Culture & Faith – Aspect 4 Limited

Working sensitively to maintain culturally important buildings – preserving the past and building for the future.

Our work in this sector is wide ranging, from project managing church extensions through to converting modern buildings into Muslim prayer room and ablution facilities.

Our clients in this sector include museums, universities, individual faith centres, charities and churches. Our team is always sensitive to the needs of different faith groups and to maintaining the structural and aesthetic integrity of significant heritage, cultural or religious buildings.

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Project In Focus

Carlton Prayer Rooms, University of Bradford

Project Summary:

With a diverse campus including a large population of Muslim students and staff, the University of Bradford required a new faith centre and prayer facility to be located in an old Waterstones bookshop in the existing Carlton building. The refurbishment demanded a detailed and informative design process to incorporate the client’s high-specification energy-efficient technology and to meet the religious needs of its users. The completed centre is well insulated and eco-friendly, with light wells and natural ventilation, absence-detection lighting and recycling points throughout. It features modern social spaces, purpose-built ablution facilities and a large, naturally lit open prayer area.

By providing both project management and quantity surveying services, Aspect 4 gave the client a single, approachable point of contact for all cost and programme information throughout the process.