Kiln Yard Offices
A three-storey brick-faced office building, shell and core with Category A fit-out, on a former brickworks yard.
- Sector
- Commercial
- Place
- Trafford Park, Trafford
- Value
- £7m to £10m
- Completed
- Spring 2025
The brief, the hard part, the handover.
The developer wanted early cost certainty on a speculative office building. We were appointed first under a pre-construction services agreement, tested the stage 3 design against the cost plan and advised on cladding lead times before the second stage price was agreed.
The detail that mattered was the elevation: new brick matched to the coursing of the retained yard wall, with a movement joint placed where it would read as a rhythm rather than a seam. We built a sample panel on site and the design team signed it off before any bricklayer started the main elevation.
The building was handed over shell and core with Category A fit-out to the first floor plates, and the developer’s agent took the keys with the operation and maintenance manuals already in the cloud folder.
- Client
- A North West commercial developer
- Value
- £7m to £10m
- Programme
- 15 months
- Route
- Two-stage