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WFC complete ninth Oceana Nightclub!

Watford's eagerly anticipated Oceana nightclub has opened its doors for the first time. Main Contractor, Newton Abbot based WFC has just completed the £5.5million fit out of the 40,000 sq ft venue two weeks ahead of schedule.

The multi room destination venue will offer party-goers a number of unmatchable experiences over three floors. The venue incorporates two nightclubs, six bars, VIP suites and Smoking Terrace.  Designed by Bignell Shacklady Ewing, the brief was to continue and strengthen the already hugely successful Oceana brand where all rooms reflect iconic cities from around the world.

Unique to Watford will be a trapeze artist who will perform from high above the dance floor. The sophisticated steel structure designed to hold the trapeze was built by WFC's specialist division Simply Metal. Other unique design features of the venue will include two new rooms ‘Barcelona' and ‘Russia'.

WFC's project manager, Mark Harris, commented: "This has been one of the most interesting and challenging Oceana nightclubs I have worked on as the building required extensive internal upgrading to suit the new layout. I am in no doubt our in house team enabled us to be flexible and meet challenges the project brought in order for us to deliver ahead of schedule and on budget. By managing many aspects of the fit out in house, we were able to ensure quality control and deadlines were consistently beaten".

Brian Hawkins of Bignell Shacklady Ewing added to this: "This has been an exciting and challenging project for us. Although Oceana has a distinctive brand, each venue is slightly different and our brief here meant that we were able to create two new themes ‘Barcelona' and ‘Russia'. The internal challenges of this site meant that completing this project ahead of schedule was a significant achievement for WFC."

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