The new SVO facility at Ryton is a centre of excellence for the Special Vehicles division producing limited edition customisations of Jaguar Land Rover cars. The facility comprises; a customer commissioning suite, Presentation Suite and ‘F1’ spec Front-of-House build workshop. In addition, there are further workshops, paint shop, supporting offices and other facilities.

Ridge was appointed from the early stages of the project, and by running stake holder workshops established the project brief and was responsible for the strategic planning of facility. Ridge worked from project start to completion and maintained a close relationship with SVO throughout, working efficiently with other client consultants and contractors in a very creative and cooperative environment, achieving a high-quality product with highly challenging programme and cost constraints.

The project involved the division of the open warehouse space to form the workshops and presentation space. This created the high specification workshop and customer areas, all with bespoke interiors and fittings meeting the exacting standard of SVO.

Ridge maintained a close relationship with SVO throughout, and worked efficiently with other client consultants and contractors in a very creative and cooperative environment, achieving a high-quality product with highly challenging programme and cost constraints.