Colston Hall New Foyer Development
Colston Hall’s new foyer development has transformed Bristol’s popular music venue.
This vital and exciting new space provides new performance areas, cafe, rehearsal rooms, education facilitiies and improved disabled access.
The stylish glass-fronted foyer building, finished with a striking recycled copper cladding, provides a new architectural landmark for the city facing onto The Centre. Designed by architects Levitt Bernstein Associates, it features a spacious atrium crossed at upper floor levels by a series of bridges, seamlessly linking the new foyer with the existing main auditorium and other part of the historic hall building.
MJN Colston were responsible for the co-ordination and installation of Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health Services from the incoming supplies. The services design incorporates the clients brief which calls for the new development to be an exemplar of sustainable design with particular reference to renewable energy sources and energy efficiency.
Specific works include the installation of a roof mounted Wind Turbine which supplies electricity back into the buildings distribution system and Solar Collectors provide heating energy to the Domestic Hot Water System. General illumination is provided utilizing energy efficient lamp types connected to an Automatic Lighting Control System to reduce the energy usage. The buildings emergency lighting is supplied from a central UPS to minimize the number of lead acid battery cells required against self contained units.Visual panels are to be installed front of house to display and monitor the power consumption of the Foyer, these values are recorded on the BMS system.
Project Team
- Client - Bristol City Council
- Main Contractor - Willmott Dixon Construction
- Architect - Levitt Bernstein
- Services Engineers - Arup Partners
- Quantity Surveyors - Davis Langdon
- Services value - £2.6m
