18 June 2021

Down the road from our Guildford office, ‘Founders Studio’ has been undergoing quite a transformation!

The building was constructed in the 1960’s as a dance studio, formerly owned by The School of Acting in Guildford.  Now it’s being developed by Emmaus Rd church to provide a community and worship space, in the heart of Guildford.

We were initially appointed as the consulting structural engineer to provide advice on the feasibility of proposals and visual inspections to establish the structural framing.  As the project developed, we then undertook detailed designs and construction advice through to completion in April 2021.

Unusually, the building was constructed in two phases, with the first phase retaining an existing building that part-occupied the site. We undertook record searches to confirm the building construction and to inform the structural advice we provided to the client on redevelopment options.

You can see from this image that the work is now complete and it is looking great!