2010 Winner of Association of Interior Specialists
Gold Award

Category: Ceilings – Large Contracts £100,000 and over
Project: Ropemaker Place, London EC2
Value: £900,000 approx.
Architect: ARUP Associates
Completed: July 2009

Scope of works: Ropemaker is set to become one of the city of London’s most attractive yet sustainable commercial buildings. The building, designed to achieve an ‘Excellent’ BREEAM rating, has already won the main contractor a Silver Considerate Contractors award.

Stortford Interiors were appointed to design, supply and install specialist suspended ceilings, featuring Gull wing and bespoke wave ceilings to the Reception, Atrium, main reception area, lift lobbies and main external canopy. They brought together SAS International and Zumtobel to provide a complete one stop solution to successfully meet the client’s design brief. This is a project Stortford Interiors are particularly proud of. 

2008 Winner of Association of Interior Specialists
Silver Award

Category: Partitioning – Large Contracts £100,000 and over
Project: The Thomas Deacon Academy, Peterborough
Value: £1.2m
Architect: Foster & Partners
Completed: July 2007
Scope of work: partitions, glazed screens, doors and frames

The performance requirements for this project included for the glazed screens to meet the Academy criteria of withstanding a crowd pressure point loading of 1.5kN, 30 minute fire rated double glazed screens, and meet an acoustic performance of 42db.

Stortford Interiors worked closely with Laing O’Rourke and Foster & Partners to provide a performance solution to the design requirements of this prestigious project. They supplied and installed floor to slab Komfort Polar Double Glazed/PolarTec partitioning systems together with curved feature areas. The installation also included the supply of doors and over panels, as well as integrated fire rated glazed doors to the glazed screens.

Judges' comments: "Another outstanding entry of high performance glazed partitioning, only a whisker away from being the Gold award winner".

2007 Winner of Association of Interior Specialists
Gold Award

Category: Ceilings – Large Contracts £100,000 and over
Project: Hammerson plc, London W1
Value: £400,000
Architect: Stiff & Trevillion
Completed: May 2006

Scope of work: Metal stud partitions, dry lining, fibrous plaster features and metal ceilings were installed (using British Gypsum partitions, Casoline plasterboard ceilings, SAS 130 metal ceilings and Simplicity fibrous plaster/GRG ceilings).

An extremely fast-track project comprising a wealth of architecturally complex details in an installation over four floors comprising offices, IT training suites, a Boardroom, restaurants and kitchen. What must be one of the most impressive Receptions in the West End of London contains a mass of fibrous plaster features adjacent to a three-storey atrium with additional troughs and lighting at soffit level.

2005 Winner of Association of Interior Specialists Contractors Award Highly commended

Category: Partitioning
Project: Osborne Clarke, London EC2
Value: £350,000
Architect: The Harmsen Group
Completed: May 2005
Scope of work: Metal and plasterboard ceilings, drywall partitions, glazed partitions, joinery

Another award winning project demanding a plethora of distinctive architectural detail from Stortford’s. Angled sloping dry-walls around the central core of the building and reception area form meeting rooms complemented by glazed partitioning. M/F and metal ceiling expanses are broken up by curves, bulkheads and upstands to add visual interest and to signify different areas for different office functions and activities. Further flexibility is facilitated by curved glazing and curved solid walls. Joinery and Doorsets completed Stortford’s scope of works.

2004 Winner of Association of Interior Specialists
Gold Award

Category: Ceilings and Value Bank over £100K
Project: Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hamilton, City Place House, London

The judges quoted "The extensive well-finished MF ceilings were well designed and installed to a high standard. There was meticulous attention to setting out and detail throughout - particularly in the fine presentation area, where the ceiling is not only an odd shape but is raking, stepped and curved". The judges were particularly impressed with the perfectly constructed circular layered plasterboard feature ceiling, which they felt created a most pleasant ambiance in the reception area.

2004 BCO "Best of the Best"

Awarded to Wates Interiors for delivery of the Price Waterhouse Coopers project, whose new office space in Birmingham was named the most dynamic work environment in the UK. Stortford Interiors were closely associated with Wates Interiors on this project. The scope of work carried out by Stortford Interiors included partitions, ceilings, joinery and glasswalls.

Client: Price Waterhouse Coopers, Birmingham