The Beaumont Hotel is an independent 5-star hotel situated just off Grosvenor Square in the heart of Mayfair in London. The hotel is in a throwback to the 1920s and is located in a grand Art Deco building overlooking Brown Hart Gardens offering a perfect location for luxury shopping to its visitors. The hotel recently acquired and then renovated the adjacent site at 2 Providence Court to increase the number of guest rooms, add 2 new dining rooms and add new event spaces.
The architectural practice ReardonSmith Architects led the planning and design of the refurbishment with design works. ReardonSmith contacted Access Lifts in Summer 2021 to look at specifying a bespoke platform lift providing access across a split level on the ground floor within the new extension at 2 Providence Court.
The specification was unique with a number of challenges to overcome. 1) The lift would require a custom platform size to maximise the existing shaft constraints which was a pit meauring 1145mm wide x 1670mm long. 2) The existing concrete slab meant that only limited loadings were allowed through the floor therefore a side acting mechanism was preferred. 3) The lift would have to have bespoke finishes inside and out to match the interior design of the wider project. 4) The lift shaft featured an existing riser that would need to be interlocked with the lift to allow maintenance for other contractors.
Within the 1145mm x 1670mm pit we were able to produce a platform measuring 925mm x 1640mm with a side acting rack and pinion mechanism fixed into the shaft wall. Access Lifts worked with the main contractor DE Group Contracting and their chosen door supplier to create bespoke automatic swing landing full height doors for both landings. The landings also featured bespoke bronze and black push buttons. The platform itself was powder-coated in a bespoke site wide colour and the platform lift’s floor and pit was tiled to match the rest of the hotel’s flooring. The lift shaft was finished in site wide luxury wall paper and the riser was interlocked with the lift to allow authorised access only.
The lift was installed and commissioned in Summer 2023. Access Lifts also installed a dumbwaiter as part of the package.
Location: London
Status: Complete
Year Completed: 2023
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