DYK Newsletter Autumn 2010

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AUTUMN 2010

THE CALFORDSEADEN NEWSLETTER

10th ANNIVERSARY

Our Birmingham office celebrates its 10th anniversary this September, marking the occasion with an evening reception at the renowned Ikon Gallery . . .

ALSO INSIDE . . .

THE MAGNIFICENCE OF RESTORATION Restoration of a Westminster property dating back to 1911.

ARE YOU COMPLIANT? The legal responsibilities for the health & safety of everyone affected by your business.

SPACE TO LEARN How educational buildings should be at the heart of every community.

REGENERATION OF THAMESMEAD Our various involvement in this area of regeneration.

AN AGEING POPULATION Is the range of building solutions for older people adequate for the future.

GUEST ARTICLE

THE FUTURE OF CIVIL LITIGATION COSTS We hear the views of David Pryce, an expert in this field.

INTRODUCTION

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The past 10 years has seen calfordseaden’s Birmingham office expand from a small team offering chartered surveying & project management services, to an office now with an established architectural department and offering an additional range of health & safety construction & workplace services.

espite the current economic climate affecting the country, impacting on property & construction in particular, calfordseaden’s Birmingham team continue to work on many projects throughout the region working with clients such as the Midlands Co-operative Society, Zurich Financial Services, Salvation Army, Affinity Sutton, Derwent Living and Orbit Group.

Recently, the Midlands team have surveyed more than 400 school sites within Birmingham City Council’s educational portfolio for asset management purposes, have designed a number of Sure-Start centres in Birmingham and continues to work on Public Private Partnerships in Birmingham, Sandwell & Walsall delivering a range of affordable housing developments for older people. We have recently completed a major PFI commission in Oldham, providing over 1400 residential units for the elderly. This initiative included Tandle View Court, an LABC Building Excellence Awards Finalist. We also continue to work in the commercial sectors, including retail, office and industrial.

To mark our 10th anniversary, our Birmingham office are hosting an event at the Ikon Gallery in Brindley Place in September. For those not so familiar with the Ikon Gallery, it started as a small kiosk in Birmingham’s Bullring but is now housed in the neo-gothic Oozells Street School.

Ikon’s reputation for innovation, internationalism and excellence developed over 40 years. Ikon receives core funding from Arts Council England West Midlands and Birmingham City Council and raises additional income from a variety of sources, including charitable trusts, foundations and corporate sponsorship, such as the function being hosted by calfordseaden.

Neil Hebberts, Partner and Branch Manager of calfordseaden’s Birmingham office, commented:

“We all feel a sense of real achievement over the past 10 years, and strongly believe we have positively contributed to the continuing development of the Midlands region. We are also pleased, that even in these difficult economic times, we are able to mark our 10th anniversary and support the Ikon Gallery in doing so. We are looking forward to a further 10 years and beyond working throughout the region with our clients”

For further information contact: Neil Hebberts Partner and Branch Manager at our Birmingham office T 0121 454 1688 E nhebberts@calfordseaden.co.uk

CONTENTS THE MAGNIFICENCE OF RESTORATION Restoration of a Westminster property dating back to 1911.

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A LEADING LIGHT The on-going development of our Rights to Light expertise.

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CODE LEVEL 5 Demonstration House, Hawkhurst, Kent.

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ARE YOU COMPLIANT? The legal responsibilities for the health & safety of everyone affected by your business.

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SPACE TO LEARN How educational buildings should be at the heart of every community.

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REGENERATION OF THAMESMEAD Our various involvement in this area of regeneration.

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AN AGEING POPULATION Is the range of building solutions for older people adequate for the future.

Pages 11-12 GUEST ARTICLE

THE FUTURE OF CIVIL LITIGATION COSTS We hear the views of David Pryce, an expert in this field.

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COMMERCIAL OFFICE FIT-OUT Works in multi let properties.

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CENTRAL MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL Our roles within this sustainable development.

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SUSTAINABLE HOUSING AWARDS FINALIST Terry Keech is shortlisted for this prestigious award.

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CONGRATULATIONS Our very own Richard Williams becomes a British Weightlifting Champion.

