Property improvement specialist, SEHBAC Commercial, brings experience and innovation to clients’ project and, through its position as part of the SEH Group of companies, can provide a complete construction package suited to any project.
The full scale and benefits of this co-operative and co-ordinated approach are being made apparent in an on-going project in Ipswich at the Claydon Court office complex, the transformation and modernisation of which is being managed by Real World Energy Solutions (RWES), part of SEHBAC Commercial Ltd.
Originally the barn and cart lodges of a dairy farm on the Old Ipswich Road, in Claydon, Claydon Court was developed into offices by a London auction house in the 1980s with little regard to energy efficiency. Original block walls along with plywood and minimal polystyrene insulation had been utilised to create office space that was externally clad with timber weather boarding.
Claydon Court’s current owner, Richard Parker, purchased the property in 1998 from an air conditioning company that had been based in the buildings and which had installed its units throughout. Richard explains: “The same air conditioning system remains in the property today but is now outdated, energy inefficient and overly expensive to operate and maintain and its replacement has been one of the main drivers for change.”
“The premises are home to several companies – a software developer, a charity and a recruitment consultancy as well as three companies that are part of the Strident group of companies. There are about forty people working here. Improvements have become a necessity; the building is too hot in warmer weather and under-insulated in colder periods, there is a clear requirement for improved efficiencies.”
