Goodrich Consulting - Education Brochure 2023

OUR EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

OVERVIEW OF GOODRICH

FOR OVER 30 YEARS, GOODRICH CONSULTING HAS BEEN DELIVERING EXCEPTIONAL CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANCY TO CLIENTS ACROSS THE UK

Founded in 1992, the company has grown from strength to strength, seeing the team expand at its Northampton headquarters, and more recently the acquisition of a Birmingham and Bristol office. The owner-managed firm is led by six Partners, supported by an experienced team of project managers, project surveyors, building surveyors, and technical administrators.

For us, our team is what sets us apart, alongside our commitment to delivering an outstanding service on every project we work on. With expertise from both client and contractor backgrounds, our workforce ranges in experience levels which enables us to fit the right team for your job.

We aim to provide our clients with dedicated experts to support the smooth and successful delivery of your vision, from conception to completion and beyond, through the following core service lines:

• Project Management

• Employer’s Agent

• Quantity Surveying

• Building Consultancy

• Principal Designer

Reliability and flexibility are key to any successful project, which is why we adopt a forwardthinking, proactive approach to our work, supported by our industry knowledge, ongoing research and benchmarking of current market trends.

In addition to our core services noted above, we also offer the following supplemental services:

• Life Cycle Assessments / Costing

• Clerk of Works, or Quality Monitoring

• Fund Monitoring

• Facilities and Property Management

We are proud to have developed strong repeat partnerships with our clients, some of which span over the 30 years we have been in business. Our enviable position as experts within industrial, commercial, and education sectors has enabled our entry into new areas such as retail, later living, infrastructure, hotel, and occupier fit-out. Our people and portfolio of work allow us to provide invaluable insight across a variety of industry sectors.

2. OUR CORE OFFERING

Project Management

We have an incredibly strong team of experienced project managers, who are responsible for the successful delivery of your construction project. Working closely with our clients, the team are well equipped to organise, control, and monitor ongoing construction operations. In addition to our project management team, we have a strong and capable technical administration department, which ensures all crucial paperwork is completed. We pride ourselves on the hands-on leadership and guidance we offer, from pre-commencement to completion.

Quantity Surveying

The quantity surveying team’s strengths lie in their diverse backgrounds within client organisations, professional practice and contracting. This breadth of exposure enables us to offer broad skillsets and experience on all projects across our sectors.

Our technical administration department provides additional support to the surveying team, ensuring the work produced is issued promptly and of the highest quality.

With our team’s collective industry expertise, combined with a wealth of benchmarking data we acquire from our live projects, we can provide our clients with recommendations that accurately align with the changing business landscape.

In addition, we have access to RICS Membership, BCIS data, CostX measurement software and JCT online, whilst actively supporting quantity surveying apprenticeships with Nottingham Trent University, allowing us to continue onboarding new talent for the future of construction.

Employer’s Agent

As employer’s agent, we ensure the project is structured correctly and that the investment value of the scheme is protected. As well as representing our client, we will administer the contract and complete all appointments, warranties, and other key legal documents, alongside organising, chairing, and recording meetings / key events.

We are there to support, advise and organise our clients. Depending on the requirement the role will be fulfilled by one of our senior project managers or project surveyors, with backup support from the wider technical team.

Principal Designer

As a business, we have invested heavily in training key members of the project management team as principal designers. As members of the APS, Association for Project Safety, we are competent in influencing how risks to health and safety are managed throughout the project.

When appointed as project managers on a scheme, we can extend our appointment to include principal designers where required.

Building Consultancy

The breadth of experience within our professional team means that we have worked across all property sectors, which allows us to provide our clients with detailed and reliable advice across the full property life cycle.

We understand our client’s requirements, working seamlessly to provide proactive advice on a range of technical issues, including acquisition surveys and fund monitoring reporting, technical due diligence, landlord and tenant dilapidations claims, planned preventative maintenance, party wall matters, together with building refurbishment and fit out project management and contract administration services for projects of all shapes and sizes.