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ALL ARTICLES ARE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE: WWW.CALFORDSEADEN.CO.UK

THE MAGNIFICENCE OF RESTORATION calfordseaden have recently completed the restoration of a 10,000 sq ft office building back to a single house.

Sir Edwin Lutyens originally designed this Grade II listed property, located in Westminster, in 1911. The property, set over basement, ground & three upper floors, was badly damaged during the Second World War and the original staircase had been taken out and replaced with a concrete one, more suitable for office premises. Richard Grove provides an insight into this magnificent restoration project.

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eturning the building to a house was welcomed

by Westminster City Council and both planning and listed building consent was obtained within the statutory eight weeks. Our design looked back to the original house layout and also looked forward to provide a contemporary house with state-of-the-art audio, visual and IT systems.

One of the new dominant features of the house is the installation of a purpose-built, spiral, cantilevered, stone staircase with wrought iron balustrading.

calfordseaden supplied a “one-stop� service providing project management, architectural, interior design, structural and mechanical & electrical engineering, and quantity surveying services.

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A LEADING LIGHT Over the past 15 years, under the direction of Stephen Cotterell, Partner, calfordseaden has invested in their rights of light expertise and software to support our rights to light and daylight & sunlight assessment service.

This investment has also enabled Peter Defoe to help develop our service to our clients and to achieve the ďŹ rst ever Doctorate in the Built Environment for his thesis entitled 'The Validity of Daylight Calculations in Rights to Light cases'.

This links the main reception rooms at ground level to upper floors and provides a stunning addition to the gracious and well-proportioned rooms. calfordseaden also provided interior design services to the principal reception rooms and sleeping accommodation. Our interior design architect created a bespoke fireplace for the drawing room to complement the stone door surrounds, as the original Jagger surround is now displayed in the Victorian & Albert Museum.

The result is a stunning restoration, of which calfordseaden are particularly proud to be associated and the new owners are delighted to have been able to restore this fine example of Sir Edwin Lutyens’ London architecture.

For further information contact: Richard Grove at our London office T 020 7940 3200 E rgrove@calfordseaden.co.uk

Following on from this success, Peter is now co-author of the soon to be published RICS guidance note on rights of light, to be launched in October this year and his latest paper on rights to light has been accepted unamended for the RICS COBRA (Construction, Building and Real Estate Research) conference in Paris in early September. His previous papers for Structural Survey, published by Emerald, entitled 'Was Waldram Wrong?' and 'Waldram was Wrong!' have been well received with an Outstanding Paper Award in 2008.

He has also been published in the RICS East of England journal and by CIBSE in BSJ with his research results on adequacy of daylighting levels.

In parallel with this, the BRE are now revising and updating their guidance note on Site Layout Planning for Daylight and Sunlight involving the leading experts, including ourselves, and using experience gained during Peter's research, in refining and improving this essential guidance for Planners.

calfordseaden is able to offer advice to its clients on all aspects of daylight and sunlight assessment from initial risk assessment and advice on development scale, through to reports for planning and expert evidence or negotiation of compensation where actionable losses are predicted. We have provided advice on projects from a small rear extension where our client avoided an injunction, to major inner city regeneration schemes where our clients were able to maximise return on investment.

A copy of calfordseaden's right of light, sunlight & daylight brochure can be downloaded from the publications section of our website.

For further information contact: Peter Defoe at our Orpington office T 01689 888222 E pdefoe@calfordseaden.co.uk

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CODE LEVEL 5

Demonstration House Hawkhurst, Kent calfordseaden assisted Town & Country Housing Group in arranging an open day on 2nd July for their Code Level 5 low carbon demonstration house at Fieldways, Hawkhurst, in which we acted as employer's agent, sustainability M&E adviser, code assessor and CDM coordinator.

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This house achieves Level 5 under the Code for Sustainable Homes, the first in the area.

It provides an important insight into what houses of the future may be like and has been designed to be in keeping with the existing homes in the local area.

Our sustainability and mechanical and electrical engineering expert, Terry Keech, gave a presentation explaining the special features of the house and how he and Town & Country will be able to monitor every aspect of the building’s energy use via the internet, together with valuable feedback from the tenants.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE: Very high levels of insulation; Thin joint block work construction; Local & sustainably sourced materials; Triple glazed timber windows; Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery; Solar electric and solar hot water panels; A ground source heat pump; ‘Smart’ metering; Water efficient fittings; Rainwater harvesting and permeable paving; Natural low toxin paints; Lifetime Homes compliant; Internal and external recycling facilities.

