YOUR CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS
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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.
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.
Our team is what sets us apart, alongside our commitment to delivering an outstanding service on every project we work on. With expertise from client and contractor backgrounds, our workforce ranges in experience levels, enabling us to fit the right team for your job.
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Dilapidations
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Building Survey
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Licence to Alter
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Party Wall
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:
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Clerk of Works, or Quality Monitoring
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Fund Monitoring
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Facilities and Property Management
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Project Management
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Employer’s Agent
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Quantity Surveying
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Building Consultancy
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Principal Designer
In addition to our core services noted above, we also offer the following supplemental services:
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 in industrial, commercial, and education sectors has enabled us to enter new areas such as retail, retirement 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.
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OUR CORE OFFERING
Project Management
Quantity Surveying
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.
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.
WE UNDERSTAND OUR CLIENT’S REQUIREMENTS, WORKING SEAMLESSLY TO PROVIDE PROACTIVE ADVICE ON A RANGE OF TECHNICAL ISSUES Employer’s Agent
Building Consultancy
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.
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 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.
We understand our clients’ 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.
WITH THE BUSINESS LANDSCAPE CONSTANTLY CHANGING, WE UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF PROVIDING OUR CLIENTS WITH ACCURATE COST PROJECTIONS 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.
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ADDITIONAL SERVICES
Dilapidations
Licence to Alter
We work for both Landlords and Tenants, preparing schedules of dilapidations for Landlords and responding to schedules on behalf of Tenants. Our experienced team reviews all the legal documentation in preparing/responding to schedules, inspecting the demise for breaches under the terms of the lease and conducting negotiations to conclude the claim in accordance with the lease terms.
We will conduct a technical review of a tenant/occupier’s proposed works to assess the suitability of information received and compliance with Lease Terms or Covenants. Comment upon the impact on the structure and fabric of the property, and on the statutory and legal compliance of the proposed works. The report will also provide advice on reinstatement requirements to be considered for inclusion with any formal Licence to Alter.
We also provide consultancy advice on dilapidation strategies including assessment of liability and obligations in preparation of lease events.
Building Survey Our team of building consultants can carry out a detailed inspection and report on the structure and fabric of the property together with comments on the condition of the services, predominantly for the owner/occupiers. The report will also recommend additional specialist inspections and reports as required, i.e. services, environmental, deleterious materials, DDA, etc.
Party Wall We will manage negotiations on behalf of the building owner or adjoining owner of the terms and conditions applicable where works are affecting a party wall, having due regard to the Party Wall etc. Act 1996.
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.
4. OUR CLIENTS
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Environmental Social Governance
AS A COMPANY, WE ARE WORKING HARD TO REDUCE OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT, BECAUSE WE KNOW IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO 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.
Total carbon footprint
62.6 tCO2e *tCO2e – tonnes (t) of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent (e)
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.
Total carbon reduction
Carbon reduction per employee
5%
5%
3.1 tCO2e
0.1 tCO2e
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Case Studies
CASE STUDY Project Name:
Project Tesla
Client Name:
SEGRO plc / Ball Engineering
Project Details:
Full turnkey construction of a new 660,000 sq ft building to operate as a can making facility for Ball
Project Address:
Maynard Road, Burton Latimer, Northampton NN15 5ZS
Project Value:
£51 million
Contract Duration:
63 weeks
Key Facts:
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The building is split into four distinct areas which are the offices, the production hall, the storage area and the technical rooms. There are detailed / complex M&E installations throughout the manufacturing hall
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EPC A rated
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Close working with the occupier was required to provide infrastructure for their plant install machinery
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15 staged early access dates helped the occupier maintain the go live programme. Goodrich managed over £8 million worth of change requests for this project
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The technical rooms act to support the 24-hour can production operation and house equipment, spares and supplies
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Within the building there are a number of ATEX rated rooms that hold flammable liquids and specialist trenches and sumps to collect and hold liquid spillages
CASE STUDY Project Name:
Project Gray, Biggleswade
Client Name:
Co-op Supply and Logistics
Project Details:
Fit-out of 800,000 sq ft warehouse, office, separate vehicle maintenance unit, de-kit building, HGV wash and weigh station. This development comprised 64 dock bays, a freezer box of 80,000 sq ft, chill marshall, offices, restaurant and other welfare and office amenities; respecting the diverse workforce and the health and wellbeing of all employees.
Project Address:
Symmetry Park, Gold Road, Biggleswade
Project Value:
£33 million
Contract Duration:
35 weeks
Key Facts:
Office and welfare areas developed following WELL principles and cultural requirements of the diverse heritage of staff and workforce.
