Colin May holds several records within the company, the most impressive being that he has worked at Stace the most years, longer than all of our Partners, including Richard Gough who follows close behind!

A gathering took place on his last day on Friday 28^th October, where all members of staff watched as Colin received his parting gifts – a bike and tickets to the Silverstone Grand Prix, presented to him by Richard Gough and founding Partner of Stace LLP, Leonard Stace.

As many of us still have many working years ahead of us, on behalf of the Partners and all your colleagues at Stace, thanks for being here and being a friend to many over the past 40 years.

Good luck and a long and happy retirement from all of us.

The brief from the Client, F&C Reit Asset Management, was to  create a building that met the highest spatial, environmental and architectural standards and to achieve a visual connection between the building interior and the external streetscape thus enhancing the workplace vitality.

The new office development consists of six upper floors and a basement constructed of a combination of steel frame and concrete flat slabs. The elevations include precast cladding, faced with Portland stone to the front and glazed white bricks to the rear. The upper floors have glazed façades and an accessible green roof terrace. Principle design features include adiabatic cooling, LG7 lighting, raised access floors, exposed flat soffits and bespoke public art railings.

Stace provided Cost Management and Employer’s Agent services.

Partner in charge – David Lawrie

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The charity has developed comprehensive services for life-limited children and their families and has done this through community outreach teams. The Board of Trustees has now embarked on a plan to raise money for a building to provide a permanent base for care with other centralised services to offer greater diversity to meet the needs of families. Construction is targeted to commence by mid 2012.

Stace has been appointed to provide cost management services and the proposed building will accommodate 6 children’s bedrooms, 2 special bereavement suites, accommodation for families, daycare and sitting areas, nursing and treatment facilities, administrative accommodation, meeting rooms and general ancillary accommodation. Externally cycle
storage is to be provided, parking for up to 26 cars and 2 minibuses, plus access for an ambulance, general deliveries and refuse and clinical waste collection.

The site will also accommodate a building for environmental groups who will operate under licence to deliver the management plan for the nature reserve on which the hospice site will be located. This will include an educational facility of approximately the same size as that is currently used, additional offices and ancillary accommodation and external storage for equipment used for maintaining the nature reserve. Additional facilities will be incorporated with the building for use for special events.

It is proposed that the building will achieve an “excellent” BREEAM rating and will be highly sustainable in terms of materials used and will produce low carbon emissions thus reflecting the natural woodland setting for the site.

Partner in charge: David Lawrie

Stace look forward to involvement in a second phase expansion project at HMP/Parc that has recently received full planning permission.

Marble Arch House is on the corner of Seymour Street and Edgware Road, located within Portman Village and a short walk from Oxford Street and Hyde Park. The existing site consists of two mixed use five storey buildings, 32-50 Edgware Road and 62-64 Seymour Street.

The new development, which has detailed planning consent, has been designed by Bennett’s Associates Architects and will deliver exceptional quality office, residential and retail space. The development has been designed to achieve a BREEAM excellent environmental rating.

The new building will comprise 60,000 sq ft of high quality office accommodation together with 15,000 sq ft of retail space. Adjacent to the new office building will be a development of ten luxury residential apartments with a 5,000 sq ft restaurant unit at ground level built behind the retained period Victorian facade of 62-64 Seymour Street.

Demolition and ground works are expected to start in mid-2011 with practical completion scheduled for mid-2013. Stace were originally appointed by The Portman Estate and have been Project Managers for the scheme since its inception in summer 2008.

City of Westminster College by schmidt hammer lassen architects has received a prestigious RIBA Award in London. With this award, The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) acknowledges that City of Westminster College is of high architectural standard and contributes considerably to its surroundings.

Today, Thursday 19 May 2011, this year’s winners were announced at a ceremony in London.

“schmidt hammer lassen architects’ new flagship campus for City of Westminster College is designed to embrace interaction and diversity and allow students to learn from each other, both formally and informally,” explains Partner, Kim Holst Jensen.

Partner at schmidt hammer lassen architects Morten Schmidt elaborates:
“We are proud to receive this honor. Because not only is the RIBA Award considered the world’s most thoroughly assessed architectural award; the award also demonstrates that the Scandinavian approach to architecture is valued in the rest of the world.”

City of Westminster College, won in a competition in 2006 and opened to students in January 2011, is the first completed building by schmidt hammer lassen architects in the UK, soon to be followed by The Learning Zone – Library and Learning Centre in Sheffield and the University of Aberdeen New Library in Scotland. Both will be completed in 2011.

Facts:

• Architect:  schmidt hammer lassen architects
• Client: City of Westminster College
• Area: 24,000m²
• Construction sum: £ 70 million excl. VAT (€ 81 million excl. VAT)
• Competition: 2006, 1st prize in restricted international competition
• Status: Construction period 2008 – 2010
• Engineer: Buro Happold, United Kingdom
• Landscape Architect: schmidt hammer lassen architects
•  Main Contractor: McLaren Construction Ltd
• Other Consultants: Knight Frank LLP, Stace LLP

The agreement entered into by LaSalle with the Royal Agricultural Society of England commits them to invest £20m by the end of 2012 and up to £50m by 2020. Around a dozen developments are already in the pipeline including new office buildings, refurbishing existing buildings, improving local highways and site access.

Stace Partner, Gareth Sinnamon commented,
‘Our experience in providing a high quality service on a variety of projects to LaSalle at their other Science Parks positions us well to understand their aspirations for the site to become the national hub for agricultural, equine and rural business, research and knowledge exchange.’

Working with the Academy who are committed to providing seamless and comprehensive support for deaf children the vision is to create a ‘one stop shop’ that is inspirational and geared around the needs and abilities of deaf students and their families.

The project, which we joined at RIBA stage B, involves the relocation of the school from its existing site, improvement of the existing play areas and sporting facilities, together with the construction of new residential accommodation, all of which provides outstanding facilities for deaf students in an appropriate and safe environment.

The Academy, which has been very well received by students, parents and alike, has been designed by the award winning education architects de Rijke Marsh Morgan. It is based on sustainability of design, construction and ongoing practice. Its innovative use of pretreated timber and proven innovative technologies creates an inspirational learning environment.

The project, which has a total development cost of £25 million, is now building up real momentum with a target start on site of Autumn 2012.