Phased mechanical and public health delivery around live campuses, teaching timetables and occupied research estates — planned to keep institutions running.
Teaching continues, research runs around the clock, and university buildings can be listed, deep-plan or heavily serviced from decades of alteration. Mechanical and public health work has to fit that live estate.
All of this means that work on campus has added complexity. Riser routes pass through teaching space, plant sits above occupied rooms, and a shutdown that overruns can disrupt an exam. The package has to be planned around the academic calendar — not the other way round.
RMS phases packages by term, floor and riser, with noisy works, isolations and shutdowns agreed with estates teams before mobilisation.
One team carries the package from survey through design, installation and witnessed commissioning, so the phasing plan agreed with the estates team is the one delivered on site. Where continuity demands it, temporary services keep the estate running while permanent systems change over.
Works are sequenced around teaching, exams and the agreed programme windows.
Existing services and building fabric shape routes, plant locations and installation planning.
Isolations, shutdowns and hot works are agreed with the estates team before mobilisation.
Work in research estates is planned around the continuity requirements confirmed in the project brief.
Seven-storey campus change-of-use on the Aldwych, adjacent to the Royal Courts of Justice.
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