CASE STUDY Project Name:
The Arc, Snodland
Client Name:
Wrenbridge Land Limited, OBO LaSalle Asset Management and Coal Pension Properties
Project Details:
The project comprised the design and construction of four industrial units and two roadside offerings at the junction of the A228 and Peter’s Bridge, Holborough Road, Snodland. Industrial Units A and D are detached, Units B and C are semi-detached and all with integral offices, together with external works including parking and circulation areas, footpaths, drainage, and external lighting. The roadside offerings comprise a drivethru Costa Coffee and Mcdonald’s. The 4 industrial units total circa 122,000 sq ft (GIA’s) Unit A - 68,783 sq ft Unit B - 20,667 sq ft Unit C - 14,510 sq ft Unit D - 17,922 sq ft
Project Address:
Holborough Road, Snodland, Kent
Project Value:
£12 million
Contract Duration:
52 weeks
Key Facts:
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The Grade A units sit on an 8-acre site located to the north of Snodland Town Centre in a very prominent position, with direct access to the A228
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The units benefit from up-to-date modern amenities including car charging points and a pocket park to the south of the site
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The project has also achieved BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and an EPC ‘A’ rating
CASE STUDY Project Name:
Esmere Gardens, Moreton-in-Marsh
Client Name:
Taylor and Taylor Limited
Project Details:
A new build 60-bedroom residential care home, which is constructed over two floors and totalling 33,500 sq ft
Project Address:
Fosseway Farm, Stowe Road, Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0DS
Project Value:
£8.05 million
Contract Duration:
75 weeks
Key Facts:
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The care home has been built to strict Cotswold Planning Design Guidelines and features attractive, contemporary design together with the use of traditional Cotswold materials
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100% en-suite provision set over two floors within a 1.4 acre site with stunning views of the Cotswolds
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Extensive range of facilities including a café, dining rooms, a hairdresser, cinema lounge, resident lounges and informal seating areas
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21 car parking spaces with EV charging points available, directly accessed from Fosse Way
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Extensive landscaping with private gardens that fit into the local surroundings
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Adjacent sports and social facilities available for residents to join
CASE STUDY Project Name:
Residential Care Home and Extra Care Apartments, Shipston-on-Stour
Client Name:
Taylor & Taylor Shires
Project Details:
Design and construction of a new 70-bedroom care home and 11 Extra Care apartments
Project Address:
Tilemans Lane, Shipston-on-Stour
Project Value:
£6.4 million
Contract Duration:
70 weeks
Key Facts:
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The care home consists of a first-floor dementia unit and two separate extra care apartment blocks
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We carried out an extensive cost exercise to come up with cost-effective solutions to bring the inherited unaffordable proposal down in cost, saving our client 12% and allowing the development to go live
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The main features of the care home include a cinema room, a fine dining area, a spacious bar, and an activity room for knitting, arts and crafts etc. Residents at the care home also have an external raised terrace area for extra space
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The project has been completed to the highest standard without compromise
CASE STUDY Project Name:
Bedford Girls’ School, Sixth Form Common Room and Café Refurbishment Project
Client Name:
The Harpur Trust
Project Details:
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
Project Address:
Cardington Road, Bedford
Project Value:
We had a strict project limit of £550,000 including fees, planning costs, equipment, furniture, building works and VAT
Contract Duration:
We had the 6 weeks during the summer break to deliver the scheme
Key Facts:
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.
“I like working with professionals like Goodrich Consulting. The project was very well managed.” Jean-Marc Hodgkin Bursar
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.
CASE STUDY Project Name:
Northampton School for Boys, Leisure Centre
Client Name:
Northampton School for Boys
Project Details:
The project consisted of a new build swimming pool and health and fitness suite
Project Address:
Billing Road, Northampton
Project Value:
£4.2 million
Contract Duration:
57 weeks
Key Facts:
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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
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The swimming pool is a 2-metre-deep competition pool with a 9-metrelong movable floor
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The scheme also included a dance studio, fitness suite, entrance foyer and a variety of changing areas
CASE STUDY Project Name:
Base Build Monitoring and Fit-Out of Customer Fulfilment Centre, Purfleet
Client Name:
Ocado
Project Details:
Fit-out of a newly built warehouse, including construction of mezzanine floors, M&E, refrigeration services, internal partitions and division walls, office fitout, lifts, protection, fuelling facilities, vehicle wash and associated builders’ work
Project Address:
Purfleet Road, Aveley, Essex
Project Value:
£70 million
Contract Duration:
60 weeks (Base Build and Fit-Out)
Key Facts:
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Ocado new automated Fulfilment Centre
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BREEAM ‘Excellent’
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Works completed in May 2021
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Design Team consisted of Goodrich, Architects Ashton Smith Associates, Fairhurst (Civil & Structural Engineers) and MBA Consulting Engineers on the building services
CASE STUDY Project Name:
SmartParc, Infrastructure
Client Name:
SEGRO
Project Details:
The scheme involves the construction of 9 new building plots totalling two million sq ft across a brown field site of over 100 acres. The works involved extensive road infrastructure, footpaths, below ground services including utilities, drainage and DH&C pipework and various forms of highway works.
Project Address:
Spondon, Derby DE21 7BS
Contract Duration:
125 weeks
Key Facts:
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The infrastructure includes the installation of District Heating and Cooling to provide energy efficiencies to all plots on the park Significant offsite utility reinforcement works Significant Highways works including liaising with Highways England
CASE STUDY Project Name:
Enabling and Infrastructure, Bristol
Project Details:
The site is a new industrial/distribution development located in Bristol, extending to 65 acres.