OUR SERVICES ALSO INCLUDED: Employers Agent; CDM Coordinator; Code Assessor.

For further information contact: Angela Lemon at our Orpington office T 01689 888222 E alemon@calfordseaden.co.uk

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eveloped in partnership with Denne Construction and calfordseaden, and supported by the Homes & Communities Agency, Fieldways has been used to test and demonstrate the building techniques and technologies that house builders will need to use in the future in order to comply with the future 'Zero Carbon Homes' aspirations. The house has also been developed to look at suitable technologies for use on existing stock housing and how best to install retro fit technologies.

Learning from the individual elements of the scheme in terms of construction and feedback from the residents will be used to inform other projects, including 'retrofit' situations.

This low carbon house provides a pleasant place to live, with energy bills that should be considerably lower.

The cost of the overall project has been monitored carefully, and is inevitably higher than would be anticipated for a straight forward Code 5 dwelling, as it has been constructed as a "one-off" demonstration project.

However, the lessons learned will be taken forward by the project team and costs significantly reduced for future projects, replicating only those features and products that have proved to be successful, efficient and cost effective.

Paul White, Design & Quality Manager at Town and Country:

“I would like to thank calfordseaden for the excellent organisation of the event and Terry's expertise, support and enthusiasm on the day and over the life of the project.

Many thanks to Angela Lemon and the support team for dealing with my questions during the construction phase and managing the site so well.

We have received some excellent feedback on the event and for what we have produced”

Rob Pannell, Head of House Building at Zero Carbon Hub:

“The Hawkhurst scheme is a very credible development with tremendous potential for mass scale re-production – one of the best projects I have seen across the UK to date”

For further information contact: Terry Keech at our Orpington office T 01689 888222 E tkeech@calfordseaden.co.uk

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ARE YOU COMPLIANT? As an owner or director of a business, you have legal responsibilities for the health & safety of everyone affected by your business.

Failing to meet these obligations can have severe consequences, not only for those people affected by an illness, accident or incident itself, but also personally for a business owner or its directors.

Stephen Cotterell highlights some of the services we provide to help you comply with your obligations.

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calfordseaden health & safety can help you meet your obligations. Our health & safety consultants can assist you to prevent accidents and incidents occurring in the first place, avoid the costs of such occurrences, improve your reputation through health & safety and assist you to plan for the future.

FIRE RISK MANAGEMENT The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 covers fire precautions and other fire duties to protect people in the event of a fire and covers all non-domestic premises, which also includes the common parts of blocks of flats. We undertake fire risk assessments and provide comprehensive advice to our clients to enable them to satisfy their obligations under the current fire safety legislation.

TRAINING Regularly training demonstrates competence and is key to the successful implementation of health & safety within any organisation. We offer a wide range of training on health & safety, including bespoke training programmes and in-house seminars to senior management and staff.

HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY Through our health & safety management systems service, we will audit your existing systems, policies and procedures. This forms the basis of further developing your management systems and strategies, based on industry best practice and international standards.

A good health & safety policy guides the way work is completed, the selection of persons, equipment and material for various tasks and the design and provision of products and services. Our consultants will work closely with you to understand your business and its operations and prepare a new robust policy or review and update your existing policy, ensuring it meets the requirements of current legislation.

Our retainer service is a cost effective and practical way of managing every aspect of your health & safety performance. Our service covers an annual assessment of your management systems, regular advice, legislative updates and free training seminars.

FURTHER INFORMATION ON OUR SERVICES CAN BE FOUND AT: WWW.CALFORDSEADEN.CO.UK/HEALTHANDSAFETY

CONSTRUCTION HEALTH, SAFETY AND WASTE MANAGEMENT We have provided services under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations for over 15 years. As CDM coordinators, we effectively manage the flow of health and safety information, coordinate the health & safety aspects of design work, cooperate with all project participants and apply the “Principles of Prevention� when discharging our duties. We also promote and facilitate good communication between the client, designers and contractors.

