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News 04 News in pictures 06 Connolly ‘delighted’ with CMYA win 07 Survey: Who owns project data? 08 Data: Stop-start covid recovery Opinion 10 Clients must lead on quality 11 Mark Beard on the clerk of works 12 Caroline Gumble on CMYA 13 Feedback: Readers’ views Art of Building 14 Photos from around the world CMYA 18 Overall winner and higher education 20 Primary education 21 Schools 22 Healthcare 23 Leisure 24 Public & Infrastructure 25 Office 26 Residential Under 10 Storeys 27 Residential Over 10 Storeys 14 28 President’s Award 30 Rising Stars
Infrastructure 32 HS2 sets the digital pace Dr Sonia Zahiroddiny explains 36 Tolent digs deep in Durham Milburngate challenges 40 Rewilding: biodiversity net gain New environmental legislation 42 Is this really the end for s106? The new national infrastructure levy
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BAM’s Bullring facade wrap BAM Construction has been appointed by Hammerson to renovate the iconic Selfridges in Birmingham’s Bullring. The work will see the building’s 16,000 aluminium disks removed, cleaned, restored and stored while the building’s facade is replaced. During the work, the building will be wrapped in a hoarding created by Birmingham artist Osman Yousefzada entitled The Dogtooth Flower.
Fulham FC riverside stand progresses Large sections of the steel frame for Fulham FC’s new Riverside stand have now been erected by contractor Buckingham. Work on the stand at Craven Cottage began in May last year and is scheduled to take two years to complete. The new two-tier structure, designed by architect Populous, will add 4,000 new seats, taking the stadium’s capacity to 29,600.
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Commercial rewilding looks set to benefit News story for CM? from the new Email [email protected] Environment Bill, p40
Deck installed on weathering steel bridge Steelwork on the first UK bridge to use a higher-strength grade of weathering steel has been installed. Engineering consulting group COWI is working with contractor Alun Griffiths on the construction of the 205m-long Carrington Bridge in Worcester, which converts the A4440 from single to dual carriageway. COWI said using the stronger grade of steel has reduced the total material quantity by 15%.
Robot in wind turbine ‘blade walk’ A six-legged robot has undertaken the world’s first ‘blade walk’ by a machine on an offshore wind turbine off the coast of Fife. The inspect-and-repair robot scaled blades at the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s 7MW Levenmouth Demonstration turbine. It is being developed under a £1m collaboration project between BladeBUG and ORE Catapult, part-funded by Innovate UK. Tideway tug fuelled by hydrogen-treated vegetable oil Construction materials for the Tideway super sewer project below the Thames in London are being transported down the river by a tug fuelled by low-emission vegetable oil. Tideway said the GPS Vincia vessel, which runs on Green D+ hydrogen-treated vegetable oil, offers a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
World’s biggest CO2-sucking plant Snake design Construction is underway on the world’s first for Chinese large-scale CO capture and storage plant in Iceland, 2 natural history which aims to remove 4,000 tonnes of museum CO2 from the atmosphere a year. The plant, called Orca, uses fans to suck in air and filter out some 90% Shenzhen’s new Natural History Museum in of its CO2, which is turned into carbonate minerals for storage underground. The plant will southeast China will be be powered by geothermal energy from ON Power, a winding, sinuous form one of the project’s partners. resembling a snake or a river, with a public park on its roof. Adjacent to the Yanzi Lake in the Pingshan district, the 42,000 sq m building has been designed by Copenhagen’s 3XN, multinational B+H and China’s Zhubo Design.
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a focus on driving it to be the best we Frank Connolly ‘delighted’ to possibly could do,” he explained. “We did lots of mock-ups for [architect] land construction’s top award Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. We knew exactly the standards that they Mace operations director announced as Construction Manager wanted and we aimed maybe even to of the Year at virtual ceremony organised by CIOB surpass those standards.” Connolly said it had always been “in the back of his mind” to enter the CMYAs, having worked with 2003 winner Malcolm Nelson at Laing O’Rourke, as well as with CIOB past president and 1983 winner Alan Crane, and 2014 winner Lee Hutchinson. He added that he saw it as crucial to uphold values such as quality and professionalism in his work, and that on the Centre Building project he had a team that shared those values. “You treat people the way you want to be treated, no matter who they are, and it all stems from there,” he said. “I do like to lead by example and that means you get into the detail, which is important. When I was a young man, an old boss used to say to us ‘always read the packet’. “If you have the right knowledge about what you are doing and you Mace operations director Frank presented at a virtual ceremony, Frank Connolly apply it, you get it right first time Connolly was “shocked and delighted” organised by the CIOB. receives his award and it breeds respect.” at the virtual CMYA to be named Construction Manager of Connolly said: “I was over the moon Finally, Connolly praised the ceremony from the Year 2020 for his work on Centre to get a gold medal and to then win the host TV presenter CIOB’s efforts for staging the Building for the London School of overall was a bit surreal. It was a shock George Clarke awards virtually. Economics. but I was amazed and delighted.” (centre) and CIOB He said: “The CIOB did a fantastic president Mark Connolly beat 60 other finalists He praised his team plus the client job of it. There were no glitches and Beard (left) in nine categories to win the award, and consultants he worked with on it was seamless and planned really also taking the gold medal in Higher the project. “From start to finish there well. The host George Clarke did a Education, as the awards were was a real camaraderie, teamwork and fantastic job too.” ●
Connolly’s tribute to departed friends and colleagues Construction Manager of the Year with Connolly on the Centre everything I have done over the he took his own life on 24 April 2019, Frank Connolly paid tribute to two Building, died on 29 March last 12 years,” Connolly said. aged just 48. friends and colleagues – Tony Brown 2020 from covid-19. Wiles, who also worked for Connolly said: “Chris was a super and Chris Wiles – who worked with “Tony was a key support for Mace, suffered a mental health construction manager. He knew him but recently passed away. me. We worked at Laing O’Rourke crisis. Despite receiving help and everything about concrete and was Brown, a structural engineer and then Mace together and he support from his GP, family and really diligent. I would just like him and design manager who worked has been instrumental in employer for anxiety and depression, and Tony to be remembered.”
