SDESmith Design Engineering

Banking and financial services

High street banking framework, UK-wide

Client
A major UK high street bank, through a design and build contractor
Value
Various
Location
Nationwide
A four-storey classical stone bank on a street corner, ornately detailed with an arched entrance, carrying Barclays signage at ground floor level.

THE BRIEF

Ongoing electrical design services across a major UK high street banking framework, delivering refurbishment, maintenance and fit-out projects throughout the United Kingdom.

Projects range from minor alterations through to full branch refurbishments and relocations.

THE CHALLENGE

The work is carried out in live banking environments, and the framework demands rapid response times, close coordination with stakeholders and the ability to deliver practical solutions within demanding programmes.

A framework rewards consistency more than invention. The value is in a repeatable approach — the same design standards, the same drawing conventions, the same evidence pack — so that a branch in one town can be assessed against a branch in another and the client is not relearning the deliverable each time.

Most branches are also leasehold within a larger building, so the landlord's consent and the limits of the demise sit alongside statutory compliance as things to establish before design rather than during it.

OUR APPROACH

Power distribution, lighting, emergency lighting and fire alarm modifications, together with landlord liaison and statutory compliance.

DELIVERABLES

What we delivered

  • Power distribution design
  • Lighting and emergency lighting design
  • Fire alarm modifications
  • Landlord liaison
  • Statutory compliance

SERVICES

What this project involved

The services delivered here, described in full on their own pages.