Author: CHB

A team led by Hugh Broughton Architects has won a two-stage OJEU tender to restore and transform Sheerness Dockyard Church, in the Sheerness Dockyard Conservation Area on the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent. The commissioning client is Sheerness Dockyard Preservation Trust, and the construction value is approximately £4.1 million. The practice won the commission based on an outline approach to the restoration of the building and surrounding site. The competition drew 58 expressions of interest. Alongside Hugh Broughton Architects, the shortlisted practices were Dow Jones Architects, Julian Harrap Architects, Purcell and Shepheard Epstein Hunter. Hugh Broughton Architects’ team...

Liverpool-based construction and fit-out firm, Aztec, has secured a trio of ecclesiastical projects in Merseyside with a combined value of more than £1million. Aztec has been appointed to complete the refurbishment of the Grade II listed St Nicholas Church in central Liverpool; a place of worship since 1247, it requires a sensitive approach and specialist knowledge. In the grounds of the Anglican Cathedral, Aztec is building an extension to St Aidan’s House, providing additional conference and meeting room space for teaching and training. A challenging project, the two-floor extension requires a considered approach, sympathetic to its surroundings and in...