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LEXiCON lives: The CPA’s Peter Caplehorn on harmonising product data, p44
Golden thread: ‘No clear consensus’ Resourcing worries on who owns project data over golden thread Some 79% of respondents to the CIOB survey finds industry professionals prefer CIOB/i3PT golden thread survey assigning data ownership responsibilities to other said it was not clear where to go parties rather than taking it on themselves for support, advice or resources about the issue. “There is a requirement for more Design stage % information and support and clear n The client definition on future mandates and 30 2 22 31 6 9 n The contractor requirements,” said one comment. Four-fifths of those surveyed were Construction stage % n The information confident in their own understanding author 28 45 10 4 6 7 n of the golden thread but only 45% The lead said the “appropriate people” within designer Operation stage % their organisation knew what the n Other 75 3 7 6 9 term meant. n Unsure More than one in five (21%) said they would need to hire staff or help Who owns the data and information relating to an asset at each SOURCE: CIOB/I3PT GOLDEN THREAD SURVEY from a consultancy to understand stage of a project? (responses shown as percentages) and deliver the golden thread recommendation. There is no clear consensus over Another said: “The client has rights to all who owns project data at the start information at all stages, but copyright Is it clear where to go for support, of a construction project, despite and liability remain with the authors.” advice and resources relating to Dame Judith Hackitt’s call for a In a foreword, Hackitt said: “When the golden thread? digital ‘golden thread’ of information I carried out an independent review following the Grenfell Tower disaster. of building regulations and fire safety That is one of the key findings from in the wake of the Grenfell fire, I was a survey by i3PT Certification and surprised to find the lack of complete, 21% the CIOB. The Golden Thread study accurate or up-to-date information on showed construction professionals are the buildings the construction industry more comfortable assigning ownership has created, which are then passed on responsibilities to other parties, rather to be owned and managed by others than taking them on themselves. without knowing what they have. 79% Some 30% of respondents thought “It is against this backdrop that I data and information relating to an want the industry to recognise and asset belonged to the client at design respond to the need for a digital stage, with 22% thinking it rested with golden thread of information that the information author and 31% thinking is an essential part of delivering n Yes n No it belonged to the lead designer. improvements in building safety.” SOURCE: CIOB/I3PT GOLDEN THREAD SURVEY At construction stage, 45% thought CIOB CEO Caroline Gumble said: it belonged to the contractor, with 28% “Quality has been at the heart of the thinking ownership still rested with CIOB’s work for many years. We know A new CIOB course, Certificate the client. But by the operation stage, that keeping accurate and up-to-date in Fire Safety for Construction, 75% thought it was owned by the information on buildings is a key com- starts on 17 February 2021. client and just 3% with the contractor. ponent in delivering improvements Details can be found on the One respondent said: “Data are in safety. The report provides a clear CIOB Academy website: not ‘owned’ by any one person or sense of the direction the industry www.ciobacademy.org/course/ organisation. They are owned and used needs to take to embed this culture certificate-in-fire-safety-for- by multiple organisations and people.” change to improve safety for all.” ● construction.
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Investment in infrastructure committed by the chancellor over the next five years in the new National Data £600bn Infrastructure Strategy
Construction’s stop-start UK GDP performance during recessions Index t=100 1980s 1990s 2000s Covid-19 OBR November forecast recovery from covid 115 110 The virus’s second wave is impacting order books and H1 2021 will be a pivotal period for many 105 contractors, says Kris Hudson 100 Q3 2020 saw Looking at the longer-term trend, 95 some encouraging new orders for construction are improvements in the weakening. The pipeline of work in 90 economy. UK GDP the industry is considerably below increased 15.5% what it once was. The Q3 bounce, 85 quarter-on-quarter, and construction while welcome, is only the start and output rose by 41.9%. Yet this strong puts into stark perspective how 80 growth came before the second much further we have to go given wave of lockdown restrictions were new orders are some £4bn down, 75 imposed and remains 8.2% below in nominal terms, on the same point t t+4 t+8 t+12 t+16 t+20 pre-covid levels. 20 years ago. Time period: t = quarter prior to first quarter of GDP contraction, t+20 = 20 quarters after GDP contraction While the vaccine rollout is With the second wave of the SOURCE: ONS & OFFICE FOR BUDGETARY RESPONSIBILITY coming into view, the impact of the virus likely to impact order books pandemic on the economy cannot and output in Q4 2020 and Q1 2021, be underestimated. The recession workloads may be constrained Construction new orders performance
we saw during H1 2020 may further before they strengthen. £m Construction new orders 4 quarter moving average have been short-lived, but it was The first half of 2021 is going 20,000 significant. The impact is stark when to be a pivotal period for many you compare the economic hit to contractors, and it will be vital to 18,000 previous recessionary periods. stay alert to the risk of insolvencies 16,000 The Office for Budget and the resilience of the supply Responsibility (OBR) November chain. Particularly given the potential 14,000 forecast suggests it will be 2022 for commercial pressures after 12,000 before we return to the peak seen Brexit, due to the risk of materials before the recession. The hope delays and restrictions to the free 10,000 is that a vaccine programme can movement of labour. improve that position before we With the government leading 8,000 get the OBR’s next forecast and the a ‘build back better’, levelling-up 6,000 Budget in March. approach to recovery, and a National It’s a similar story for Infrastructure Strategy finally 4,000 construction. On the surface, we’ve unveiled, the industry will need to 2,000 seen huge improvements during Q3 reorganise to ensure that 2020. Housing output rose 84.4% on the capacity is in place to meet 0 a quarterly basis, and new orders in future demand. 2000 2003 2005 2008 2010 2013 2015 2018 2020 infrastructure jumped 108.2% in the Kris Hudson is an economist same period. But these figures mask and associate director at SOURCE: OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS (ONS) the deeper covid impact. Turner & Townsend. News in numbers 147,300 £2bn £3.8bn 50% Number of construction workers Annual saving to the NHS in Value of contracts awarded in Decline in new office construction still on furlough at the end of Q3, preventable illness by insulating October, down almost £600m from starts in Q3, according to according to HMRC. At the peak in the UK’s draughty homes, as September, according to data from Deloitte’s Crane Survey, which April, the number was 723,600. estimated by the Federation of Glenigan. Most new work was reported 2.6 million sq ft of work Master Builders. in private housing. began during the period.
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significant attention. However, the root cause – quality – tends to be overlooked. There are number of endemic issues Dr Diyana Abd Razak Dan Keeling Kingston University Shirley Parsons the study identified. Procurement strategies, frameworks and contractual arrangements set by Clients must lead clients lead to a fragmented construction industry. There is a ‘blindness’ among the on quality senior leadership teams of both clients and contractors about the operational A study into common project failings finds impacts of not focusing on quality. And the same issues cropping up time and again. architects and designers feel no ‘pain’ from Dan Keeling and Dr Diyana Abd Razak explain quality issues, either on site or during operations – when they are usually far removed from the project. What can be done to address this persistent poor quality? The performance of the project and its delivery strategy should not be based only on programme time, cost and quality but also the operational performance of the asset. Client, architect, designer, contractor, subcontractor should work in a single team. Because of the misalignment of their goals, the whole system becomes fragmented leading to operational failure. Hackitt identified four key issues that underpinned the system failures in the construction industry: ignorance, where regulations and guidance are Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent investigated how successfully projects misunderstood or misinterpreted; Review of Building Regulations and Fire delivered what was required from a client’s indifference, where the primary motivation Safety in 2018 identified quality issues in viewpoint on completion, and the financial is to do things as quickly and cheaply as construction which many feel should have cost of poor quality. possible; ambiguity and lack of clarity been resolved long ago. Five projects were studied in detail using about roles and responsibilities; and Over the years, many improvement interviews with clients, contractors, quality inadequate regulatory oversight and initiatives have been recommended, but teams, plus operations and maintenance staff. enforcement. the focus on final product and ensuring the The results do not make pretty reading. This study backs up her findings. These customer gets what it specified have not A £150m car park project suffered from systemic problems occur across the been adequately addressed. poor drainage design and installation, with building and infrastructure sectors, but Taking the airport sector alone, Heathrow rectification and lack of availability costing they start at the top. Clients cannot pass Terminal 5 had a disrupted opening, costing £15m. A water treatment plant failed to responsibility down the supply chain and British Airways £23m in the first five days, function as promised, resulting in a quality sit back expecting all to be well; they need Charles de Gaulle airport had a roof collapse, cost of half the contract value. And a £50m to lead on quality. ● while Brandenburg Airport finally opened in airport runway resurfacing led to issues Dan Keeling was head of quality at October last year – 10 years late – after being with design, construction and maintenance, Crossrail and is now a senior associate plagued by construction problems. which cost over £4m to put right. with Shirley Parsons. Dr Diyana Abd Razak The Chartered Quality Institute (CQI), These problems are sometimes reflected is a lecturer in construction management with University College London (UCL), has in safety incidents which then get at Kingston University.
