The new, £35 million Sammy Ofer Wing will transform the Grade l listed Museum, by creating a unique visitor experience and providing world class maritime research facilities.
As client representative, we advised the Museum on their overall project strategy, but we have also been appointed as project manager for the construction phase of the project.
New accessible archive storage linked to world class research facilities and interactive galleries will allow the Museum to promote its collections to all interest groups. A new South entrance from Greenwich Park, incorporating a temporary exhibitions area, shop and cafeteria will attract more of the existing visitors to Greenwich, to the site, enhancing their overall experience.
As project managers, our team is now delivering the entire construction and fit-out of the project, together with advising on the reuse of parts of the building that will be freed-up as a result of the work. In particular, we organised the strategy to secure all of the statutory permissions and managed the delivery of these with no objections to the formal submissions – an almost unique experience for a major contemporary building in a sensitive heritage context.
The construction and fit-out strategy has been driven by the need to complete and re-open by the Olympics and is on track to complete on time.
