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Troy Wharf Office, Rickmansworth Hertfordshire

Troy Wharf, Rickmansworth Office Building, Hertfordshire Commercial Real Estate Project, UK Architecture Development, Images

Troy Wharf Office in Hertfordshire

22 Sep 2021

Design: Mark Fairhurst Architects

Location: Hertfordshire, England, UK

Troy Wharf

The purpose built high quality Troy Wharf office building for the Marble and Granite Centre is located on an industrial site set within the green belt near Rickmansworth. The four storey building is partially submerged into the landscape on three sides within a disused concrete retaining wall. The new building projects above the ground disguising itself to the lake with a south facing mono pitch green roof, creating a fully structural glazed facade overlooking the site. The building utlises many sustainable features including a ground source heat pump for heating and cooling and ventilation heat recovery system throughout.

What was the brief? The brief for the building was to provide sustainable high quality office accommodation for the Marble and Granite Centre a leading importer and distributor of natural stones in the UK.

What are the sustainability features? The building incorporates the following sustainable features: 1. The building is heated and cooled via a geothermal heating system. Three 100 meter bore holes in front of the building provide warm water to a heat pump which in turn supply a fully integrated underfloor heating system and ceiling mounted fan coils. 2. Ventilation to the building is managed by an air supply and extract fan with heat exchanger to minimise heat loss. 3. The building incorporates a south facing sedum green roof, which helps to retain surface rain water and increases biodiversity on site. 4. The building reuses an existing insitu concrete retaining wall there by maintaining the embodied carbon on site and minimising the structure for the new building.

What building methods were used? Building methods included: – 1. The building is supported on a new concrete raft foundation supporting a steel structural frame. 2. The new composite floor slabs providing lateral stability to the existing walls. A drained cavity tanking system was designed to deal with the high water table and large area of retaining walls. 3. Internally the unobstructed office areas on each floor are maximised by the positioning of the lift, stair and services at the rear of the plan. The basement provides storage and changing areas along with plant and utility space. 4. The use of natural stone to the floor, stair and work surfaces complements the internal glazed partitions maintaining a light and airy feel to the interiors.

How is the project unique? The project is unique in the following areas: – 1. The four storey building is partially submerged into the landscape on three sides within a disused concrete retaining wall. 2. The new building projects above the ground disguising itself to the lake with a south facing mono pitch green roof, creating a fully structural glazed façade overlooking the site. 3. The building is located within a protected Green Belt area therefore the design had to demonstrate no adverse impact on this sensitive environment. 4. The integration of energy saving features ensured the building is an exemplar in sustainable design.

What were the key challenges? 1. Designing an office building within the Green Belt, where new developments are usually restricted. 2. Reusing the existing concrete retaining walls which related to a previous industrial use. 3. Designing a new office building without detracting from the marble and granite slabs stored and displayed on site.

What were the solutions? The design solutions to the key challenges are: – 1. Locating the majority of the building underground, and providing a mono-pitch green roof that disguises the structure when viewed from the lake. 2. The existing insitu concrete walls were laser scanned to establish its exact profile allowing new steel frame to be tailors to fit the existing opening. A darrained cavity waterproof system was installed to allow for an moisture ingress through the existing structure. 3. Conceiving a minimal façade appearance of a single plane of frameless glass that helps mirror the surrounding countryside whilst subtly referencing the monolithic nature of the stone slabs.

Who are the clients and what’s interesting about them? The client on this project is The Marble and Granite Centre. The company is long established and one of the leading supply of natural high quality stone products in the United Kingdom.

Troy Wharf in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire – Building Information

Architects: Mark Fairhurst Architects

Project size: 434 sqm Site size: 3960 sqm Project Budget: £1200000 Completion date: 2016 Building levels: 4

Structural Engineers: Elliott Wood Partnership Quantity Surveyers: Roger D Moore WSP Risk Management Services: WSP Group Contractor: Michael Brady Ltd Planning Consultants: Gregory Gray Associates Planning Supervisor: NHBC Green Roof Sub-Contractors: GRM Roofing Ltd. Aluminium Curtain Walling Sub-Contractors: Mid-City Facades Structural Steel Installers: Elite Metalcraft Ltd. Mechanical Installations: GRC Hall Asbestos Removal: Silverdell (UK) Limited Tanking Sub-Contractor: Renlon