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Let’s work towards a greener infrastructure Changes brought by the pandemic Mark Beard should transform how the sector Beard Group thinks and acts, says Andy Stamps
The recent government announcement of a £4bn A collaborative role for ‘green industrial revolution’ should be a rallying call for change to the whole built the clerk of works? environment sector. Bringing the clerk of works into the With the banning of petrol or diesel vehicles after 2030, and investment in eco fuels, we contractor’s team can help raise building need to consider travel alternatives. Many of standards, argues Mark Beard us have cut down on flights for business and pleasure and switched to electric or hybrid cars. But we need to reduce individual travel and its higher environmental impact compared Over the last few years, particularly since the to public transportation systems, which also Edinburgh schools collapse and the Grenfell promote more inclusive communities. Tower tragedy, there has been considerable At RLB, we are talking to local authority clients about autonomous public transport debate about the clerk of works and how the “I do find it perverse when customers feel it is good practice to squeeze the systems, that could cut operating costs by role can help our industry ensure higher levels 40%. We are helping Dudley and Coventry of quality for our customers. contractor and supply chain down on councils develop ‘very light rail’: cheaper, Historically, I have been sceptical about price, then invest part of the saving in less intrusive volume transportation to link what value the clerk of works brings to a a duplicate checking regime” semi-rural and suburban areas with cities. How will these transportation systems project. But a few weeks ago, visiting one of be powered? Looking beyond electric and our projects in Oxford, the penny dropped. battery operations, business secretary Alok I am a now convert. In fact, I am now a huge any time, but mainly helping us deliver Sharma is encouraging hydrogen production. fan of using the skills of clerks of works the highest possible standard building. Modular nuclear reactors are also part of the government’s plan. We will need different on building projects to maximise product The clerk of works in question is very energy solutions for different regions, so quality – which is very different from their experienced, working ‘client side’ on many where solar might work in certain areas and traditional role. projects. Where we have had problems, wind in others, it may be a combination of If I purchase a new car from BMW, we have been open with him and he has energies that power us into the future. Ford, Honda or any of the major car helped us find solutions. This openness has As individuals we have changed our home lives considerably over the last two decades, manufacturers, they would not countenance built three-way trust with customer and with adoption of low-impact energy such me sending an independent inspector to consultants and avoided duplicate snagging as solar panels, LED lights, ground and air check the quality of their product during at end of the project, giving greater role source heat pumps, rain harvesting and manufacture. They would be confused and clarity and a more efficient team. wind turbines. However, there is still a way to go and it would help if the government’s angry by the suggestion. Their reputation There will still be projects where investment made environmentally efficient is built on getting it right first time through customers benefit from engaging a clerk homes the cheapest to buy, thinking about their own thorough checking and pride of works directly. However, I do find it long-term value rather than short-term cost. in their product. This is the way our perverse when customers feel it is good Last year taught us we can be agile in industry should behave; snagging is for the practice to squeeze the contractor and our work. Where we previously believed we needed to be in an office, the pandemic contractor, not a clerk of works employed supply chain down on price, then invest part showed us for many roles this isn’t the case. by the client. of the saving in a duplicate checking regime. The change to combining office with working Contractors and clerks of works may remotely will cut down on transportation Different way forward find it awkward working as part of the and energy usage, with implications for the infrastructure society needs. I used to think the clerk of works role same team, after many years of forced Against this backdrop, it is vital the overlapped with the site manager or division. But, as the Grenfell Inquiry is built environment industry invests finishing foreman and could be divisive. increasingly highlighting, the sooner government spending in the right But on our project at St Hilda’s College we take full ownership for the quality of technologies, and importantly, is open in Oxford, our customer and retained our work, and the sooner the customer to change in the way it thinks and acts. Hopefully, this will lead to a greener and consultants agreed a different way forward. can look to a single organisation to take cleaner infrastructure for the future. We, the contractor, would directly employ responsibility, the better. ● Andy Stamps is a partner and head of the clerk of works, who would work as part Mark Beard is chairman of Beard Group infrastructure at RLB. of our team, reporting to our customer at and president of the CIOB.
