HOME andDRY


The Mary Rose Museum opened earlier this year, but the painstaking process of drying the warship’s ancient timbers goes on. So how did Ramboll achieve a closely controlled environment in one of the UK’s busiest tourist attractions? Andy Pearson reports


I 28 CIBSE Journal September 2013


It is not often that a museum of medieval history is completed before its star attraction. But that was the case with the new Mary Rose Museum in


Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre and interior architect Pringle Brandon Perkins + Will, the £27m visitor centre opened to critical acclaim earlier this year. The problem was that the museum


next to HMS Victory had to be built around its incredibly delicate centrepiece – a 20m x 13m section of the Tudor warship’s starboard hull. This is currently


saturated with timber preservative as part of a conservation process that will not be completed until 2016. ‘The hull’s precarious condition


meant that conservation had to continue, without interruption, while the Mary Rose’s new home was built around it,’ says Tim Lloyd, an associate at building services engineer Ramboll UK. Not only did the services have to be designed to maintain the environment around the hull during construction and the museum’s fi rst years as a busy tourist attraction, they also have to be capable of


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