Sky Studios Campus, Elstree

Hertfordshire

Specialism

Industrial

Services

Employer's Agent, Project Management & Quantity Surveyor

Client

Legal & General

Project Summary

A state-of-the-art film and TV Studio, housing 13 sound stages, 2 production support buildings, support offices, a multi-storey car park and a visitor centre.

Sky Studios, Elstree was developed by Legal & General and built with the support of Sky owner Comcast and sister company NBCUniversal.

They will enable £3 billion worth of new production investment in the first five years alone and are set to become the most sustainable TV and film production facility in Europe, with a target of achieving net zero carbon by 2030.

The new studios has a total of 585,483sq ft ( 54,391m2) gross internal building area and houses a variety of Sky Originals produced by Sky Studios, as well as major film productions from Universal Pictures, Focus Features and Working Title and TV series from Universal Studio Group. It also has the capacity to host third-party productions.

The site is located to the east of Borehamwood town centre and covers an area of approximately 11.6 hectares. It is bounded to the east and west sides by the A1 (Barnet Bypass) and Rowley Lane respectively.

The majority of the site is open land but the western part of the site is mainly made up of hardstanding.

External works included the creation of base camp areas, access roads and hardstanding for new utility connections, and parking and storage areas for cars and bicycles with the ability to charge electric buggies.

External works also included security fencing, gates and turnstiles, soft and hard landscaping, mains services along with foul and surface water drainage.