Daedalus Enterprise Zone was designated as one of 11 initial enterprise zones around the country by the central Government. The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) owned most of the land and ran a programme for the regeneration of Daedalus along with the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Partnership for Urban South Hampshire (PUSH). Fareham Borough Council took ownership from the HCA that rest within the district of FBC.
In 2014/15 Fareham Borough Council constructed an Innovation Centre for new businesses, with Oxford Innovation assistance to provide business support services, enabling nurture and development. Due to the success of that building, a business case supported the construction of a Phase 2 extension.
The new extension consists of the construction of a two and three storey steel frame with associated external hard and soft landscaping, providing a range of office and workshop spaces for local businesses as well as additional space within the Enterprise Zone.
100% payment within 30 days terms
100% timber responsibly sourced
Zero RIDDORs
18 beneficiaries
Soft landings for handover
Dedicated Morgan Sindall point of contact
On-line portal for notifying any defects with 3 priority categories for response times
Any site specific process/initiatives
Email: james.wright@hants.gov.yk
Phone: 07761 330560
Email: alan.smedley@morgansindall.com
Phone: 07967 686066
London
Client
The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime
Contractor
Morgan Sindall
Value
£24.36m
Contract Period
75 weeks
Complete refurbishment of 120,000 sq-ft Police station, in 3 phases whilst in occupation. Key to the project was to maintain all services whilst the custody suites and office areas remain occupied. Refurbishment including all new mechanical and electrical installations, new raised floors, IT, security, lifts, raised floors, ceiling, joinery, toilets together with renovation of roof, windows, doors, repair and replacement of render and external redecoration. New air-conditioning plant was installed at the ground floor with the creation of a plant enclosure in the central courtyard as a solution because we were not allowed to use cranes to lift plant.
Fair Payment Charter
Sustainable Development Charter
Health & Safety Charter
Legacy Charter
Handover & Aftercare Contractor Promise
Whilst on site, the project team were involved in a bake off raising over £1,000 towards the Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity.
Working in live police station
Working in a live police station with the busiest custody in Europe with 2 armouries that Police need to have constant daily access to allow them to load ammunition and guns to guard prominent buildings in the capital. We had to coordinate with vans with up to 80 prisoners a week being unloaded and loaded in into the courtyard being delivered to the custody suite, whilst keeping the area safe secure for all.
To manage the security levels and keep a fast programme of works, there was a high level of communication and awareness of the police requirements. There was a daily, sometimes hourly, dialog to understand each other’s needs; we had to listen and be flexible and sensitive to the requirements of the Police, sometimes changing the programme to suit operational needs.
We divided the building into sections where the Overbury workforce were not allowed so the Police could carry on policing unhindered.
Deliveries logistics
Working in central London with close proximity to many cafes bars restaurants with no available parking for visitors’ and operatives’ cars, and no unloading area for deliveries.
To manage the deliveries, we needed a phone notification from drivers of delivery lorries whose arrival was imminent, this was taken by our logistics team who either took in the delivery or alerted the subcontractor, so an efficient unload was carried out and materials stacked away promptly to point of work.
We let all the surrounding businesses know who we were with programmes and contact names and mobiles numbers.
There was a high level complaint to the Police and Council regarding construction work causing noise and dust affecting their business, this was caused by another contractor who was working nearby. We met the manager of the restaurant and developed a good relationship with her and helped them continue their business once more with advice and meetings.
Site office location
We needed an area for site office set up and access onto site. We didn’t have an area available inside Charing Cross for site offices and we couldn’t put cabins on the pavement or roof. Westminster Council didn’t allow cabins outside a construction zone so special permission was sought to another solution.
We formed a scaffold all the way around the building with a gantry for cabins which held the site offices, canteen, toilets, meeting rooms, subcontractor office, and changing rooms. We built a security point so we could check all our workforce in and out. The entrance to the workplace was through windows in our secured areas.
