Richmond House was conceived as a classic piece of urban infill. Located in the centre of a developing street of side-by-side lots, this office building was designed around a phased development of two adjacent lots for a triumvirate of clients who needed the building for a mixture of owner occupation and speculative rental.
The building, in each phase, had to be of a high quality finish, with building services and structure arranged to give maximum flexibility of use and a minimum of inconvenient downtime during changes. The usual team of consultant engineers were used to provide the work that included raised access floors for easy data and power distibution and rapid rental changes. The building has been a compatible host to many companies, however one of the original owners, Conyers Dill and Pearman, now occupy a large portion of the building
A prefabricated street elevation of reconstituted stone faced, glass fibre reinforced concrete panels was chosen to facilitate consistency of finish and ease of connection when Phase II was joined to Phase I. This concept was chosen due to an ability to produce a repeat order of the cladding panels. This did not work two well as as the original supplier went into bankruptcy in the three years that separated the construction of each phase. Butterworth’s staff supervised the colour selection process at the new manufacturer’s factory in Ireland so well that the panels, even in Bermuda's critical lighting conditions, were a perfect match with the older units. The engineered molds were reproduced from existing drawings
Phase I housed all stairways, washrooms, elevators, etc. for both phases on its northern side. Phase II merely duplicated the office space on the northern side of the join line, leaving the completed Richmond House with a central service core.
Butterworth's staff performed a full service for Richmond Holdings Ltd. from design concept, budget negotiations, documentation, bid procedure and construction contract administration.
On completion of the base building, the shell was subdivided for the various tenants and Design Limited again contributed to the concept, documentation and construction of many of the interior spaces for individual tenants.
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