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10_11.CMJan21.opinions_scW.indd 11 08/12/2020 12:24 OPINION constructionmanagermagazine.com Skilling up for the recovery Improving digital and decarbonisation skills can help Caroline Gumble return construction to growth, CIOB says Steve Radley
The business of making CMYA brought positives predictions is fraught with peril, as 2020 showed. So, while we can’t say with in a challenging year certainty what will happen this year, there are a few areas where we The Construction Manager of the Year Awards can make predictions with some confidence. showcased the quality of our industry – and this can The first is that growth will return as carry us forward in 2021, says Caroline Gumble employers deal with the backlog of work. Putting an exact figure on it is harder but CITB’s 2021-25 Construction Skills Network were furloughed for a while or were having interim report forecasts average growth to furlough their teams. Some contracted of 5.4% across the next five years, with coronavirus and were out of action for a housing and infrastructure performing while and, sadly, some faced the loss of loved best. This projection was made before the encouraging news on vaccines, which may ones, friends and colleagues. hasten a return to something like normal life Those things don’t get reflected in the with faster growth accompanying it. nominations, but the stories reached us as The government’s National Infrastructure many of our members and supporters told Strategy was published in November, which provides certainty to contractors to plan us what colleagues had overcome, while ahead and get the right skills in place. still delivering the highest of standards on On New Year’s Eve, we ended our Brexit their projects. transition. Our departure means there must A note about our worthy winner, Frank be a greater focus on growing more of our Connolly MCIOB. Across the board, his work own talent as our access to migrant workers becomes more restricted. “From the opening for entries, not was outstanding. The judges commended his This is why CITB has been looking at long before lockdown in the UK, we “leadership, passion and commitment”, his new pathways from further education into were astonished and delighted that collaborative approach, and his openness the sector, including a new construction the quality of submissions didn’t drop to innovation, including a “cutting-edge” traineeship. We are also continuing our work to get more people site-ready through digital strategy. Many congratulations to at all, despite the circumstances” experience at onsite hubs. Frank and his team. Longstanding challenges like boosting I’m also delighted to highlight another productivity will remain, and this is where Last year saw a lot of us do things first for 2020 – our first ever Rising Star the recovery can become a catalyst for differently, with the Construction Manager award winners. My heartfelt congratulations reinvention. There are real opportunities around offsite construction and of the Year Awards being no exception, going to Annabel Clark, Kelly Attwood and digitalisation which should become clearer, online for the first time in its 42-year history. Vasiliki Bowler. The nominations were very and we will help industry to develop the Details of our 2020 winners can be impressive and each of them is one to watch skills needed to push this forward. found elsewhere in this issue – do take a as a future leader in our industry. The drive towards decarbonisation, underpinned by the UK’s legal mandate few minutes to read those articles, as they It’s important to celebrate the fact that to meet net zero by 2050, will accelerate. really reflect the best of the construction there is clearly more of a commitment from Boris Johnson’s 10-point plan outlined the management profession. the industry to be diverse and inclusive. opportunities for economic growth as we It’s worth highlighting that the 2020 The case for this is clear, for social, moral transform our built environment. Together nominations were incredibly impressive and economic reasons. We are a central with a Green Jobs Task Force, which CITB is supporting, this should give industry a clear and another example of the remarkable part of the construction community which signal of the government’s intentions and resilience of our industry. From the opening creates the buildings we all live, work and the confidence to invest. for entries, not long before lockdown in the play in – the industry needs to better reflect 2020 was a year that became largely UK, we were astonished and delighted that society that we serve. So I’ve been thrilled to about survival for construction employers. This year, my prediction is that we get the quality of submissions didn’t drop at all, see what’s come out of CMYA 2020 – so many back to growth, and make progress on the despite the circumstances. positives in a year that presented so many sector’s big challenges and opportunities. Many of those nominated faced huge challenges – and I’m already excited about Steve Radley is director of strategy and challenges over and above their already what CMYA 2021 will bring. ● policy at CITB. demanding day jobs – some of our entrants Caroline Gumble is CEO of the CIOB.
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Art of Building
Inle Lake LAKES, DESERTS Houses Aung Chan Thar, Inle Lake, Myanmar. AND CITIES ON FIRE “Inle Lake is THE CIOB’S ART OF BUILDING COMPETITION IS BACK inhabited by the WITH ANOTHER SELECTION OF STUNNING PHOTOS Shan people, one of the Burmese ethnic MAKING IT THROUGH TO THE FINAL SHORTLIST groups. They build floating houses and trade on the water on The Chartered Institute of Building story of the built world around us with a floating market.” (CIOB) has revealed the 15 finalists in new and unusual perspectives.” its Art of Building Photographer of There are two awards to be won: the Year competition. the £1,500 Judges’ Prize, chosen by The images made it past the judging the judges, and the £1,500 Public panel out of the thousands submitted Choice Award chosen by the public Colourful from more than 100 countries. through an online vote. Winners will Doors Caroline Gumble, CIOB chief exec- be announced on 26 January 2021. Gerdie Hutomo utive, said: “It’s truly inspiring to see To see the full line-up go to www. Nurhadi, Jakarta, how these photographers can tell the constructionmanagermagazine.com. ● Indonesia.
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City on Fire, Reflected Jamkaran City in the Desert Daniel Jenney, New York, USA. Mosque Joebel Garcisto, Al Ain City, UAE. “Modern, minimalist architecture can really Hadi Dehghanpour, “This housing project is built at the bottom be a great canvas to let light play and Jamkaran, Qom, Iran. of the mountain and surrounded by the change throughout the day. This structure warm colour of desert.” on New York’s Lower West Side reflects the sunset behind the city and provides sharp contrast to the pastel sky.” The Land of Buddha Bob Chiu, Fuzhou, China. The Value of Time James Retief, Big Ben, London, UK. “With the ongoing renovations to Big Ben, this iconic monument has been shrouded in a layer of scaffolding, but I found beauty in the matrix of scaffolding poles, stairs and netting which abstracts it into an approximation of the overly familiar form.”
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Construction Manager of the Year Awards 2020
WINNER 2020
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and CENTRE STAGE challenged Connolly’s expertise and ingenuity at every turn. MACE’S FRANK CONNOLLY TOOK THE OVERALL CONSTRUCTION MANAGER His approach to value engineering OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR 2020 FOR HIS MASTERFUL PROJECT STRATEGY was key to successful delivery, ON LSE’S FLAGSHIP CENTRE BUILDING. CM REPORTS ON ALL THE particularly so given the architec- WINNERS OVER THE NEXT 14 PAGES tural aspiration for the 12-storey building. Connolly’s deployment of Frank Connolly from Mace is the alternative methodologies, products Frank Connolly MCIOB Construction Manager of the Year for and sequences realised savings while Construction Manager of the Year 2020 2020, and gold winner of the Higher maintaining the spirit of the design. Gold Winner Higher Education Education category, after expertly For the brise soleil cladding, he Mace delivering a striking new faculty ditched an expensive externally Project: Centre Building, Holborn building for the London School of installed system requiring secondary Scope: Construction of 12-storey Economics (LSE). steel support and full scaffold access block, completed in 124 weeks On a busy site in Holborn, in the in favour of a unitised system with Client: London School of Economics heart of the capital, the new Centre integrated brise soleil supported Contract: GC Works 1 D&B Building features the trademark by brackets within the frame. Flat- Value: £82m exposed structure of architect pack brise soleil could therefore be
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Higher Education
attached to the cladding on site at curtain walling and brise soleil; the Other finalists ground level without the need for services modules, risers and plant Neil Adams MCIOB scaffolding along the elevations. modules; the sprinklers (the UK’s Willmott Dixon Meanwhile, Connolly had the first fully prefabricated system); and Interiors, London unitised facade’s 3m-wide panels reception and cafe pods. His product Screen Academy, Highbury redesigned as 2m-wide elements so innovation included crystalline-based David Clarke they could be installed from the floor concrete waterproofing rather than MCIOB slabs with floor cranes and hoists, time-consuming sheet tanking. Wates Construction, allowing the tower cranes to be At the enabling works stage, Quarry Hill Campus, Leeds City College removed earlier. Connolly de-risked the archaeology Anthony Cooper The land-locked LSE site was – which has historically dogged the MCIOB accessible only from a single-file lane client’s programme in construction Interserve Construction, which made logistics management projects – by coordinating the Engineering challenging. Connolly helped alleviate digs with demolition activity. All Heartspace, this by suspending part of the ground- archaeology was signed off before Sheffield floor slab over the basement to the construction phase began as Karl Crisp MCIOB support a gantry at the site entrance scheduled. Willmott Dixon, The for excavators and lorries to operate And when calamity struck, he Kennedy Building, JOAS SOUZA JOAS and turn. The exercise in top-down responded. The rupturing of an offsite Canterbury construction doubled up to create a water main flooded the basement Underpinning his project strategy Glyn Jones MCIOB fair-faced concrete soffit for the when the slab pours were already was cutting-edge digital thinking. Willmott Dixon, auditorium below. under way. As the flooding continued Connolly had animated fly-throughs Student Life Building, Teesside He also instigated a major prefab- from a main that the water utility created to help the supply chain University rication push to reduce site deliveries left on for eight long weeks, Connolly understand the project and the Lee Mullett and labour, and raise product and put in pumping points and switched quality required, and a virtual reality MCIOB installation quality. Some 65% of the to smaller slab pours so basement walk-through for the client and end Willmott Dixon, Teaching and project was prefabricated: the steel construction could continue – and users to provide an effective visual Learning, University frame and precast planks; the unitised complete just five days behind. interpretation of the design. of Birmingham Adam Price MCIOB Beard Construction, studio-filled pod four storeys high. Richard White Catherine Hughes With the roof slab needing to cure and Building, Somerville MCIOB College, Oxford gain strength before it could support Silver Winner Ian Rainbow ISG Construction the pod’s weight, he avoided over- MCIOB loading the suspended ground-floor BAM Construct UK, Project: The Richmond Building, slab with temporary support. Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, Twickenham Rather than over-reinforce the slab, Sheffield Scope: Construction of five-storey White smartly retained the piling mat Lee Wayper campus block, completed in 99 weeks to carry the load from the upper floors. MCIOB Sir Robert McAlpine, Client: Richmond upon Thames College During construction of the main The Frederick Contract: NEC 3 option A building’s frame, he spent six weeks Douglass Centre, Value: £38m erecting an atrium-filling birdcage Newcastle University scaffold from which trusses to Richard White’s five-storey campus strengthen the structural roof could be block was a technical trial, which installed. Fabricated in two sections, the included constructing a reinforced eight 24m-long trusses were assembled SILVER concrete frame around a cavernous at ground level and lifted into position atrium and auditorium voids, in one piece using the site’s single and hanging from the roof slab a tower crane over a two-week period.
