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ABOUT US A LEADING CONSTRUCTION AND PROPERTY CONSULTANCY calfordseaden is a leading construction and property consultancy. Our comprehensive range of services cover architecture & masterplanning, chartered building & quantity surveying, project management, civil & structural engineering, mechanical & electrical engineering, sustainability and health & safety. Through our complementary and mutually supportive competencies, we provide our clients with a truly multi-disciplined service through our four offices. Our architects are appointed on a variety of projects from single buildings, to multi-million pound mixed-use urban regeneration developments. Our portfolio of projects includes all forms of housing including social and private housing together with commercial, industrial, health, education, community retail, leisure and other building projects. calfordseaden has extensive experience in traditional construction, but is also a leading authority in the design and use of modern methods of construction, sustainable design & construction, renewable technologies and other important factors pertaining to construction and property development. calfordseaden were one of the first construction consultancies to sign-up to the 2012 construction commitments. Our experience and constantly evolving expertise means we anticipate the needs of our clients and provide them with the best and latest solutions and perspectives. We believe in providing value for money for our clients and pursue a flexible and innovative approach to the challenges we encounter on their behalf.
OUR PEOPLE MAKE THE DIFFERENCE The Partners and staff of calfordseaden are its most important asset. We work in a people driven industry; it is our people that make the difference, providing quality service and designs. Our people are ultimately why our clients choose to work with us. It is their experience, expertise, skills and pro-active approach that make a real difference to their projects. A Partner is involved in some way in every project undertaken by calfordseaden. Their guidance not only ensures our clients receive the standard of service they expect, but means that our staff continuously benefit from their experience and expertise, ultimately enhancing their own personal development. The enormous collective experience throughout calfordseaden means we can provide the expertise our clients’ projects demands. Whether these demands are large or small, complex or simple, our committed teams of people have the ability to deliver projects from inception through to completion. The group work closely with our other departments in the office and a broad range of services, including employers agent, cost consultancy, party wall advise, health and safety, Housing Quality Indicators, and code for sustainable homes assessment can all be locally provided.
OUR SERVICES FOR ONE INDUSTRY WITH MANY REQUIREMENTS, CALFORDSEADEN IS ONE PRACTICE WITH MANY SOLUTIONS As a multidisciplined Practice, calfordseaden provide a range of services, in addition to our architectural services including:
CHARTERED SURVEYING Acquisition surveys Adjudication and arbitration Building surveys Clerks of works (site inspectors) Construction cost advice Contract administration Contract disputes Defects analysis and reparation advice Defects disputes Development appraisals Development monitoring Dilapidations Employer's agent Expert witness Feasibility studies Housing Quality Indicators Independent certifiers Insurance evaluations and claims Land lead opportunities Life cycle costing Maintenance Major repairs Partnering advice Neighbourly matters Planned maintenance reports Private finance initiative Project and technical audits Quantity surveying Refurbishment Research Rights of lights Schedule of conditions Sunlight and daylight Property taxation advice Topographical surveys Urban regeneration Value engineering
ARCHITECTURE & MASTERPLANNING Architectural design Conservation architecture Design and build Development appraisals Feasibility studies Master planning Memorials and statues Planning applications and appeals Refurbishment Space planning Town planning Urban design Urban regeneration
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING Adoption agreements Design and supervision Drainage and sewerage design Environmental and contaminated land appraisal Flood risk assessments Forensic engineering Highways and roads design Initial concept and feasibility Option appraisals Party wall assessment Refurbishment Risk assessment Site clearance and demolition appraisal Site investigation Structural assessments Structural repairs Structural surveys and investigations Testing and monitoring Value engineering
PROJECT MANAGEMENT Contract administration Contract disputes Defects disputes Development appraisals Development monitoring Employer's agent Partnering advice Project management and co-ordination Urban regeneration Value engineering
MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Adoption agreements Design and supervision Drainage and sewerage design Environmental and contaminated land appraisal Flood risk assessments Forensic engineering Highways and roads design Initial concept and feasibility
Option appraisals Party wall assessment Refurbishment Risk assessment Site clearance and demolition appraisal Site investigation Structural assessments Structural repairs Structural surveys and investigations Testing and monitoring Value engineering
SUSTAINABILITY ADVICE Sustainable homes Renewable energy Energy assessments Sustainability & energy reports Sustainable drainage systems and rainwater attenuation Water management Grants Training CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Commercial Energy Performance Certificates Existing Domestic Energy Performance Certificates SAP and As Built EPCs Airtightness testing Air permeability Acoustic testing Air conditioning inspection
HEALTH & SAFETY ADVICE Accident investigations CDM Coordinator services Fire risk management Health and safety management systems Health and safety policy Retainer services Site waste management plans Site safety inspections Site safety audits Training
For information, contact: Joanne Ellson BA (Hons) Dip Arch RIBA at our Birmingham office T 0121 454 1688 M 07912 389 276 E jellson@calfordseaden.co.uk
OUR EXPERIENCE BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP Teams in our Birmingham and Orpington offices joined forces at bid stage, to develop three scheme proposals in conjunction with Housing 21, for submission to Birmingham City Council. Following bid stage, one of the schemes was withdrawn. Our Birmingham office investigated a considerable number of scheme options with Birmingham Council for two remaining sites at Turves Green and Meadway, in order to balance the requirements of Birmingham Housing Department maximising the number of units, also those of the planners and urban designers achieving an acceptable site coverage, massing and street scene frontage treatment.
Each scheme has 87 units comprising one and two bedroom apartments with associated communal facilities, together with new bungalows on Turves Green and integrating existing bungalows on Meadway. The schemes vary from two to four storey to create an acceptable massing in relation to their surroundings.
Meadway, Birmingham
LITTLEMORE BAPTIST CHURCH, OXFORD
HASLUCKS GREEN ROAD, SHIRLEY
We were commissioned to provide a new mixed-use design for the site of an existing semi derelict Baptist Church. Consisting of eight single bedroom flats to allow independent living, set within a scheme that provides a communal hall and associated facilities for the local village community, to be managed by the local Baptist Union.
We were appointed to develop design proposals, from an original residential and retail masterplan, to create a new extra care facility within a restricted site. South Warwickshire Housing Associations brief required a minimum of 30 units for elderly and/or disabled residents, on a site that sat over a proposed underground car park, serving the adjacent development.
The very sympathetic aesthetics of the scheme assisted in obtaining planning permission. The scheme is currently being constructed on site and promises to produce an interesting and sympathetic building that will contribute to the local community in a number of differing ways.
The project was particularly challenging as the site was confined and located in a conservation area with a variety of architecture from numerous periods.
The design complements the surrounding residential street scene, incorporating a variety of communal areas and auxiliary facilities, as well as considered landscaping and car parking.
Haslucks Green, Shirley
Turves Green, Birmingham
Tandle View Court
Tandle View Court
OLDHAM PFI TANDLE VIEW COURT Nearing completion this scheme comprises 59 one and two bed apartments with extensive extra care communal facilities set around two courtyards. The building occupies former public green open space to allow construction adjacent to existing properties whose residents are moving to the new scheme, allowing demolition and the return of the land to landscaped public green open space.
Lees House, Oldham
The communal facilities will provide for both the residents and the wider elderly community in the area. The project has been well received locally and provides a significant landmark to the street scene along Rochdale Road and is currently being considered for a Local Authority Building Control Quality Award.
Tandle View Court
HOLLAND CLOSE
LEES HOUSE
Following the successful refurbishment, the scheme now provides 24 high quality and spacious one-bedroom flats, with additional high quality communal facilities. Despite the scheme comprising of three separate blocks, we were able to provide full disabled access to all areas for residents and visitors alike.
