Tenon Partitioning and its Vitrage range, supplied by CPD Distribution, have delivered a prestigious project for MG Barkers, interior design and build contractors, with a final result that is nothing short of stunning.
Darren Congdon, Interior Designer, MG Barkers, summarises the design brief:
“For the relocation of our new headquarters, the key thing for us was to ensure that the final scheme clearly demonstrated that MG practices what it preaches! “In some respects we became our own client and found ourselves working within the parameters of a clearly defined budget and fixed deadline whereby there was no room for manoeuvre. Whilstaesthetic considerations were key, ultimately the design needed to carefully balance style and substance to ensure delivery of a smart and functional work space.”
MG chose Tenon Vitrage to fully realise its design ambition and specialist commercial interiors supply partner, CPD Distribution, to deliver the new offices. MG offer a full solution service to clients and were able to draw on their own expertise and skills to deliver the fit out programme. Handled from the CPD Liverpool branch, MG was able to benefit from CPD’s logistical expertise thereby ‘just-in-time’ deliveries could be co-ordinated to ensure the installation process ran smoothly and efficiently to meet the prescribed deadline.
Results that speak for themselves
Suzanne Dooner, Director, MG Group, reflects:
“As a business, MG Group aims to fit seamlessly into any client’s operation to carry out projects with maximum speed and efficiency without compromising on quality. Becoming our own client put MG’s working processes under the microscope, as well as the working relationships we have with our carefully chosen service partners, specifically CPD."
Delicate balance of style and substance - Tenon Vitrage
Using a minimum of aluminium framing sections, Vitrage contributes to creating the feel of open space with unhindered vision across an office without compromising the privacy of individual offices. Available as a double or single glazed partition system, Vitrage combines function together with the clear aesthetic benefits of silicone glazing, and can be set out using a head and two part base channels that enables designers to create the optimum consecutive run of partitioning using a minimum amount of framework to give a frameless appearance and help create clean lines.
Against a backdrop of vibrant furniture and carpet fittings, MG specified single glazed Tenon Vitrage to ensure the space retained a sense of openness and light whilst also ensuring the integrity of the individual office spaces. The modern visual simplicity of the scheme was further enhanced across the two floors by using full height glass doors and vertical silicone joints to maximise the glazed area. Whilst the ground floor comprises a standard modular office layout, the client facing ‘working showroom’ is accommodated on a mezzanine along with two managers’ offices, a boardroom, meeting room, plus a breakout kitchen and archive storage, and realising the design of this area presented some of the more challenging aspects on the project.
On a practical level, careful consideration had to be given to where the frameless doors were located on the mezzanine so as to avoid the floor springs they were fitted with coming into contact with and compromising the structural steel frame on which it was constructed.
A bespoke approach
Solid demountable partitions, constructed using Tenon Dry Lined Wall system were integrated with glazed sections to create the boardroom directors offices and ancillary areas whilst also ensuring a seamless interface with the Vitrage. However, forming the central focus for the scheme is a bespoke ‘goldfish bowl’ style glass wall along the length of the break out area, delivery of which required the creation of a curved wall with radiused TV611 track a ‘Vitrage First’ for Tenon!
The curve on the aluminium frame was first preformed to a set radius, which created a template against which the glass could them be cut. Once completed the aluminium radius profile also provided MG’s fit out team with the dimensions for the solid partition wall, constructed using Tenon 77mm Dry Lined wall, with which the Vitrage section was then integrated.
Damian Hill, Business Development Manager, CPD considers the challenge:
“Close communication between MG, CPD and our glass manufacturers and installers of Vitrage, was key to ensuring the successful delivery of the curved wall. With a delivery deadline that left no room to manoeuvre, all the elements of the feature wall needed to be correct to the nearest millimetre to ensure that at the final fit-out stage everything came together.”
MG Group Interiors, incorporating MG Ceilings and Linings, MG Barkers and MG Linear, is one of the UK’s most respected interior design and build contractors working for a portfolio of high profile clients including Siemens, BAE Systems, and both Liverpool and Everton FC
