Møller Windows 2015

Last week we had 148 new windows delivered which will replace the windows in the existing bedrooms and public areas. 

This additional investment underlines our commitment to improving the aesthetics of the entire building physically and in terms of environmental performance. 

The steam cleaning of the original brickwork and the addition of the zinc window sills to protect the brick work will also ensure the new build is sympathetic to the original design. 

Watch this space for our next update as the Møller Build project reaches it's final stages. 

Møller teams on the move - offices become kitchen

As you are hopefully not too aware, our building project in the main building is nearing completion and last week saw our housekeeping department, kitchen staff, and sales and events teams manoeuvre to accommodate the creation of a new, state of the art kitchen in the main building.

The kitchen team say goodbye to the main building kitchen for refurbishment.

Our team in the main kitchen are relocating to the Study Centre, moving into an expanded kitchen there, which was previously the sales and events teams’ office. The sales and events teams have moved into Study Centre 8 until the spring when they will move into the new building. The housekeeping department has also moved from the basement to their temporary home in the main building lecture theatre.

The sales and events teams celebrate moving offices.

The sales and events office transforms into an extension of the Study Centre kitchen.

The only noticeable difference for clients will be that breakfast will be served in the Tower Lounge Bar and lunch will be served in The Study Centre or Tower Lounge bar as appropriate.

Whilst the improvements are made, clients have been asked for early advice on their agenda timing information, timings for lunch (including any flexibility), requirements for trade stands, including registration desks, exhibitors/sponsor desks and break-out groups, as we work to ensure group comfort for all clients onsite.

Our Event Planners will be discussing these options with clients to find the best solution for each event. 

We have recorded some video footage which shows the progress of the new meeting rooms and executive bedrooms in the extension of our main building, and the new offices where our event planning, sales, executive education, accounts, Møller PSF, marketing teams and others will be based.

As you can see the rooms are nearing completion and will be open for client viewing in March.

The rooms are intelligently designed specifically for delivering effective training, development and learning to multiple groups of around 20-30.  Our extensive experience, learned from over 20 years of hosting client events and from designing and delivering bespoke executive education programmes, has been integral in the planning and execution of the design and build of the new training rooms.  

These new rooms are supported by a dedicated refreshments area linking them seamlessly to our lecture theatre, restaurant, Tower Lounge Bar, roof terrace and reception lounge. This will give programme or conference organisers the assurance that their groups can be efficiently managed in a timely manner. 


Meeting Rooms - click here
This clip shows the room MS2 which will be a spacious, south-facing training suite opening out onto a landscaped patio area, allowing clients additional breakout and networking space in the summer months.  The design ensures clients have the most inspiring views and access to the beautiful parkland of the Churchill College campus.

Executive bedrooms - click here
Shows the size of the executive bedrooms, which face Churchill College parkland.

The Hub - click here
Shows 'The Hub' which will be the offices for the client support team.   

Room capacities and dimensions can be viewed here 

West extension update

A long-overdue update of the progress being made with the building works at The Møller Centre.  

This is Tim Hill reporting.  I am the new marketing manager at The Møller Centre and I had the pleasure of a site visit last Friday 12 September focusing on the west extension which doesn't appear to have featured previously on the build blog.  

As with everything at The Møller Centre, I was massively impressed by the meticulous planning and detailed thought that has gone into every aspect of every room.  Clearly Stuart and the team's experience and deep understanding of the needs of leadership education have been used to full effect.  I was also absolutely amazed by the scale of the construction project and how this has been progressing quietly in the background with minimal fuss and disruption to our customers and our staff. 

The west extension is the part of the building shown in the photo below, this photo also shows how seamlessly the new build blends into the old building.

Facts and figures for the west extension

Second floor - Seven new executive en-suite bedrooms 

First floor - 85m₂ of new training and dining space; 75m₂ of refurbished training and dining space. Please click here to see floor plan. 

Ground floor - New kitchen extension

The ground floor

Our state of the art kitchen is taking shape.  The existing kitchen is still in full service and behind it the new kitchen area is being built which will double its size.  A well-hidden service yard will allow deliveries (food, drinks, bins, etc.) to take place completely out of the sight of clients.  The area has been carefully planned to achieve the most efficient workflow processes such as ensuring that packaging from deliveries is removed and recycled before even entering the building.  Directly on top of the service area will be a landscaped kitchen herb garden for our chefs - this will bring new meaning to our locally sourced food credentials.

This photo shows the covered service area.

New training and dining space

For those that remember the series of original small meeting rooms that were spread across the first and second floors of the main building and accessed off the spiral staircase, these have been demolished and re-modelled to create a series of large south-facing training suites on the first floor and executive bedrooms on the second floor.  

The new flexible training rooms on the first floor are all in close proximity to the Tower Lounge Bar and Lecture Theatre enabling event managers to co-ordinate their groups efficiently. 

The new state-of-the-art training area will be double the size of the previous arrangement and incorporate a sizeable refreshments station and milling area.  One of the training suites will open out onto a landscaped patio area which clients will be able to use as additional breakout space in the summer months and a catering area.

Photos below show the new meeting room space, the view outside onto the area which will become a patio and the remodelling of the original meeting rooms.

The bedrooms

A view of the shells of the new executive en-suite bedrooms can be seen below.

Finally a photo of the roof trusses which are now in place and one of the window at the end of the west extension.

North pavilion taking shape!

After months of below ground and foundation work, hidden by the compound walls, the new bedroom block in the north pavilion is progressing at a rapid rate with brickwork now up to ceiling height on the first floor. The week commencing 28.7.14 will see the concrete slabs, which form the ceiling for first floor rooms and also the slab for the second floor rooms, be craned into position. The brickwork will then continue in earnest until the process is repeated for the next level three weeks later.

The degree of progress made in recent weeks now clearly defines the floor plan of the ground and first floor level bedrooms and corridor. Of the twelve new guest bedrooms in the north pavilion, two have been designed taking careful consideration for guests with restricted mobility. The floor plan of this north pavilion extension varies slightly from the existing four block which is located closer to the study centre, as the staircase and lift will be housed in the link to the main building, meaning the new bedrooms will be slightly larger.

For the readers wanting a more technical update, the concrete block work which forms the inner and structural walls of the north pavilion are surrounded with Kingspan foil back rigid insulation, an important layer to help reduce heat loss and solar gain. The outside layer of honey coloured bricks to match the existing building are erected leaving a gap for circulation allowing the building to “breath”. The handmade Stamford Sand Brown bricks, made in York, are the closest match we could achieve to the original Stamford brick which is no longer in production. The Portland Stone horizontal bands have been cut to match the original stone work and are not a cheaper reconstituted product.

New patio for the Study Centre

Although the majority of the building works are concentrated around the main building, we are also undertaking hard and soft landscaping works to improve the area around the study centre. The first of six phases is now complete – a newly created patio to the west side of the study centre building, just to the left of the main entrance as you approach. This patio has outdoor seating and is designed to be used for dining, networking or even working space (provided the weather permits)! 

Developments on the north pavilion

The new administration wing for the back of house staff, located between the existing and new bedroom blocks, is really beginning to take shape. Its roof incorporates three large windows (seen here in the photo) to ensure the open plan office is flooded with natural light. This centralised office will improve internal efficiency at the heart of the business.

Adjacent to the office, in the basement of the new bedroom block (located in the foreground of the photo) will be housekeeping storage and a second passenger lift. The concrete that forms the roof of this area and also the base of the new ground floor bedrooms has now been poured. Brickwork to build the structure up will commence next week.