Completed as the first Oldham PFI scheme, it comprises of 14 one and two bed apartments with communal facilities, built to replace bed-sit accommodation.
Lees House, Oldham
Holland Close, Oldham
Oldham Private Finance Initiative consists of three new build schemes, 19 remodelling / refurbishment schemes and 825 bungalow refurbishments, totalling some 1500 properties.
Sure Start, Albert Bradbeer School, Birmingham
SURE START INITIATIVE, BIRMINGHAM Our team were appointed by Turner & Townsend Project Management, on behalf of Birmingham City Council to develop various projects under the Sure Start Initiative. The schemes comprised the extension or refurbishment of existing facilities through to new build on six separate educational sites. With contract sums ranging from £100,000 - £400,000 the projects were particularly challenging as all projects were constructed during term time, where inquisitive minds watched on during the construction process.
The variation of building projects range from the provision of a new ‘welcome’ entrance to Bells Farm Primary School, the reorganisation of an existing church hall to provide child facilities at Gospel Oak, the provision of health care facilities to existing Primrose Hill, Cape Street and Anderton Park Children’s Centres, through to a 460m2 new build project at Albert Bradbeer Primary School, to provide a Sure Start facility to support the existing site facilities.
GLEBE ROAD, STRATFORD UPON AVON The redevelopment of an existing site of 38 unity houses, set within an existing residential estate on the edge of Stratford Upon Avon. Working with residents to accommodate their requirements for their return upon completion of the project, options have been created by reviewing wish lists against the commercial requirements of our client to reflect current planning directives. The chosen proposal mixes the desires of the residents, by ensuring all dwellings are designed to Lifetime Homes Standards, and the development requirements of our client for a mixture of housing types, including bungalows.
SANDWELL PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP What started as a single scheme proposal has now developed into a rolling programme of three, and perhaps more ongoing scheme developments, with calfordseaden for Housing 21. To date, the most advanced of these schemes is the 87-unit scheme at Brandhall. The site was formally a care home and flats. High voltage underground cables dissecting the site have resulted in the scheme being designed as two blocks which address the steeply sloping site.
Queensridge Court, Brandhall, Sandwell
Raglan Street, Coventry
RAGLAN STREET, COVENTRY We were appointed as architects and lead consultants assisting our client to develop a restricted corner site on the periphery of Coventry City Centre. In addition to the 16 two bedroom apartments for general needs use, the ground floor was designed to provide four apartments with full disability access as alternative accommodation for existing residents being decanted from a nearby redevelopment area. The site was challenging in view of the specific spacial requirements associated with disabled users, and the location within a high density area adjoining a combination of established residential developments and newly constructed contemporary designed buildings. The scheme received planning permission without any difficulty and the completed project has been complimented as a highly successful scheme for our client.
Mossley, Walsall
WALSALL PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP Six schemes have received planning permission as part of the Walsall PPP initiative for the re-provision of Residential and Day Care Services. Five of the schemes are for extra-care accommodation providing over 280 units in total. The sixth is a specialist dementia unit for 40 residents with communal areas set in clusters of ten around four courtyards. calfordseaden worked closely with Housing 21’s ‘Dementia Voice’, who specialise in advice on dementia care in designing the scheme proposals. The unit will be phase one of a master-plan, including other health care facilities at the Goscote Hospital site, Walsall, where calfordseaden co-ordinated their proposals with other architects for the master-plan proposals.
Goscote Dementia Unit, Walsall
Although each scheme shares similar apartment layouts, an extensive range of communal facilities and day centre provision, each is different in responding to the site requirements and constraints. calfordseaden developed a good working relationship with the local authority, planners and the urban design team in developing the scheme proposals to achieve the various permissions required. All the schemes utilise off site manufacture (MMC) with lightweight steel frame construction and achieve a ‘very good’ BREEAM rating.
Brownhills, Walsall
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