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Retail2024

St Ebbe's Retail Terrace

Cat A refurbishment of four trading units in Oxford

Cat A refurbishment of four trading units, sequenced two at a time so the terrace never went dark.

Refurbishment services
Completed brickwork and glazing on a finished building

Project facts

Client
Property investment company
Location
St Ebbe's, Oxford
Contract type
Traditional, JCT Minor Works
Contract value
£640,000
Units
4
Programme
30 weeks
Completed
May 2024

01 — The brief

Four units, and the terrace stays open

Cat A refurbishment of four adjoining retail units — shopfronts, services, floors and ceilings — on a terrace where two of the four were trading throughout and the other two were being marketed.

An empty terrace lets far worse than a busy one. Keeping the parade looking occupied was worth more to the client than finishing a month sooner.

02 — Delivery

Two dark, two trading, then swap

The units were taken two at a time, with hoarding designed as marketing boards rather than plywood, so the closed half advertised the parade while it was being worked on.

Deliveries came through the service yard before 9am. The shared roof void was firestopped as each pair was completed, rather than left as a single package at the end.

  • Two units worked, two trading
  • Hoarding doubled as marketing boards
  • Deliveries before 9am only
  • Roof void firestopped in phases
  • Shopfronts replaced like for like
  • No trading days lost

03 — The outcome

Three of four let within the year

FF Construction completed the £640,000 Cat A refurbishment of all four St Ebbe’s units in May 2024, across 30 weeks, with no trading days lost by the tenants who stayed.

Three of the four units were let within twelve months of completion. The client has since brought us two further parades.

Gallery

A parade that never looked shut

  • Completed brickwork and glazing on a finished building
    Hoarding designed to market the units it concealed.
  • Scaffolding and blockwork on a commercial site
    Cat A finish, ready for a tenant fit-out.
  • A steel frame going up on a new build site
    The completed terrace with all four shopfronts replaced.

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Empty units are expensive. Tell us which tenants have to keep trading and we will phase the work so the parade never looks shut.

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