High Wycombe Leisure Centre

Buckinghamshire

Client
Wycombe District Council
Contractor
Value
£39m
Completion Date
January 2016

The Challenge

In 2009, Buckinghamshire Council adopted a sports facility strategy that recommended the support of a new stadium and sports hub, along with the development of a new sports centre for High Wycombe, replacing a facility that had served the local community for four decades. Over the years the centre expanded, and many hundreds and thousands of people used it.

One of the issues with the existing gym was that there wasn’t much room to fit many people in, which would make them feel cramped and was limiting membership growth.

The existing leisure centre continued to operate throughout this project which meant the new one had to be delivered without impacting the operations. There were access difficulties at the original leisure centre’s existing car park and to reduce the loss of parking capacity at the existing site, works accelerated on the car park which helped release 100 spaces four months early.

The Solution

In order to make the project a success, it was essential that the design and construction teams worked collaboratively, particularly when building the Olympic size swimming pool.

The new design for the gym has been a significant improvement, providing lots of natural light due to the high ceilings and open spaces which also creates more room for people to exercise in.

The Results

Since opening the centre in 2016 opened there has been a real sense of excitement in the local area. The 10,750m2 rectangular sports centre is one of the biggest sports facilities in the South East

Members and staff can enjoy the exciting new facilities such as a 150 station gym, indoor cycling studio, 50 metre competition pool, 12 badminton court sports hall, steam room and sauna and more. Since opening, the centre doubled its number of memberships from 2000 to 4000.

360 training weeks

Apprentices

£250,000.

SME Spend

£5,000,000.

Added Value

8.3

Client Satisfaction

Client Testimonials

“The swimming pool caters for everyone, from elite athletes right the way through the community and teaching beginners of all ages to swim is tremendous. Around the country, swimming facilities are very, very expensive to run so when I heard the leisure centre was moving, the concern was that a lot of councils are doing away with swimming pools. The centre shows the commitment Wycombe has put into the community. The Sports centre, old and new, is much more than elite athletes, we do have athletes training here that will be in Rio in a few months time and that is a great thing, but it is about getting the community active and involved and the number of clubs involved here is incredible.”

Sir Steve RedgraveOlympic Rowing Legend

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Contractor Performance | Commitments

SCF Framework Manager

James Wright

Email: james.wright@hants.gov.uk

Phone: 07761330560

Contractor Framework Manager

Guy Dawes

Email: guy.dawes@willmottdixon.co.uk

Phone: 07794218011

Torbay Hospital – Devon

May 4, 2018/in Fire, Police and Health Services Block, Brick, Health, Steel/by Andrew Real

Critical Care Unit, Torbay Hospital – New Build

Torquay, Devon

Project Details

Client
South Devon Healthcare
NHS Foundation Trust

Project Manager
South Devon Healthcare
NHS Foundation Trust

Architect
Avanti

Contractor
Interserve

Value
£9.1m

Contract Period
90 weeks

Procurement Type
Design & Construct

Form of Contract
NEC (Option A)
with activity schedules

Size
2625m2

Local SME’s employed
60% within 30 miles
20% within 60 miles
20% over 60 miles

Project Brief

This major investment project for the hospital delivered a 14-bed Critical Care Unit that has all the associated technology and equipment required to provide a modern, patient focused environment. A dedicated facility for relatives recognises the emotional effect on families and friends that can occur when loved ones are in hospital. This is transforming the delivery of care for patients, visitors and staff.

A warm and inviting new main entrance was built with pleasant waiting and café areas, a shop and additional public amenities. A new health and wellbeing zone offers the opportunity for advice, support and carer liaison services.

The project was delivered on a very busy hospital site and adjacent to the Accident and Emergency department. The building has been designed and constructed with the future capability of extending upwards to provide an additional two ward floors.

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“Teamwork has been the essence of our project, we’ve worked together on creative problem solving, value engineering, involving the clinicians, the clinicians have all had the phone numbers of the Interserve team so have been able to ring them any time. The organisation could not be more pleased with the outcome, we’ve got a fantastic building, high quality, a fantastic outcome for the patients and it was delivered on time and within budget.”

Lesley Darke, Director of Estates and Commercial Development for Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Community Engagement

Key Challenges

A 23 week enabling phase included extensive intrusive surveys, services diversions (telecoms, water, steam main), bus stop relocation, and the demolition of the existing shop and main entrance.

We relocated the main entrance of the hospital to Level 2 (instead of Level 4) temporarily whilst the works were carried out, this included redirection of traffic whilst ensuring the ambulance route remained free at all times.

Delivery on a busy hospital site.

All works were carried out in strict coordination with the Trust’s Estates department, and included consultation with stakeholders to implement logistics planning and out-of-hours working. Liaison with ward matrons to agree mitigation measures, i.e. infection prevention procedures, took place prior to works being undertaken. The welfare and absolute minimisation of disturbance to patients, visitors and hospital staff was of paramount importance throughout the contract programme.

Project Takeaways

Our Success

Open and honest collaborative team approach played a large part in the success of this project.
The access road passing the compound and to the main work site is an emergency blue route and therefore could not be obstructed at any time. The hospital complex is exceedingly busy and access roads are very narrow. Both of these points were always highlighted in orders placed with subcontractors, again repeated via phone calls to the subcontractors and through site inductions. A traffic management plan was circulated to suppliers, timed deliveries were put in place, non-critical materials were delivered to compound, a lay by for lorry waiting was put in place, we had banksman supervision and there was no parking on the road with contractor parking in the compound only.

Our Learnings

A more robust solution in terms of floor screeds could have improved the building.

Value Added

The Framework processes put in place enabled a quality on time delivery.
£9.1 million facility

KPI’s & Statistics

Contract	Gateway 3 Contract Formation	Gateway 4 Final Account	Variation
Cost	£8,813,488	£9,912,651	£1m – change in glazed screens with integral blinds
Time	3/2/17	24/2/17	3 weeks due to a large void being found during enabling works.

Average CCS Score: 41
Cost per sqm: £3445

Contact:
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Surrey Police – Salfords

May 4, 2018/in Fire, Police and Health Services Block, Brick, Office, Police, Steel/by Gabby Stevens

Surrey Police – Salfords