Project overview

The People Performance Centre is a state-of-the-art fitness centre designed to enhance the wellbeing of employees at Mercedes-AMG’s High-Performance Powertrain facility in Brixworth. Located next to the Hybrid Technology Centre in the heart of the campus, the steel-framed building contains a gymnasium, fitness studio, showers and changing rooms.

Project value
£2,500,000
Project value
Architects
DKA
Architects
Employees benefited
000,000
Employees benefited

Attracting and retaining the best staff in a highly competitive industry is crucial to this client’s continued success. Therefore, the client expressed desire to construct a new fitness centre at Mercedes-AMG’s High-Performance Powertrain facility in Brixworth to enhance staff welfare.

Located next to the Hybrid Technology Centre in the heart of the campus, the steel-framed building boasts a split-level floor slab and contains a gymnasium, fitness studio, showers and changing rooms. As a result of the site constraints, the design sought to create a submerged building with a curved green roof such that the building looked like a landscaped mound when viewed from outside the site boundary. Aside from the inclusion of curtain walling to the main façade to reflect adjacent buildings and bring light into the facility, the state-of-the-art building blends into the landscape thanks to natural stone retaining walls and a full ‘living wall’ on the front elevation.

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Project team

Francis Shiner

Francis Shiner

Chairman

Since joining the company in 1983, Francis has assumed various roles, from Chief Surveyor to managing Director, ultimately assuming the position of Chairman in 2021.

Dan Changer

Dan Changer

Director

Dan studied Architecture at the University of Cambridge and worked as a chartered Architect before joining SDC in 2010. Joining as a Design Coordinator, Dan then opted to work as a Contracts Manager, receiving a promotion to Project Manager before his appointment to the Board of Directors in 2020. His duties and responsibilities include setting the overall strategy for the project, as well as leading the project team and ensuring the scheme is delivered within the client’s time, quality and budget constraints. Dan’s client-focused attitude and collaborative problem-solving approach will be crucial to the scheme’s successful delivery.

Jonathan Richardson

Jonathan Richardson

Director

Jonathan has extensive knowledge and experience of building services design, installations and management thereof. As a qualified Building Services Engineer, Jonathan spent his earlier career working for a major MEP sub-contractor. His diverse range of project experience means he has proven to be a great addition to the SDC team, and this has led to his recent promotion to M&E Director. He oversees a team of electrical and mechanical project managers, estimators, quantity surveyors, commissioning and MEP design managers.

Andrew Mitchell

Andrew Mitchell

Director

Andrew is a senior member of staff who holds the role of Director/Company Secretary. He joined SDC in 1994, and had therefore been with the company for almost thirty years. He plays a key role in ensuring that board procedures are both followed and regularly reviewed. The Chairman and Board Directors will look to the Company Secretary for guidance as to what their responsibilities are under the rules and regulations to which they are subject, and on how these responsibilities should be discharged.