Refreshing Halifax town centre as a destination
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Revitalising the high street, we acted as MEP consultant for the £32m mixed-use redevelopment of Broad Street Plaza in Halifax, Yorkshire.
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Developed in collaboration with Calderdale Council, Broad Street Plaza has helped to revitalise Halifax town centre. It's one of the biggest mixed-use leisure schemes completed in northern England in the first two decades of the 21st century.
The 2,600 sq. m development includes a nine-screen Vue cinema, a 100-bed Premier Inn, Pure Gym, a 429-space multi-storey car park let to APCOA, a range of restaurants, office space for Calderdale Borough Council and an NHS drop-in centre.
On this complex site, we acted as MEP consultants for the whole development and BREEAM assessor for the NHS unit, alongside architectural practice, The Harris Partnership.
Our work included:
- Services strategy for all units
- Liaison with prospective and confirmed tenants to incorporate their MEP requirements
- Determining loads for site-wide gas, water and power infrastructure, and negotiations with utility companies
- A site-wide energy strategy to satisfy the local authority’s renewable energy conditions
- Production of a performance specification and design intent drawings for the MEP Employer’s Requirements
- Review and agreement of the contractor’s detailed design proposals
- Construction stage MEP project monitoring
- Witnessing, snagging and de-snagging
- Design stage and as-built stage SBEM calculations and production of EPCs upon completion