Our Success
Our Learnings
Value Added
Contract | Gateway 2 Planning | Gateway 3 Contract Agreement | Variation | Gateway 4 Handover | Variation |
Cost | £23,519,050 | £22,708,452 | -£811,000 | £24,372,709 | £1,664,338 |
Time | 80 weeks | 72 weeks | -8 weeks | 68 weeks | -4 weeks |
Contact: Alan Smedley, Framework Manager
Email: alan.smedley@morgansindall.com
A new build four-storey steel frame building which includes two sports halls, three fitness studios, a health and well-being gym, a strength and conditioning high-performance gym and high-quality teaching facilities on a live university campus. The scheme also includes underground car parking.
The ambitious vision for the University was to create a new sports facility to improve and modernise the University’s offering and enable excellence in sport, health and fitness related degree programmes and associated teaching and research for staff, students and the local community.
The seminar and gym areas of the sports complex are fitted with 20mm soft joints between the room floor slabs. These help to isolate them and significantly reduce the vibration that passes through them. In the weight training area, they went a step further and introduced a cast in-situ reinforced concrete sprung floor. This innovation means that the sports hall can be enjoyed by everyone, no matter what activity they are involved in.
The iconic cladding system to the tower block represents the former use of the site with historical maps – a subtle presence in the perforation in the cladding system next to the standout face brickwork wrapping the sports halls. The building has provided a head turning modern build in Southampton’s old city centre.
The city centre project was constructed within a 86 week programme, delivering a four-storey sports complex with state-of-the-art gyms for both student and staff use. Along the stacked tower block of gyms and studios, the project had two full sized sports halls; one for multi-use catering for over 13 different sports, the other was dedicated to basketball, allowing Student Kestrels, the university’s leading sports team, a home court. Below the sports halls, basement parking was provided for staff, students and the public as well as accessible parking bays.
The project is a visually stunning, flagship sports facility which is enhancing Solent University’s offering in advanced sports degree courses, and it is already attracting more students to the local area and inspiring people to take part in sport.
100% payment within 30 days terms
99% waste diverted from landfill
100% timber responsibly sourced
Zero RIDDORs
CCS Score 44/45
36 No of SMEs
59 beneficiaries
18 jobs created & 184 trainee weeks
Schools’ engagement: 577 students
£3,046 donations to charity & 1,845 volunteer hours
84% social value created
Soft landings for handover
Dedicated Morgan Sindall point of contact
On-line portal for notifying any defects with
3 priority categories for response times
Email: james.wright@hants.gov.uk
Phone: : 07761 330560
Email: alan.smedley@morgansindall.com
Phone: 07967 686066
Client
Exeter Science Park Limited
Project Manager
NPS
Architect
LHC
Contractor
Kier Construction
Value
£5.7m
Contract Period
52 weeks
Form of Contract
NEC Option A
Size
17000 sqft (divided into two) & 10,000 sqft
The design and construction of two new science buildings in the heart of Exeter. The construction consists of a new build steel framed structure, concrete planks for floor, façade treatments carrying from curtain walling, brickwork and fenestration.
Industrial units with CAT A fit out allow for tenant’s own design.
Space efficient
Extremely space efficient buildings. Built without compromise to a tightly defined budget, yet they’ve achieved an excellent 85% net-to-gross floor area.
Designed with carefully placed cores and primary circulation space which does not reduce the usable area. Flexible floorplans, easily divide-able with vital services already located for whichever configuration is adopted.
Flexibility
Since the users may have limited-time tenancies in the buildings, the space provides a significant degree of flexibility during its life to allow the building to be subdivided in a number of configurations/uses and offering everything from a single-occupier double-storey unit of 1600 sqm to 12 single-storey units of 200 sqm each.
Detached unit with the following features:
The Grow-on spaces are the first stand-alone B1(b) Research and Development units on the Park, providing flexible accommodation options for office and/or laboratory use.
The new build facility aimed at users who have progressed beyond the initial research stages of business, and now require larger premises to develop further, whilst remaining within the Science Park campus and its environment of innovation.
The building can be delivered as either a detached standalone building or a terrace of units enabling greater flexibility, the specifications include: