Impact House

Impact House, Chigwell — fourteen flats over a ground-floor commercial unit, built from the frame up under a JCT Design and Build contract. Elite held the main contract and the Principal Designer and Principal Contractor duties. The frame is steel and reinforced concrete with concrete slabs. We built the shell, then fitted out the flats — kitchens, bathrooms and shower rooms, flooring, joinery, lighting and decoration — along with the balconies, the planted walkways and the roof terrace. The envelope was rainscreen cladding on Metsec framing, metal composite aluminium panel, aluminium windows and flashings, and render over insulation. The unit at the bottom of the building we fitted out as the Moka coffee shop, which has its own page on this site.