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Primary Education
Other finalists Massimiliano Crea Laura Allison MCIOB GOLD MCIOB Morgan Sindall Mid Group Construction, Hilltop Primary School, Airdrie Project: Stonebridge Primary Mike Castle School, London NW10 FCIOB Scope: Construction of new Knights Brown, Church Crookham teaching block and hall, and Junior School refurbishment of Grade II-listed Mark McElwee building, completed in 67 weeks MCIOB Client: London Borough of Brent Morgan Sindall Construction, Contract: JCT D&B Abbey View Primary Value: £7.5m Academy, High Wycombe Massi Crea’s design input at the Michael Pyatt MCIOB start of the Stonebridge Primary Morgan Sindall School project was responsible for Construction, significant cost savings. Abertillery Learning Community – Six He changed the building Bells Campus layout, placing classrooms on the The steel frame of the new build, the classroom spaces to the Stephen Sear perimeter of the existing building, which required lengthy lead-in times, existing building’s old hall as part of MCIOB Morgan Sindall to equalise the air conditioning was replaced with timber structural the refurbishment programme. Construction, requirement, then equipped each insulated panels, which could be These changes slashed the Hailsham Primary one with its own standalone natural installed from smaller mobile cranes, budget by £1.2m and despite the Academy, Brighton ventilation and heat recovery unit, and speeded up the programme. redesign work enforcing a late start reducing the amount of expensive Crea also removed the new block’s on site, Crea still handed over five duct work required. projected second storey, relocating months early.
The major challenge on this recycled gas-line pipework, making Thomas Prince predesigned Sunesis-type substantial cost and time savings. MCIOB single-storey school centred on The potential for ground heave Willmott Dixon the groundworks. prevented installation of an in-situ With 600mm of topsoil concrete floor, so Prince went for a Project: Water Orton Primary School, compromising the foundation beam and block construction with Birmingham design, Thomas Prince brought in screed topping, resequencing the Scope: Construction of single- a remediation specialist who kept roofing to avoid losing time on the storey school with two-form entry, 9,000 cu m of excavated material overall programme. completed in 46 weeks on site by cement-stabilisation Client: Warwickshire County Council and cut-and-fill works. The bearing substrate sat deep Contract: NEC 3 option A SILVER Value: £5.8m below the finished floor level, so the original plan was for costly continuous flight auger piles. However, having used steel tube piles on past projects, Prince decided to put the steel in direct and eliminated concrete by driving in
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Schools
Andrew Miles MCIOB GOLD Kier Construction
Project: Croesyceiliog School, Cwmbran, Wales Scope: Construction of three-storey replacement school, completed in 92 weeks Client: Torfaen County Borough Council Contract: NEC 3 option A Value: £29m
Andrew Miles only found out deep into preconstruction that Croesyceiliog School would be GCSE-only, rather than catering for A-levels as well, meaning he had to review the design and pull back ADAM DAVIES ADAM 10 lost weeks of programme. A further complication during construction was formed early. He redesigned the car football pitch, by soil-stabilising Other finalists the decision to keep an existing school park, access, fencing and services, the ground so it could be used in the John Blundell MCIOB block on the site for A-level students and saved costs by using a shallower substructure and piling mats, and TJ Evers, until completion of a post-16 college. foundation solution and rationalising by introducing a swale to downsize Teaching Block Miles realigned the enabling works the drainage design, which reduced attenuation crate volumes. & Amphitheatre, Dame Alice Owen’s with the main works and moved works excavation work and concrete volumes. His cost savings exceeded £400,000 – School, Potters Bar off the critical path to allow the cut and He avoided removal of 13,000 cu m enough to protect the budget – and the Daniel Morrish fill to plateau and piling mats to be of waste by raising the level of the project was delivered six weeks early. MCIOB Morgan Sindall Construction, Lexden Springs end-users to embrace the School, Colchester Graham Thompson demanding quality required. Mark Prince Eric Wright MCIOB He built a full-size mock-up of a SILVER Construction, Willmott Dixon section of the building, testing it Queen Elizabeth ahead of the programme to reduce Studio School, Kirkby Lonsdale Project: Harris Academy Sutton, Surrey risk, and to agree quality standards Scope: Construction of four-storey and benchmarking. This was the Passivhaus school, completed key to the exceptionally airtight in 89 weeks envelope requirement of no more Client: London Borough of Sutton than 0.6 air changes per hour. Contract: JCT D&B 2016 When issues including drainage Value: £38m design, bad weather and a factory breakdown took a 10-week bite out of Harris Academy is the biggest school the programme, Thompson changed in Europe – and first UK secondary the sequencing, completing the wings school – built to the Passivhaus of the building first and temporarily standard and Graham Thompson waterproofing the roof and facade so led a collaborative effort with the internal finishes could be brought architects, engineers, client and forward to recover lost time.