It is our professional team’s experience, knowledge, understanding and logical, lateral thinking that affords us the ability to provide the accurate, timely and focused advice our clients expect.

WE UNDERSTAND OUR CLIENT’S REQUIREMENTS, WORKING SEAMLESSLY TO PROVIDE PROACTIVE ADVICE ON A RANGE OF TECHNICAL ISSUES

Data Analysis

Our team regularly extract cost information from our current projects based on the contract data, which allows us to highlight trends and gain a clearer picture of projections and averages based on £sq. ft GIA, and provide a percentage breakdown of costs based on the different elements of the build.

With around 8 million sq. ft analysed so far and a combined job value of £0.5 billion, we have provided cost advice on a wide variety of building types ranging from £100k to £100m, and everything in between.

This insight helps our precision with cost analysis by using the real-time data we harvest.

WITH THE BUSINESS LANDSCAPE CONSTANTLY CHANGING, WE UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF PROVIDING OUR CLIENTS WITH ACCURATE COST PROJECTIONS

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

Life Cycle Assessments / Costing

Life-Cycle Costing (LCC) and Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the analysis of the potential environmental impacts of our building elements during their life cycle. LCA and LCC are rapidly becoming the standard method for the long-term cost appraisal of buildings and civil infrastructure projects. Demonstrating the value for money and environmental impact over the long term is an essential tool our team can offer for those involved in the design, construction, operation, and risk analysis of construction projects.

Quality Monitoring

We recognise the importance of quality when it comes to building. That’s why we have a mix of experts, many with building surveying and on-site backgrounds, who are placed to provide a constructive view on the quality and appropriateness of your built asset as the works progress.

Fund Monitoring

We have provided fund monitoring services to Barwood Capital, NatWest, Octopus and Handelsbanken for a variety of building projects. We are practical and realistic, providing guidance and advice as the project progresses from the agreement of funding through to completion.

Facilities and Property Management

We can care for your asset as part of our facilities and property management services, in a way that suits your business.

Covering all services from a soft-landing handover to operators and occupiers, management and provision of all hard and soft facilities services to the asset and occupiers, management of all operational health and safety compliance, budget and financial management, and reactive services management.

Our consultative services available include property operating budgets, services charge advice, operating lifecycle plans and operational best practice advice.

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OUR CLIENTS

5. Environmental Social Governance

At Goodrich, we realise that we need to be strategic about our social responsibility and raise awareness of our individual and collective impact on the planet.

By being a part of Planet Mark and collating key data on our business, we can access invaluable insight to understand the effect of our carbon footprint and identify critical areas where we can make improvements. From the knowledge we gain, we can make decisions that positively influence our future actions allowing continuous improvements to be made across the business and within our community.

As a company, we are working hard to reduce our footprint, because we know it’s the right thing to do. Our aim is to continue to take proactive steps forward to drive a positive change for both our planet and society to help build a brighter future for all.

Our social value is measured across three main categories:

Our People

Developing skills for the future, equality, health, safety & wellbeing

Our Planet

Climate change, land use, nature loss, freshwater availability

Prosperity

Innovation, employment generation, community, and social vitality

Over the next year as we grow and develop as a business, we have targeted ourselves to work towards achieving a 5% reduction in our total and individual carbon footprint.

Our teams have also been tasked with suggesting ideas to support local communities, schools and charities, and so far, we have managed to donate over £7,000 to worthy causes across the country.

AS A COMPANY, WE ARE WORKING HARD TO REDUCE OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT, BECAUSE WE KNOW IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO

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Sector overview

Education Sector

Our involvement with the education sector spans over 25 years, working with a number of schools across the country. Private schools offer us a breath of fresh air with the wide and varied challenges they bring. The sector offers us the opportunity to work on a wide variety of interesting and exciting projects, ranging from teaching blocks to innovation centres, sixth form refurbishments to Astro pitch replacements and even competition swimming pools.

Whilst no two jobs are ever the same, we fully understand the needs of our clients, in particular, cost certainty, accurate time management and VAT reporting; safeguarding and protecting the schools’ reputation and external image.