To assist our clients comply with their duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations and the Site Waste Management Regulations we also provide services covering Site Waste Management Plans, Site Safety Inspections and Site Safety Audits.

For further information on our comprehensive health & safety service contact: Stephen Cotterell at our Orpington office T 01689 888222 E scotterell@calfordseaden.co.uk Peter Gatfield at our London office T 020 7940 3200 E pgatfield@calfordseaden.co.uk Pierre Langlois at our Birmingham office T 0121 454 1688 E planglois@calfordseaden.co.uk Paul Kent at our Winchester office T 01962 718300 E pkent@calfordseaden.co.uk

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Now that the Building Schools for the Future programme has been abandoned, it herald’s the end of building school’s as factories for kids and creating icons for architects. Schools will of course continue to be built, perhaps not so many and with a greater emphasise on refurbishment.

Positive educational environments encourage learning and earn respect; John Spence and Roger Day explain.

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y redefining how schools and other educational buildings interact with the wider community, we can realise their full potential. A school situated on the same site as, for example, a primary health care centre, commercial & workshop units, retail premises and youth & community facilities would benefit in many ways. Such benefits include cross subsidy, reduced road congestion, closer links between education & business, potential employment opportunities, shared and better utilised premises, reduced facilities management costs, enhanced use of renewable energy & feed-in tariffs and ultimately a more engaging & stimulating environment for children to learn and thrive in.

Our key objective through design and development of new or existing school buildings is to exceed expectations. To do so, we must establish not only what our client believes they require now, but also what they aspire to and what they anticipate they may need in the future.

To achieve this objective we seek to fully engage with all stakeholders throughout the design stages, and support them through a process of analysis and discovery to establish a full and detailed design brief.

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With a comprehensive brief we can develop a robust, buildable and sustainable concept out of which will evolve an adaptable building that creates a positive sense of place, fulfilling not only our client’s objectives, but which also makes a significant contribution to the building’s planning context, educational and environmental.

We are very clear to make the distinction that a school is a place of learning, rather than a place of teaching. In our approach, the students are every bit as important as the commissioning client (perhaps more so) and we always seek to engage with them and to accommodate their views and opinions in the design development process. Most importantly we believe that they should be shown the utmost respect, we strongly believe that in return they will be more committed and respectful of the school and its environment.

SPACE TO LEARN

Education is a life long and evolving process and educational buildings should be at the heart of every community, so our children discover, engage and learn from their environments and the wider society. Educational buildings should be stimulating environments that encourage learning and earn the pupils’ respect. These buildings must be sustainable and adaptable to change and accommodate the evolving demands placed on them. Not to do so, will ultimately compromise students’ learning potential.

Sustainability is at the heart of all that we undertake as a Practice. The majority of young people now expect environmental and sustainability issues to be appropriately addressed, and their school buildings contribute as much to their learning and understanding of the environment as the lessons undertaken within them. The buildings and environments we create uphold and demonstrate, as a tangible learning tool, the very best available to us, reducing our impact on the earth’s finite resources.

Through calfordseaden’s multi-disciplined service approach we are able to provide a full Building Information Model (BIM), technology with sustainable design and analysis tools for new construction and renovation projects. Why not work with us to evolve your concept and ideas into a full 3D model, which can show you what the building will really look like, how it will really work and what impact design decisions will really have in terms of environmental performance?

For further information contact: John Spence at our Orpington office T 01689 888222 E jspence@calfordseaden.co.uk Roger Day at our Orpington office T 01689 888222 E rday@calfordseaden.co.uk

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REGENERATION THAMESMEAD

Thamesmead is a major development of high and low-rise blocks with interconnecting walkways covering 130 acres of former marshland in the north of the London Boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich, near the River Thames. Here,, Chris Willis explains his group’s ongoing involvement.

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calfordseaden have been appointed by Gallions Housing Association in various roles, including architect, employer’s agent, client representative, HQI assessor, sustainability adviser, CDM coordinator and clerk of works on several important schemes within the area, designed to bring new life to the community”

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This £138 million scheme is one of the most ambitious regeneration projects in the Thames Gateway, involving the demolition of 230 flats and the refurbishment of 96 flats to Decent Homes Standards in two tower blocks, together with the construction of 827 new homes.