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Healthcare
Other finalists Lewis Blake Tom Millard MCIOB MCIOB Willmott Dixon, Willmott Dixon Interiors Cardiff Royal Infirmary Block 14 Robert Palmer Project: Nursing and Midwifery MCIOB Council Headquarters, London E20 Kier Regional Scope: Fit-out of office headquarters, Building London and South East, completed in 16 weeks Southwood Client: Nursing and Midwifery Council Courtyard Building, Contract: JCT 2016 with procurement Great Ormond Street Hospital hub amendments Value: £1.9m
This 17th-floor fit-out of 22,000 sq ft of office space required Lewis Blake to execute a fast-paced programme in a GOLD fully occupied building that was busy seven days a week.
ADAM DAVIES DAVIES ADAM Just-in-time deliveries were key on a site where the loading bay was courtyard, surrounded on all sides by shared with other building occupants live medical facilities. and another fit-out contractor. His logistical planning included With no room for lost time, Blake erecting a tower crane inside the switched to risk-reducing alternatives courtyard, the only practicable way for a bespoke staging area and feature to move materials into and out of ceiling canopy in the amphitheatre. the site. In an emergency corridor Cost-effective flooring, tiling and over which the crane lifts would joinery options freed up budget. The take place, he installed a CCTV project was handed over on schedule. camera linked to the crane cab so the operator could check if the corridor Matt Gavin was clear before each lift. SILVER MCIOB For the removal of an existing Kier Construction ground-floor slab, Gavin arranged the saw-cutting operation for between Project: MRI Building, University 8am and 9am to prevent disruption to Hospital of Wales, Cardiff patients, with sections crushed by a Scope: Construction of six-storey remote-operated demolition robot to MRI building, completed in 96 weeks limit the noise and vibration. Client: Cardiff and Vale University When equipment specification Health Board changed and pushed the electrical Contract: NEC option C load much higher, he had to introduce Value: £12m a cast resin busbar. By vigorously resequencing, he allowed snagging For this six-storey replacement and commissioning to continue MRI facility at the biggest hospital while the busbar was sourced and in Wales, Matt Gavin had to deliver installed, reducing a potential the new-build project in an enclosed 16-week delay to just four.
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Leisure
slab waterproofing was required, Jamie Beard an issue on his previous schemes. MCIOB Rather than building a traditional SILVER Willmott Dixon in-situ concrete tank for the pool, he cut installation time by putting in a Project: Tameside Wellness Centre, prefabricated stainless steel structure Denton, Manchester imported from Italy. Using his Scope: Construction of two-storey experience, he positioned the super- leisure centre, completed in 63 weeks large water balance tanks outside the Client: Network Space building rather than under the pool Contract: JCT D&B 2016 surround to avoid a potentially tricky Value: £11.5m insertion operation. Beard also changed the pool slab depth from 600mm to 225mm on top of piles, saving cost and time, reducing the amount of concrete and rebar required, and derisked the waterproofing solution. When the pool hall roof arrived on site from Germany with unperforated steel decking, he achieved the required Jamie Beard’s experience of sound dampening by placing acoustic Other finalists Nick Stoyles swimming pool construction was panels on the pool hall walls instead. Theresa McErlean Willmott Dixon (now invaluable on this leisure centre job. And even with £500,000 of additional MCIOB CIRC Construction Heron Bros, He spent £90,000 upfront rather than works to incorporate, he still delivered Management) Ards Blair Mayne the budgeted £25,000 to ensure the eight weeks early and within budget. Wellbeing & Leisure Complex, waterproofing system was designed, Beard’s digital innovation, which Project: New Addington Leisure Newtownards installed and warranted by the same included virtual reality walkthroughs and Community Centre, Croydon Danni Oliveira contractor. The move ensured no for stakeholders, helped the operator Scope: Construction of leisure and MCIOB subsequent rectification of the pool sell 800 memberships before opening. WRW Construction, community centre, completed in Travelodge, 113 weeks Chippenham Client: Croydon Council Jonathan Roberts MCIOB GOLD Contract: NEC 3 option A Vinci Construction Value: £33m UK, Barton Square, Manchester Nick Stoyles completed a defect-free Paul Turner leisure centre six weeks early for MCIOB Vinci Construction a client for whom deadline was as UK, Time Square, crucial as cost and quality. He saved Warrington the client millions by cantilevering the frame over a problematic soakaway and folding a housing subproject into the main build. His extensive research into reported defects on leisure centres and tapping of the experience of the supply chain and other construction managers underpinned his high-quality delivery.
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Public and Infrastructure
Kristian Cartwright’s foresight Kristian Cartwright and local knowledge were vital, for MCIOB example, he picked out a cladding SILVER Willmott Dixon system suited to the marine environment which didn’t bust Project: The Box, Plymouth the budget. Scope: Refurbishment of heritage He developed the structural steel buildings and construction of solution that allowed 14 ships’ extension, completed in 131 weeks figureheads (weighing up to 2.5 tonnes apiece) to be suspended from Client: Plymouth City Council Other finalists a fire-rated slab. Contract: JCT traditional Kevin Alden Other technical challenges Russ Parks Value: £28m MCIOB MCIOB Cartwright overcame included Sir Robert McAlpine, Willmott Dixon This high-profile museum project squeezing a tower crane in Newcastle Civic Centre marked the 400th-anniversary between bomb-damaged ground, Paul Clarke celebrations of the Mayflower setting a 17th-century culvert and the Project: The Futurist, Demolition and MCIOB sail from Plymouth for the New World, site access road, designing the Stabilisation, Scarborough Willmott Dixon, combining heritage with new build. formwork for an 8m concrete Scope: Demolition of theatre and Liverpool Echo Arena Car Park cliff stabilisation works, completed cantilever 11m off the ground, and Brian Hanlon building gallery walls 20m long in 76 weeks MCIOB and 5m high without day joints to Client: Scarborough Borough Council Highly Commended Willmott Dixon, ensure the best finish. Contract: NEC 3, Scape 3 framework Merseyside His conservation experience and Value: £3.9m Police Patrol Hub, carpentry background ensured Liverpool joinery-grade tolerances and A former infantry commander, Russ John Stedman MCIOB finishes for humble materials and Parks took charge of this technically Morgan Sindall junctions not usually subject to such tricky demolition of a seafront theatre Construction and Infrastructure, West scrutiny, resulting in a high-quality building combined with stabilisation Suffolk Operational delivery throughout. works for the 40m-high cliff behind. Hub, Bury St The location was surrounded by Edmunds residential and business properties, and Simon Whittingham MCIOB Parks engaged with the local commu- GOLD Willmott Dixon, nity face to face, while keeping the site Exeter Police secure with round-the-clock CCTV, Station perimeter sensors and guard patrols. He used geotechnical modelling to plan the removal of 6,000 tonnes of ground-weight from the upper cliff slope, which was stabilised with soil anchors. When the theatre was demolished, following an extensive demolition strip, work to remove the main retaining wall began, only for the ground sensors to reveal movement in the cliff slope. After a 12-week delay while various engineering solutions were considered, 34 pairs of 17m-long sheet piles were driven in to secure the slop and complete the job.