Key products used: Aluminum Curtain Walling Manufacturer – Schuco International KG Green Roof Manufacturers – Bauder Limited Internal Glass Partitions – Planet Partitioning Fire Protection – Demon Fire Protection Rubber Flooring – Nora Flooring Systems UK Ltd. Carpet – Interface GRG Columns – Ribbon & Reed (London) Ltd. Stone Cladding, Internal & External Paving, Internal Work Tops – The Marble & Granite Centre Kitchens – Commodore Kitchens Joinery & Doors – Doorware Ltd. Staircase & Balustrades – Archetype Metal Work Air Supply & Extract System – Allergy Plus Ltd. Mansafe System – Lloyds British Steel Cladding – Vespa Double Glazing Electrical Installations – Jarrards Limited Ironmongery – SDS Door Entry System – Allgood Geothermal Heating Suppliers – Nutherm Geothermal Heating Installers – Total Concept Solutions Waterproof Tanking – John Newton & Co. Platform Lift – Quality Access Lifts Security System – Croxley Alarm Systems Sanitary Wear – Amitage Venesta Acoustic Table Screens – Sound Service (Oxford) Ltd. Internal Plasterboard, Partitions, Fire Protection, Suspended Ceilings – British Gypsum External Timber Cladding – Arnold Laver Timberworld

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A Celtic fan admitted invading the pitch and assaulting a Paris Saint-Germain player during Celtic’s 5-0 defeat in the Champions League at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Wednesday afternoon. John Hatton, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, jumped over a metal railing and ran on to the pitch at Celtic Park on Tuesday night and assaulted PSG forward Kylian Mbappe by attempting to kick him. The 21-year-old was booed by fellow Celtic fans as he was removed from the field by stewards following the incident which happened in the 40th minute after PSG’s Edinson Cavani scored PSG’s third goal. As he was led away he was punched by fellow fan Anthony Lavelle, who admitted hitting Hatton on the head. READ MORE: Celtic’s UEFA charge sheet - £237k paid in fines in 10 years Tesco worker Hatton, who appeared wearing a Celtic tracksuit, wept in court where he also pleaded guilty to behaviour likely to incite public disorder by approaching Mbappe. He has been banned from every football ground in the UK by Sheriff Sukwinder Gill who told him: “I don’t know much about football. But this was a high profile match. It was a Champions League match. It was televised across the UK.” Defence lawyer Dan Cameron said: “The incident wasn’t viewed on television screens. It was 40 minutes into the match. He was taken by security stewards almost immediately from the pitch. The match wasn’t disrupted for any great length of time. He had consumed a lot of alcohol and can only remember parts of the day.”

Hatton was granted bail and sentence was deferred on him until 11 October for background reports. Lavelle admitted punching Hatton on the head as he was being led from the stadium by police. Depute fiscal Louise McNeil said: “Mr Lavelle was a spectator and after seeing John Hatton invading the pitch he became upset and angry. While the police were escorting Mr Hatton from the stadium he punched him on the head. Mr Lavelle was then arrested.” Defence lawyer Ann McKinlay said: “His last conviction was 42 years ago when he was 19.

“Mr Lavelle was far from the only person who was angry about the pitch invasion. The consequences for the club could be very serious. UEFA could make them play their matches behind closed doors. “Mr Lavelle said that as Mr Hatton was being taken out of the ground he was laughing and he struck out and hit him on the head. “I am told that Mr Hatton is very sorry that Mr Lavelle got into trouble because of him.” Sheriff Gill said: “Was it a case that Mr Lavelle managed to get to him first,” and Ms McKinlay replied: “I don’t know about that but he accepts he managed to get to him.” The court was told that Lavelle, an asbestos remover, who now lives in St Albans, England, has been a Celtic supporter since he was 13 and takes his nephew who suffers from epilepsy to matches.

Sheriff Gill fined Lavelle £400 and gave him two months to pay it. She refused a Crown motion to impose a football banning order on him. Sheriff Gill told Lavelle: “You have been going to football matches for 48 years with no trouble and you take your nephew to matches. “If Celtic Football Club wish to revoke your season ticket that’s a matter for them, but, I would hope they would see sense.” Celtic have been charged by UEFA following the pitch invasion on Tuesday night. The latest charge against Celtic comes after the club were fined £20,000 for illicit banners and blocking a stairway during their qualifying win against Linfield. It’s not the first time a fan has entered the field of play during a European match at Parkhead. AC Milan keeper Dida was slapped by a supporter in the 2-1 victory over the Italian giants in 2007.

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