CASE STUDY

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Bedford Girls’ School, Sixth Form Common Room and Café Refurbishment Project

The Harpur Trust

The spaces were converted back in 2005 and were in need of a refresh as the common room had slowly developed into an uninspiring corridor. The area itself felt dark with a miss match of furniture and fittings, and little connection to the inner garden courtyard. The café was underutilised due to a lack of cooking facilities, with students preferring to use local shops for lunch. We developed the brief with the school with these key design drivers in mind

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Jean-Marc

Cardington Road, Bedford

We had a strict project limit of £550,000 including fees, planning costs, equipment, furniture, building works and VAT

We had the 6 weeks during the summer break to deliver the scheme

The post-pandemic economy was a serious consideration on this scheme, and the team had concerns about furniture and equipment availability, along with contractor interest and availability. Therefore, we brought in specialist furniture and catering advisors and recommended early contractor involvement from October 2021. We also advised on placing orders for the furniture, café servery, equipment and bifold doors at the earliest opportunity. The sector demanded negotiation, and the school managed to gain agreement from the charity board. Securing this flexibility was a key decision in the successful delivery of this scheme.

A short delivery programme is always a key consideration on school projects, so we arranged for the asbestos, structural and services inspections during the half-term break.

One of the most important aspects was that the project cost was immovable on this scheme and therefore our estimating, contractor negotiation and postcontract cost control had to be accurate. Due to our team’s efforts, the project came in just under budget and, most importantly, met the client’s brief fully.

“I like working with professionals like Goodrich Consulting. The project was very well managed.”

Hodgkin Bursar

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Northampton School for Boys, Leisure Centre

Northampton School for Boys

The project consisted of a new build swimming pool and health and fitness suite

Billing Road, Northampton

£4.2 million

57 weeks

• The project was developed with low running costs in mind. The new pool and water treatment plant is tier 1 in terms of quality, therein reducing the cost of maintaining the facility

• The swimming pool is a 2-metre-deep competition pool with a 9-metrelong movable floor

• The scheme also included a dance studio, fitness suite, entrance foyer and a variety of changing areas

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Marymount International School, New Dining Hall and Kitchen

Marymount International School

The project involved the renovation of the existing kitchen, servery and extension to the Dining Hall and external areas

George Road, Surrey

£1.1 million

7 weeks (with preparations)

• Fast track project completed within 7 months from our appointment as Project Manager and Quantity Surveyor, including planning, investigations and construction

• The works required were extensive and created a much-improved environment for staff and students to enjoy

• External areas were provided with high-quality York Stone surfaces and landscaping features

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Bedford Girls’ School, Science Laboratories

Bedford Girls’ School

The conversion of under-utilised space and the refurbishment of existing science labs, creating STEM inspired learning space and an iCreate flexible learning area within a previously under-utilised locker area

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Cardington Road, Bedford

£1.5 million

6 weeks on site (with preparations)

• 5 chemistry laboratories, prep room, staff work room, Head of Science office, chemical store

• iCreate workspace with contemporary glass wall

• Large 9 LED screen display

• Early structural and Asbestos inspections and early enabling / preparation with specialist interior design input was crucial to the project’s success

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Refurbishment Project, Pilgrims School

The Harpur Trust

New pre-school building extension and refurbishment of the existing library and communal spaces

Brickhill Drive, Bedford

£2.7 million

40 weeks

• The project was completed in three phases and all the classrooms remained occupied throughout the build period

• The iconic glass lantern was retained and incorporated into the new build area, with the construction works being completed behind acoustic screens

• The design ensured that natural light was available to all new and existing internal spaces, through the use of roof lights and high level windows

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Performing Arts Centre, Stamford Endowed School

Stamford Endowed School

Refurbishment of the Performing Arts Centre and Assembly Hall

Stamford

£2 million

45 weeks

• Conversion of the existing gym into a Performing Arts Centre, which included a small single storey extension, full internal refurbishment and enhancing the current elevations with insulated render and timber fins

• The project also involved the refurbishment of the existing Assembly Hall, including the incorporation of retractable tiered seating