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Office
Other finalists Richard Kirkpatrick Paul Epton GOLD MCIOB MCIOB Robertson Skanska Construction, 10 George Street, Edinburgh Project: The Marq, 32 Duke Street, Daniel Miller St James’s, London Wates Construction, 7&8 Wellington Scope: Construction of nine-storey Place, Leeds block with 67,000 sq ft of office Ian Rowe space, completed in 103 weeks MCIOB Oakmont Client: The Crown Estate Construction, Contract: JCT D&B LONDON 1 Data Value: £34m Centre, Dagenham Craig Stokes Proactive and driven, Richard MCIOB Kirkpatrick delivered emphatically Laing O’Rourke, The Brunel Building, on programme and on budget within Paddington the confines of a difficult site in his first role as project director. He also delivered outstanding a mainline railway, he had the entire quality, as is clear from the delighted Kevin English superstructure screened from the client’s rapid letting of the office and MCIOB ground floor up. As falling materials retail space. Lendlease had been an issue during services Kirkpatrick’s success has been a installation on previous projects in the tribute to his expertise in building Project: 2 Redman Place, business park, he had service holes and leading the team, as well as Stratford E20 preformed into the risers, and used his enthusiasm and tenacity, and Scope: Construction of magnetic paper to further minimise his exceptional organisation and nine-storey office block, the falling-object hazard. management skills. completed in 119 weeks Having concluded that the roof Client: Stratford City handrail design created an unsafe environment for installing the Business District SILVER Contract: D&B copings, the external cladding and Value: £108m the handrails themselves, English had permanent rails factory-installed as part of the cladding fabrication. The external copings were also factory-fitted. He eliminated the need to install Operational safety manager for a plywood topping on falsework by the entire IQL development in using steel-frame table formwork. The Stratford, health and safety was a key system delivered substantial benefits consideration for Kevin English on not just in safety and quality but also this nine-storey, 280,000 sq ft office in cost by taking a huge quantity block construction. of plywood out of the structural He eliminated work at the leading formation. edge wherever possible through The result of all his efforts was a innovation in design, fabrication and project with zero reportable incidents
installation. With the project close to and an enviable safety record. HUSZKA ADAM
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Residential Under 10 Storeys
manhole chambers for the foul water Michael Saunders sewers, he removed the need for piled MCIOB foundations for the manholes or deep SILVER Lovell peat removal. This also eliminated the risk of Project: Orchard Place, King’s Lynn subsequent ground settlement Scope: Construction of 130 homes, disconnecting the drainage system completed in 164 weeks from piled concrete chambers, Client: Borough Council of King’s simplified the sequencing, and Lynn & West Norfolk was much faster to install than Contract: PPC 2000 with a wider traditional concrete. developer management agreement Other infrastructure innovations Value: £20m included geogrids to stabilise the ground and precast modular foundations built to meet the exact ground conditions and house types Michael Saunders is in charge of an under construction. eight-project partnership with the On a site with a high flood risk local council in King’s Lynn that will but no budget to raise ground levels ultimately deliver 1,000 new homes, substantially, Saunders installed flood- and he completed this first scheme resistant air bricks, doors and drainage with bar-raising success. valves and ran all the electrics 600mm Other finalists With a costly earthworks operation above finished floor level. Dominic Jankowski Tony Gallagher MCIOB MCIOB looming due to the high water table, With the council delighted with his Durkan, Manor tidal deposits, and clay and peat work on the two partnership projects Hill Group Place Depot, content, he ensured project viability completed in 2019, and the third early Southwark through his design solutions. By in 2020, Saunders is likely to be kept Matt Hamilton Project: Fish Island Village, MCIOB installing prefabricated plastic busy with the next five in the pipeline. Stratford, London Seacon, 6 Ilchester Place Scope: Construction of 423 Paul Jeal apartments in 16 mid-rise blocks, MCIOB GOLD completed in 159 weeks. St George West London, Client: Peabody/Hill Group Beaufort Park Contract: JCT Tomasz Magiera Value: £105m MCIOB WRW Construction, Lakeshore – Copper Dom Jankowski drove this 16-block Building, Bristol project for 423 apartments while Mark Woollen MCIOB seeing off potential disruption. Willmott Dixon, His rationalisation of the basement Winwood Heights, car park and his switch to a more Nottingham effective piling method for its perimeter support rescued the scheme’s finances. And his solutions to access challenges with the precast facade rescued its programme. He finished four weeks early, still on budget and with a high-quality end product.
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Residential Over 10 Storeys
Other finalists Alistair MacPartlin Brendan Conway MCIOB GOLD MCIOB JJ Rhatigan Building McAleer and Rushe, Contractors Horizon Heights, Liverpool Caroline Heraghty Project: No.26, Dingwall Road, MCIOB Croydon Ardmore Scope: Redevelopment of 16-storey Construction, Bowery Building/ office block as 183-unit residential Smyth Building, tower with six-storey extension, London SW15 completed in 122 weeks Terry Kirby MCIOB Client: HSBC Pension Trust Berkeley Homes, Contract: JCT D&B 2011 Birch House, Value: £36m London SE3 Anthony Mitchell Alistair MacPartlin ensured issues MCIOB ISG Construction, did not turn into major problems LIV Student, on this scheme to remodel an office Sheffield block as a residential tower by Gerald Ward adding six storeys of new steel to an MCIOB Bennett existing concrete frame. He fostered Construction, For the superstructure, he analysed honest and transparent dialogue, Mansbridge House (Block A), Patrick Phillips different methodology options, and provided solutions to client Battersea MCIOB before switching from traditional problems, taking a positive approach Exchange, Durkan crane-assisted construction for the even in the direst of situations. London SW8 core walls to slipform concrete. This Following completion of this scheme, Project: Atkins House/Benjamin resulted in substantial cost and time the client has asked him to lead House/Concert House/Orchestra savings by slashing the crane presence another project. House, Ilford on site, with the 23 storeys of the Scope: Construction of 354 homes tower’s core built in just 30 days. Another machinery innovation was in four blocks including a 24-storey SILVER tower, completed in 133 weeks the use of mast climbing work platforms Clients: Durkan Estates, Southern instead of scaffolding. Easier to erect Housing Group, M&G and dismantle, they brought significant Contract: D&B gains in productivity, speed and Value: £67m efficiency. On an overhang on the 23rd floor, where the mast climbers couldn’t This former music building reach, Phillips hung the scaffold for the redevelopment was a tough logistical cladding installation off that top storey. challenge for Patrick Phillips, being To simplify facade maintenance as located on a large brownfield site in a well as construction, he rationalised densely populated area, bordered by the balcony design, eliminating the North Circular road and with only unnecessary variations to exploit one access route. offsite manufacturing, and fitting the During groundworks, two wells balcony cladding at ground level. were discovered under the building Phillips completed the 354-home footprint, but Phillips redesigned the scheme on time and on budget. He piling works, creating a larger pile even handed over two of the four
cap to safely bridge the well gaps. blocks months ahead of schedule. BRITTON GARY
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President’s Award
