Case Study
Archer Building, Nottingham
Archer Building, Nottingham h s p consulting t - 0870 600 60 90 f - 0870 600 60 91 www.hspconsulting.com Lawrence House, Meadowbank Way, Nottingham NG16 3SB Project Value: £18m Total Client: Thomas Fish and Sons Contractor: Thomas Fish and Sons Architect: Franklin Ellis Architects The Project: A two phase project to redevelop Nottingham’s former telephone exchange building located in a city centre site. The site is surrounded on all four boundaries by main road (Huntingdon St), a post office depot, and Sneinton market. The first phase of the scheme was to vertically extend the main building by adding three further storeys on top of the existing 5-storey building. Overall vertical loadings on the foundations were not an issue as the original building had been designed fo