Project Value:
£10-£15 million
Contract Duration:
15 months
Key Facts:
The works aim to secure viability for future development. The site will offer a variety of unit sizes ranging from 133,438 - 584,361 sq ft within three separate phases. Future development to achieve BREEAM rating ‘Excellent’. Goodrich was appointed to commission and manage the early-stage enabling works. These include: •
Ecology Mitigation: Reptile clearance and establishment of a suitable receiver zone
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Public Right Of Way (PRoW) Diversion: Management of the design and application process
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Archaeological Investigations: Archaeological geophysical survey and follow-on evaluation that comprised 112no trenches. The survey work identified a significant level of interest and required a programme of strip, map and sample excavation across the site to remove any future development constraint within the boundary
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Rhine Diversion and Water Vole Translocation: Diversion of a surface water flood rhine to maximise the developable area, including securing permissions from Natural England and translocation of water voles
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Electrical Infrastructure Upgrade: Management of the application process and provision of a new 10MVA primary sub-station
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Foul Water Pump Station and Rising Main: Management of the S104 technical and legal applications to secure a new foul water connection for the development site
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Site Clearance and Upfilling: Procuring civil design and contractor appointment to undertake a package of site strip, disposal and upfilling to provide a suitable load-bearing plateau for future development
CASE STUDY Project Name:
Bicester Gateway
Client Name:
Bloombridge Development Partners
Project Details:
12 ‘Knowledge Economy’ Units in Use Class E. 14,972 m2 (161,157 sq ft)
Project Address/ Postcode:
Bicester Gateway, Oxfordshire OX 25 2PA
Project Value:
£20 million
Contract Duration:
The project is currently Pre-Contract. The planning decision was received on the 11th of November 2022.
Key Facts:
The proposals specifically target the Knowledge Economy market with specific features of the buildings, including: •
Enhanced elevational treatments
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Increased power supply
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Planning for flues/louvres to be obtained with the base build application
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A higher percentage of base build office space
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A roof level plant deck with capacity for Cat B plant to suit a laboratory occupier
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BREEAM ‘Excellent’
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Standalone swift tower to suit the local ecology, without compromising the appearance of the buildings
CASE STUDY Project Name:
Clinical upgrades at the Cliftonville Campus
Client Name:
St Andrew’s Healthcare
Project Details:
This was a fast-track programme refurbishment of existing specialist mental health units within the Cliftonville campus whilst in occupation
Project Address:
Cliftonville, Northampton
Project Value:
£1.5 million
Contract Duration:
Fast-track within an occupied unit
Key Facts:
We provided project and cost management services on this fast-track refurbishment project. Whilst the work itself was relatively simple, the products and specification of the material were highly sensitive. This, alongside the occupied nature of the unit, made the project complex and a challenge to deliver within the parameters set. Despite this complexity, we managed the scheme through to a successful completion with R G Carter as the general builder.
CASE STUDY Project Name:
Letchworth Gateway
Client Name:
Aberdeen Asset Management
Project Details:
Construction of a new Aldi supermarket, Travelodge hotel, McDonald’s and coffee drive-thru.
Project Address:
Ave One, Letchworth Garden City
Project Value:
£8.6 million
Contract Duration:
66 weeks
Key Facts:
The project incorporated a single-storey Aldi supermarket and a three-storey hotel operated by Travelodge, providing 73 bedrooms comprising 36 family rooms, 33 double rooms and four accessible rooms. The ground floor level of the hotel also houses a breakfast space for guests in a small bar area. The scheme involved a single-storey restaurant/drive-thru unit operated by McDonald’s Restaurants and a coffee shop with a drive-thru facility.
CASE STUDY Project Name:
iFLY London
Client Name:
iFLY Indoor Skydiving Ltd
Project Details:
iFLY at The O2
Project Address:
O2 Arena, Drawdock Road, North Greenwich, SE10 0BB
Project Value:
£5.5 million
Contract Duration:
55 weeks
Key Facts:
The new wind tunnel is the fourth indoor skydiving facility built and operated in the United Kingdom by iFLY. It is the first of the new generation 9 tunnels to be built in the UK and the most powerful to date. The entrance/reception area incorporate a licensed bar to entertain flyers and those attending events at the O2. iFLY was granted a licence that enables them to operate the wind tunnel late into the evening, to provide an exhilarating experience for visitors and concert/event goers.
CASE STUDY Project Name:
New Build Retail Park, Travis Perkins
Client Name:
Travis Perkins
Project Details:
Construction of a Travis Perkins Branch and new build retail park
Project Address:
Marsh Barton Industrial Estate, Exeter
Project Value:
£3,966,464
Contract Duration:
47 weeks
Key Facts:
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The site was previously occupied by a large printing company which covered virtually the entire area of the site. A large-scale demolition and remediation project had to be undertaken to prepare the site for redevelopment
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Due to the flooding risk in this part of Exeter, a wide variety of flood prevention measures were included in the build works
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Given the shared boundary with two motor dealerships, the works needed to be undertaken in a careful and thoughtful manner to avoid disruption
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