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Cowley Works, Phase II

Second phase of a light industrial terrace in Cowley

Second phase of a light industrial terrace, built alongside phase one while the first units were trading.

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A steel frame going up on a new build site

Project facts

Client
Industrial estate landlord
Location
Cowley, Oxford
Contract type
Traditional, JCT Standard
Contract value
£2.4m
Units
3
Programme
46 weeks
Completed
August 2022

01 — The brief

Build phase two onto phase one

Three further light industrial units, structurally tied into a terrace we had completed two years earlier, whose first units were let and trading with their own deliveries and staff parking.

The party wall between phases had to be opened up to tie the frames together, on the far side of a wall a tenant was working against.

02 — Delivery

One yard, two occupiers, no shared gate

The yard was split with a permanent line rather than a moveable one, giving the trading units their loading bay and turning circle for the whole contract and the site a separate gate off the estate road.

Tie-in work at the party wall was done over two consecutive weekends agreed six weeks ahead, with the tenant’s racking sheeted and their staff briefed on the Friday.

  • Separate site gate off the estate road
  • Tenants kept their loading bay throughout
  • Party wall tie-in over two weekends
  • Racking sheeted and staff briefed
  • Frame matched to phase one
  • All three units let on completion

03 — The outcome

A terrace that reads as one build

FF Construction completed the £2.4m Cowley Works Phase II in August 2022, with all three units let on completion and no interruption to the phase one tenants.

The two phases share a roofline and a cladding specification, so the terrace reads as a single building. The landlord has since acquired the adjoining plot.

Gallery

Two phases, two years apart

  • A steel frame going up on a new build site
    The split yard: tenants left, site right.
  • Completed brickwork and glazing on a finished building
    Party wall tie-in, done over a weekend.
  • A brick commercial extension wrapped in scaffolding at dusk
    Phases one and two, sharing a roofline.

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