Hotels

We enjoy the challenge creating a destination brings – often designing for three or four different uses in one building, having an impact broader than just its room occupants. It gets even more complex when we’re designing a retrofit or upgrade to an existing building – often in a live and constrained environment.

The level of design that hotels require benefits from a multidisciplinary approach – where tight corridor services runs can be coordinated in-house, transfer structure negotiated around loading bays and the building envelope optimised for thermal comfort and acoustic performance.

Our team has significant experience in all kinds of hotel design, including exposure to different operator’s requirements and interior design-led specifications. We understand that the hotel industry is unique, and needs a bespoke approach.

Coordinating building services under one roof is especially valuable for hotel buildings, where space is tight and developing an easily repeatable, efficient approach to servicing the rooms needs to be done early.

Every traveller wants a good night’s sleep – and the building facade needs to deliver this, alongside access to daylight and ventilation, where appropriate.

Hotel guests expect more – well-considered lighting design, balanced heating and cooling, and exceptional front-of-house facilities. Our awareness of these requirements mean we design with the end user in mind, understanding that a regular residential-style outcome won’t be good enough.

Hotels need regular upgrades to stay relevant and on-brand for their operators and guests. We take a practical approach to building upgrades, undertaking early due diligence of existing services and structure and limiting unnecessary works.

• Structural & Civil
• Section J reporting and JV3 Modelling
• Facade engineering
• Vertical Transportation
• Fire Sprinkler design
• Hydraulic services
• Internal coordination across multi-disciplines.
• BIM 360 across all disciplines

• Working collaboratively with builders in the D&C environment.
• Assessment of existing structures
• Remedial engineering & strengthening
• Assessment of existing buildings for code compliance (all services)
• Bespoke structural solutions based on existing building constraints
• Maintaining records (documentation) of pervious projects.
• Power demand assessments (in conjunction with ASP3)
• Lighting design (in conjunction with interior designers)