At the same time, the team dealt with the practicalities of a restricted site, working ultra-close to the foundations of listed buildings, around a protected Californian Sequoia tree and over an underground stream.
As BAM’s Construction Manager Anthony Nagle told the CM newsletter: “My approach was always to say ‘you can have your vision on a piece of paper, or you can have a significant part of your vision standing as a real building in Oxford, you’re not going to get both within the budget’. In the end we arrived at a solution everyone was happy with.”
