Client: Stoke on Trent College, Project: Caring Centre of Excellence, Value: £11m
Education providers face challenging and ambitious targets to achieve high standards while effectively managing finances. These challenges are reflected in the needs that they have when procuring construction work, refurbishment and maintenance in terms of achievement of best value, access to available sources of funding and consideration of alternative methods of procurement such as PFI and PPP.
Our Education Team understand that facilities delivered must:
- be modern, flexible and use space effectively
- remain relevant to the education provided and to predicted changes in demand
- incorporate technology
- encourage participation within the local community and beyond facilitate closer links with other educational establishments and with local business
- incorporate careful programming of works to minimise disruption and exploit vacation periods
Our Education Team provides a professional construction consultancy service for all types of facility and forms of procurement. We work closely with estates teams in schools, colleges and universities to manage new build projects, extensions, refurbishment and maintenance works. Our service targets certainty of programme and the achievement of best value, both within the initial budget and over the lifetime of your investment. Our approach is based upon a desire to:
- improve overall project delivery through good co-operation, effective communication and good design information
- minimise construction time through improved project planning and problem resolution
- achieve reductions in project costs through continuous improvement
- improve cost certainty through cost planning and early identification of risks
- enhance value for Clients through the use of value engineering, risk management and a focus on buildability issues
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