37 Doughty Street, Bloomsbury: serviced apartments wired room by room.
Lighting, power, data, fire alarm and door entry for boutique serviced apartments in a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse at 37 Doughty Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1. The fit-out was led by our director Michael Simm.
37 Doughty Street is a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse in Bloomsbury, converted into boutique serviced apartments: studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments over several floors, with kitchens and en suites. The brief was hotel-standard lighting, power and data in every apartment, a fire alarm system for a building where guests sleep, and secure door entry at the street door, all worked around the period features of a listed building. The fit-out was led by our director Michael Simm, and in October 2024 our engineers serviced the building’s CCTV.
At a glance
| Location | 37 Doughty Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1 |
|---|---|
| Completed | 2022 |
| Work | Serviced apartment electrical fit-out |
| Property | Serviced apartments in a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse |
Guest rooms
Kitchenettes and en suites
Entrance hall, stairs and corridors
Fire alarm
Emergency lighting
Door entry and exit
Data cabling: tested and certified
Power and controls
What we did
- Feature lighting throughout: hexagon LED pendants along the entrance hall, fluted wall lights at the bedheads and on the stairs, track spotlights, drum and multi-arm pendants, and a cluster pendant dropped down the stairwell
- Kitchenettes with LED strip lighting in the open shelving and under the wall cabinets, and sockets placed for the kettle, microwave and appliances
- En suites with illuminated mirror cabinets, downlights and supplies for the heated towel rails
- Cat6 data to the rooms, with every outlet tested and certified on a Fluke DTX-1800 cable analyser
- A fire alarm system: an Advanced MxPro panel with a zone chart, a detector in every room, call points at the exits and fire-resistant cabling
- Emergency lighting and illuminated exit signs along the escape routes
- Door entry at the street door: an entry panel for each floor, a keypad and a proximity card reader, with a press-to-exit button and emergency door release inside
- Presence detectors for automatic lighting, and supplies to the electric panel heaters in each room
- A three-phase distribution board with RCBO protection on the circuits
Equipment used
- Hexagon LED pendants, fluted wall lights, track spotlights and feature pendants
- LED strip and under-cabinet lighting
- Illuminated mirror cabinets
- Cat6 data cabling, certified with a Fluke DTX-1800
- Advanced MxPro fire alarm panel, Hochiki call points and fire-resistant cable
- Emergency lighting and illuminated exit signs
- Videx door entry panel with Vanderbilt keypad and card reader, exit button and emergency door release
- Schneider Electric three-phase distribution board
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