Victoria House

Victoria House is located in the heart of the Knowledge Quarter in London, boasting a neo-classical façade with internal Art Deco features. It was designed and constructed in the 1920s for its former owner-occupier the Liverpool Victoria building society and served as its as head office until 1996. It offers close proximity to several world-renowned universities, hospitals and medical research centres including University College London, GSK and Great Ormond Street Hospital. The former building society headquarters has been converted into central London’s biggest “office to labs” dedicated life sciences hub – it has been turned into 220,000 sq ft of “wet lab enabled” life science space, and will serve as the new home of the BioIndustry Association (“BIA”), the trade association for UK life sciences.

The cutting edge development has customer wellbeing and sustainability at its core, with the project on track to achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’ certification. The existing M&E infrastructure has been upgraded, including installing energy-efficient LED lighting and heat recovery throughout the air conditioning system.

Scope of Works

The comprehensive Joinery fit-out package was awarded by Wates, with the scope including existing door removal, American Black Walnut Veneer Internal Doorsets & Ironmongery, Timber Skirtings, Bespoke ABW Veneered Kitchens & appliances, Banquette Seating, Engineered Timber Parquet Flooring, FF&E and Signage. Further, it enabled the Parkrose team to again demonstrate its in-house design co-ordination capabilities, provide unique architectural solutions and deliver a major Joinery scheme to peerless quality parameters.