Existing community facilities are currently in the process of being replaced with a new large health centre, retail, office and community facilities, car park, new multi-use games area, along with significant improvements to the local streetscape and landscape. Southmere lake forms part of the surrounding area and the masterplan provides environmental improvement works and enhanced community facilities.

For further information on this project contact: Jacqui Fogerty at our Orpington office T 01689 888222 E jfogerty@calfordseaden.co.uk

A new riverside town in the late 1960’s, the area has been plagued with social problems including graffiti, serious vandalism, high crime levels and lack of amenities such as shops and schools.

LINTON MEAD (Thamesmere Drive) Gallions Housing Association’s first bespoke extra care development is a five storey development that has been designed to a BREEAM multi residential rating of ‘Excellent’; providing 38 one bedroom and 20 two bedroom extracare apartments, a number of which have been designed to the Greenwich wheelchair design standard, together with day care unit, commercial kitchen and support facilities.

POPLAR PLACE As the site is within the flood risk zone of the River Thames, detailed flood risk assessments were undertaken to allow the building to be designed accordingly and solutions found to overcome a sudden and unexpected large volume of water flooding into the immediate area to the satisfaction of the Environment Agency.

Planning permission was granted for the removal of the disused fuel farm, demolition of the derelict boxing club and the construction of a three to eight storey building of 62 mix tenure flats and maisonettes, designed in a stepped format.

The site of a redundant district heating boiler house was also developed to provide 47 residential dwellings, including houses and flats for shared ownership. The flats are in an eight-storey terracotta clad circular building with a mono pitch roof, providing Poplar Place with a new prominent local landmark for the replacement of the very popular and well known boiler house and its distinct chimneys. Both schemes were designed to high environmental standards, Secure

by Design Award and incorporate Lifetime Homes and bespoke wheelchair housing units. They also meet the Government’s guidelines on the re-use of urban land, particularly derelict or under used land, for new housing.

For further information on these projects contact: Ian Walker at our Orpington office T 01689 888222 E iwalker@calfordseaden.co.uk

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AN AGEING POPULATION

With the UK population increasing in both age and size, as an industry we must ask the question if today’s range of building solutions for older persons and their care are going to be adequate for the future. Joanne Ellson writes.

Current shrinking building budgets mean reductions in building footprints, so addressing the existing requirements for today’s new older persons developments are already coming under increasing strain.

If we were then to add to these new developments many of the known features that should be incorporated to adequately address the needs of people in the future, we can see the enormity of the task facing care providers, designers and developers today.

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f we take the simple electric mobility scooter, most new developments will not adequately take account of their increased numbers in the future. The advent of the mobility buggy has enabled older people a new freedom to remain independent for longer. They fulfil a very valuable function; enabling people to enjoy a much better quality of life, including taking part in healthy, stimulating sociable activities out in the community.

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With their popularity ever growing and demand making them more affordable, Age Concern are suggesting that care providers need to ensure they put policies in place now to deal with this potential problem. However, with shrinking budget and footprints, how are we going to deal with the future need for mobility scooters within residential care buildings? It is not just the increased space that is needed to store and charge the vehicle, but also the manoeuvring circles within the accommodation and their weight.

As the design of these motorised units develops, there is a potential for the weight of each to increase or the frequency of vehicles to add a uniform load, adding to the cost of the building structure.

Addressing this at design stage for future proofing may result in an additional footprint to the apartments, wider corridors to ensure turning is possible, additional wall protection, increased design loads, and in almost all

cases further fire protection if charging bays are allowed within the communal space. All of this adds cost to a scheme, usually resulting in the reduction of community spaces. calfordseaden’s review of current thinking for electric vehicles (EVs) within new buildings is that small stores, labelled EV, are being provided, accommodating approx 5% of the buildings population.

‘Pull-in’ charging bays, adjacent to the apartment entrances in the corridor, appears the most appropriate design solution. Building Control appear adverse to this idea, due to the fire risk in blocked egress routes and the vehicles themselves causing a fire risk within a protected corridor. One way of future proofing for this is allowing strategic apartments within the scheme that can be stripped out to provide the additional space required. This however has a knock on effect to the financial modelling and viability of the project, but maybe substantially cheaper than uplifting a building design loads and

areas for a ‘potential’ future problem.

