Leading developer of partitioning systems, Optima, supplied a comprehensive range of products for the £10 million refurbishment of Kings House and Conquest House in Kingston-Upon-Thames – helping to create stunning new office facilities for Saipem, one of the world’s leading contractors in the oil and gas industry.
With its leases due to expire within 12 months, the building owners put in place plans to refurbish the ageing property to provide 90,000 sq ft of Grade A offices, with ancillary retail space on the ground floor and a new glazed monumental entrance.
Working with John Robertson Architects, quantity surveyor Drivers Jonas Deloitte and main contractor Overbury Plc, Optima created a series of meeting rooms across the Ground, 1st, 2nd, 3rd floors, using its Revolution 54 single glazing with single glazed doors on Quad pivots. For areas where acoustics were a greater concern, including private meeting rooms, double glazed Revolution 54 screens with flush double glazed doors were installed.
All doors were set into Microflush aluminium door frames. Featuring very little visible ironmongery, the sleek design perfectly complemented the virtually frameless Optima partitioning systems, helping to create the striking modern aesthetic in keeping with the overall design of both the exterior and interior.
Optima also incorporated a capping in the door frames to house the cabling for room booking systems. The company completed the installation of Kinetic Align framed sliding glass doors to create ‘lounge rooms’ and ‘booths’ across the floors.
Kerri Cooke, Project Director at John Robertson Architects said: “Optima brought their considerable office glazed partitioning experience to the Saipem project and added significant value in the specification, design development and installation phases of the project, assisting the design team to overcome the particular complexities and challenges of the existing building (tolerances, junctions, mansard roofs) whilst achieving the sleek, engineered aesthetic preferred by the client.
“JRA found the process of working with Optima to be smooth and rewarding, and we were delighted with the final quality of product and installation.”