Our expertise Our approach Where we operate About us Our projects Careers Sustainability Media Investors 117.38p Contact us Aberdeen Music Hall Aberdeen Performing Arts (APA) < Back Restoring, renovating and extending this prestigious Grade A listed performing arts building, utilising building conservation techniques whilst internally upgrading the interiors and finishes to a high quality and installing new, modern building services and a/v equipment throughout. SECTOR: Leisure & Hospitality > Heritage, Arts & Culture > REGION: Scotland > The Challenge: Transforming a historic music hall in a way that preserved its history while meeting the needs of a 21st century audience. This multi-million-pound project required an ingenious re-imagining of the space that also restored and retained the building's historic fabric and its wonderful acoustics. Requirements included new a-look auditorium, a 100-seat performance space, more flexible staging, bars, new foyer area, improved rehearsal rooms, upgraded artist facilities, learning spaces, meeting rooms, offices, café, and 21st century futuristic ramps and lifts to improve access to all areas. The external facades needed to be retained while internally it needed to be fully modernised. The works also involved significant complex demolition and excavation works to facilitate the new spaces. The Solution: Historic buildings, unlike new ones, often have limited 'as-built' information, the drawings submitted by a contractor on completion of a building. And what does exist can be inaccurate. For this reason, numerous surveys and site investigations were carried out before any works began. This included excavated trial pits, which revealed that there were no traditional foundations to the building. The solution was to work collaboratively with the client’s consultants and Kier's in-house specialist temporary works designers, Kier Professional Services (KPS), which resulted in a detailed risk analysis and design solution to allow the external walls to be underpinned whilst significant basement excavation to facilitate the permanent works was undertaken. Similarly, there were no available as fitted / as built drawings for the existing building services. The M&E Manager carried out a test and identification process with the site team and derived their own set of as-builts. The Impact: Early engagement of key subcontractors through weekly workshops with key specialists, particularly M&E services and conservation craft experts, was essential to developing the programme and design methodology and keeping within time frames. The temporary works and underpinning solutions also allowed the project to be constructed safely and with no movement of the existing structure. 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They have not been rigid to contractual matters and work collaboratively to get the best and most cost-effective outcome. The Kier team has made an effort and understands the needs for good client relationships. There is a massive pride in the Kier team and a huge amount of effort. Health and safety is real and embedded in their psyche. " Jane Spiers Chief Executive Aberdeen Performing Arts View more projects Every project we deliver is an opportunity for us to bring our unique thinking to solve problems, innovate and collaborate with our clients and beyond. Our Projects > BUTLIN’S SPLASH, BOGNOR REGIS Building a £40m state of the art swimming pool and leisure complex within the existing Butlin’s resort in Bognor Regis, West Sussex. Leisure & Hospitality TRAGO MILLS Developing the first site outside Devon and Cornwall for Trago Mills, an independent, family owned and run discount leisure retailer. 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