The optimum design solution, however, remains to be realised.

The rising popularity of the simple electric vehicle is just one of the many factors that will affect both existing and new older persons developments of all residential types now and into the future. We can see, however, how this one relatively simple issue has major ramifications on the design of a building. As designers we must continue to question how we design buildings today and how they will fit their purpose in the future. As an industry we must work together to ensure that today’s buildings for residential care are adequate for the future.

For further information contact: Joanne Ellson at our Birmingham office T 0121 454 1688 E jellson@calfordseaden.co.uk

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THE FUTURE OF CIVIL

LITIGATION COSTS It would be fair to say that Lord Justice Jackson’s Review of Civil Litigation Costs, published in January this year, polarised opinions. It has been hailed as “lucid, reasoned, and stunning” 1 and condemned as “despicable”2.

Jackson LJ’s final report probably justifies both views, at least in part. David Pryce of Fenchurch Law LLP explains..

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n the one hand the report is an impressively detailed and carefully considered piece of work, containing many excellent recommendations which are likely to reduce the cost of civil litigation as a whole. On the other hand the report also contains some deeply problematic areas, and favours the interests of the media and the insurance market at the expense of members of the public, by seeking inappropriately to shift the costs burden from defendants to claimants.

At present, the cost of litigation is borne primarily by defendants whose actions have caused others (successful claimants) to suffer loss. Many of Lord Justice Jackson’s recommendations will, if implemented in their current form, have the effect of shifting the costs burden from (unsuccessful) defendants to (successful) claimants.

The difficulty with this approach is that many defendants (employers, professional advisers, property owners etc) are able to spread the cost of any claims which they may face by insuring against them. In this respect, the defendants “stand together”.

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Professor Dominic Regan, New Law Journal, 22.01.2010 Chris Wait, Temple Legal Protection Ltd, The Times, 25.03.2010

COMMERCIAL OFFICE FIT-OUT WORKS IN MULTI LET PROPERTIES Claimants, on the other hand, “stand alone”, as we do not, in this country, have a viable market for allowing potential claimants (i.e. all members of the public) to insure against the risk of suffering a loss due to someone else’s actions, and having to incur the cost of pursuing a claim. As a result, whereas defendants are, in many cases, able to spread the cost of becoming involved in a dispute, claimants are unable to do so.

Unless commercially appropriate “before the event” insurance becomes widely available, the only way to spread the costs of the litigation process in a way that is financially manageable for those involved, is for those costs to be borne primarily by those who are able to stand together, as opposed to those who necessarily stand alone.

Dominic Djangoly, Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, has recently announced that a government consultation on the Jackson Report will take place in the autumn, with a view to addressing the “high costs” of civil litigation. It is to be hoped that any action which is taken as a result of that consultation focuses on reducing the cost of litigation as a whole, rather than simply shifting the burden of those costs away from insurers, and onto members of the public.

David Pryce is a partner at Fenchurch Law LLP, which specialises in professional negligence claims and insurance coverage disputes.

T 020 7947 4019 E info@fenchurchlaw.co.uk

Our Birmingham office recently acted on behalf of a major financial client in project managing and supervising part of a substantial office building in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Ashley Harper explains our role .

The majority of the building was sublet to a longstanding commercial occupier and the client’s brief was to subdivide the remaining vacant parts of the property so that smaller office suites could be formed, which would be more attractive to the local office market.

This project was particularly complex as it involved careful negotiation with existing occupiers to ensure that their quiet enjoyment was not adversely affected, whilst at the same time ensuring that the requirements of an incoming tenant were met and that the premises they were taking were ready on time for them to take occupation.

Careful liaison with Statutory Authorities including Building Control was necessary, as the premises did not easily lend themselves to further subdivision, due to their constructional form. Our negotiations led to agreement of the proposals.

Considerable difficulties were encountered in relation to building services, which ran between the various parts of the property, and their successful adaptation to suit the incoming tenant.

By careful negotiation with all interested parties and careful use of “out of hours” working, we were able to ensure that the project was completed satisfactorily without adverse interruption to the day-to-day activities of existing tenants.

