspirations; and also retaining the key element of being designed specially so that it could be dismantled and reassembled elsewhere. We also had a tight, six-month deadline to avoid losing SRB funding.
Working with Keep London Working, the SRB delivery team, Spaceover, the modular contractor, and Proctor and Mathews, the architects, we were able to: clarify the specification; resolve production problems; secure planning; and achieve a high-quality finish on budget.
The off-site, modular construction took 14 weeks to complete and the modules took just two days to be installed. The exterior cladding and other finishing work took a further ten weeks.
This development demonstrates that off-site, modular construction can produce high-quality residential accommodation quickly and cheaply.
image reproduced with kind permission from the Peabody Trust
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