This project showed us, once again, that there are many challenges that are encountered when working within occupied commercial premises and it is crucial, at all times, to take into account the needs of all stakeholders and interested parties in a property.

At the same time as supervising contact works, we were also involved in dilapidations negotiations and liaison with letting agents, as well as supporting Solicitors in obtaining appropriate consents from the superior landlord.

For further information contact: Ashley Harper at our Birmingham office T 0121 454 1688 E aharper@calfordseaden.co.uk

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CENTRAL MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL Network Housing Group acquired this site in Park Royal, London, to provide keyworker accommodation to achieve Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4. Jo Parody talks us through our involvement in this innovative project. calfordseaden are acting as employer's agent and CDM coordinator also providing sustainability, flood risk and M&E advice for this project on behalf of Network Housing Group. The design required significant input by calfordseaden to manage conflicting requirements in this difficult market of shared ownership sales, intermediate and social rent as well as planners and health trust expectations regarding doctors, staff and student accommodation requirements.

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SUSTAINABLE HOUSING AWARDS FINALIST The sustainable design aims to maximise the use of natural systems, thus minimising the impact of the development on resources.

This 11 storey high landmark building comprises a mix of 66 one bedroom, 64 two bedroom and 15 three bedroom family apartments and maisonettes, eight of which are adaptable to wheelchair standards.

All dwellings have private amenity space and access to communal roof terraces. The provision of a 78 bay car park, 147 cycle bays, landscaped areas and a children’s play area will also be included.

The use of concrete framed construction and the extensive use of brick as a building material will increase the thermal mass of the development, thus reducing the building’s reaction to temperature change. It is proposed that space heating and hot water will be delivered using a site-wide communal energy network with heat metering in each dwelling.

All materials specified for the development have been chosen for their sustainable credentials.

Proud of his shortlisted entry as “Green Social Housing Champion” for 2009, Terry Keech is looking to go one better this year, continuing to make a major contribution to the delivery and promotion of sustainable housing.

For the second year running calfordseaden's sustainability expert, Terry Keech, has been shortlisted in the Green Social Housing Champion of the Year category of The Sustainable Housing Awards 2010.

RECENT AWARDS Some of our award winning schemes include:

BERMONDSEY SPA Winner of best regeneration award - London Evening Standard New Homes Awards Joint winner of best new place to live - RTPI Awards

STONEBRIDGE ESTATE The awards, held by Inside Housing magazine and its sister publication Sustainable Housing, focus on the best ‘green’ social housing projects constructed in the UK and the organisations responsible for them.

Ted Stevens, Inside Housing's events director, and the organiser of the awards said: "We've had a terrific response, with hundreds of entries and Terry Keech of calfordseaden has done brilliantly to get shortlisted from such a huge field."

The awards ceremony will take place on Friday 22nd October, so hopefully we will be able to announce Terry’s success as winner later this year!

For more information please contact:

For further information contact:

Jo Parody at our Orpington office T 01689 888222 E jparody@calfordseaden.co.uk

Terry Keech at our Orpington office T 01689 888222 E tkeech@calfordseaden.co.uk

Overall winner and best regeneration award at RICS Awards

EMMAUS HAMPSHIRE Shortlisted in the completed Live/Work Homeless Community category at Housing Design Awards

TOWNSEND STREET Shortlisted in projects category at Housing Design Awards

HOATHDOWN HOUSE, PEACEHAVEN Shortlisted for best community development and best partnership at LABC South East Building Excellence Awards

TANDLE VIEW COURT, ROYTON Shortlisted for best community development at LABC North West Building Excellence Awards

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CONGRATULATIONS We are delighted to share the news that we have a British Weightlifting Champion among us.

Richard Williams, one of our Assistant Building Surveyors became the British weightlifting Champion in the 85kg class on 26th June.

Richard started weightlifting and competing seriously about four years ago when his coach, who is an Olympic and Commonwealth games medallist encouraged him into the sport.

Amongst his other achievements Richard won the English Championships and British Championships in 2009 in the 94kg weight class and competed in a large international team competition last year, where England were beaten into 2nd place by Russia.

Richard hopes to progress to the level where he can represent England at the World Championships and Olympic Games.

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