Professor Charles Egbu CIOB SETTING NEW STANDARDS SIR JAMES WATES IS on occupational health and work- THE DESERVING FIRST related illnesses, like mental health. WINNER OF THE CIOB We are seeing more construction PRESIDENT’S AWARD. businesses open up to the challenge PAST PRESIDENT of diversity and inclusion. Sir James’s CHARLES EGBU EXPLAINS bold leadership has committed Wates to reflect society more fully by 2025. Making fairness and openness not just phrases but corporate objectives Change does not come easy. It takes that are reported upon. a certain kind of person to lead from It is perhaps unsurprising that the front, to set the tempo from which when UK government looked for a their organisation, their people, and chairperson to develop corporate even an entire industry can follow. governance principles for large Construction is transforming, and privately owned companies, they it needs to. We don’t have nearly asked Sir James to lead the work. enough diversity in our workforce; The resulting Wates Principles we have only started to recognise the encourage high standards of silent crisis of poor mental health corporate governance, and crucially and wellbeing. And these issues are reflect the impact that large privately holding us back from fulfilling our owned companies have on society “It is a great honour to receive this award. potential. and the economy. I became a CIOB associate in 1985, so for Which brings us back to why Many will know that outside of his 35 years I’ve been seeing the great work changing the way we do things is so family-owned business Sir James is a the CIOB does. It is a beacon for quality important. But for change to take true champion for the industry. He has and ethics in our industry. Of course, effect we need people who are bold held numerous positions at various we can’t stand still. We have to keep enough to show us what is possible leading bodies. He was recently chair working on being safer, less tolerant and how to take a different road. of the CBI Construction Council of poor quality and more inclusive. It is for these reasons that I am and the co-chair of Infrastructure The work the CIOB does, the work we delighted to award Sir James Wates Exports: UK. He is currently chairman all do together, is vital to bring about that the CIOB President’s Award. of the BRE (Building Research change. Thank you to everyone who really Under Sir James’s stewardship the Establishment) Trust. cares about what they do and thank Wates Group is setting new standards Please do join me in congratulating you for this wonderful award.” Sir James Wates CBE FCIOB, Wates Group for what can be achieved in terms of Sir James Wates as he receives the CIOB President’s Award winner health and safety. Their Zero Harm CIOB President’s Award. ● Strategy is a success story in its own Professor Charles Egbu FCIOB right, with the ambition to make their is vice chancellor at Leeds Trinity construction sites as safe as their University and past president offices, while placing an equal focus of the CIOB.
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Rising Stars
which clashed with existing below- ground services, a process involving NEW STARS Kelly Attwood Morgan Sindall dialogue with civil engineers and the local water board. She has managed RISING all the groundworks, including piling, AFTER MORE THAN FOUR DECADES a 960 sq m concrete pour, plus the RECOGNISING PROFESSIONALS AT THE PEAK Kelly Attwood is a graduate site installation of the 87 modules which OF THEIR CAREERS, THE CONSTRUCTION manager at Morgan Sindall. After form the teaching block – successfully MANAGER OF THE YEAR AWARDS IS NOW her graduation in summer 2018, overcoming the new challenges REWARDING THOSE STARTING OUT IN THE she has progressed rapidly at the posed by covid-19. INDUSTRY WITH THE NEW RISING STAR business and been given increased On another project nearby, at CATEGORY. IN ITS AUGURAL YEAR, THERE responsibility and accountability, Goldington Academy, Attwood had to WERE TWO GOLD WINNERS AND ONE SILVER recently leading a £10m design-and- carefully sequence works around the build, three-storey modular building. school’s need to remain operational. On the Vandyke School project Working with the client, she was able to in Bedfordshire, Attwood had to foresee issues that were not spotted at think on her feet and adapt quickly, tender stage and identify and mitigate redesigning an attenuation tank the most significant risk factors.
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Attwood has been praised for her On the SOAS project, she produced supports professional development Other finalists “exemplary attitude” and “inquisitive a comprehensive assessment report and advancement of best practice Sam Bambury MCIOB nature” by colleagues, as well as a “true to explain the impact that a last- within F+G, represents the business Barratt passion” for construction. She is a minute change instruction would at industry events and promotes Cedric Fournier construction ambassador through CITB have on time, cost and quality, and diversity and recruitment of more Prime Pillar GoConstruct, attending schools to give developed an online audit trail to females into construction through (Mauritius) careers talks, and also speaks at Women facilitate collaboration and help her talks at graduate careers events. Ellie Carswell Faithful+Gould in Construction events to help change identify conflicting priorities and Nicola Hodson female perceptions of the industry. overcome pain points. MCIOB At LMU, her strategy helped the Annabel Clark Manchester client achieve its project objectives Faithful+Gould University NHS Foundation Trust while ensuring students’ lessons (formerly Wates) would continue uninterrupted Graham Kinnear throughout the construction process. Annabel Clark is a senior consultant MCIOB Graham Kinnear She facilitated a value engineering in Faithful+Gould’s strategic asset Property workshop, which focused the project management team. She has gained Consultants team on finding alternative products, recognition in the business across the Mercy Ogunnusi rather than just cost cutting, and full spectrum of consultancy skills, MCIOB Robert Gordon saving the client £300,000. from technical to commercial, with University She also won praise from expertise in sustainability, life cycle Lindsey Platt client Royal Bank of Scotland for costing and asset management. MCIOB Orbit Housing her management of an intricate She has shown a particular flair Association programme of works worth £20m, for environment issues, working Benjamin consisting of 12 projects across four as BREEAM assessor and advisory Valliquette different buildings. professional on a Met Office project in Gillam Group Far left: Kelly Attwood’s Vandyke School (Canada) Colleagues say Bowler “stands Devon, where both buildings achieved project in Bedfordshire Robert Watson out in the business by dint of hard an Excellent rating. She is “proud” Above: Vasiliki Bowler managed a £20m NHBC programme for Royal Bank of Scotland work and her commitment to to be working in an industry that is Right: Annabel Clark worked as a BREEAM upholding industry standards”. She striving to cut carbon emissions. assessor on a Met Office project in Devon
Vasiliki Bowler Faithful+Gould
Vasiliki Bowler has worked in the built environment for six years and been with Faithful+Gould for the past four. She administers private and public sector projects from RIBA Stage 1 through to 7 and has managed projects including for the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the London Metropolitan University (LMU). Clients expressed appreciation for Bowler’s ability to meet expectations “precisely and consistently”.
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Infrastructure
“It is one of our ambitions to HS2 SETS PACE make sure we can leave that legacy. Professor Andrew McNaughton, who ON CONSTRUCTION’S at the time was our technical director, used to say that BIM is the lifeblood DIGITAL JOURNEY of HS2. And it has truly been seen THE UK’S BIGGEST INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT IS A HOTBED OF INNOVATION that way from day one,” she states WHICH COULD TRANSFORM THE WIDER INDUSTRY. CM FINDS OUT MORE with evident passion. FROM HEAD OF DIGITAL ENGINEERING DR SONIA ZAHIRODDINY “But since then the thinking has matured, and we have rebranded Whatever the detractors might Among them is Dr Sonia the terminology, or the way that think of its very concept, HS2 is an Zahiroddiny. As HS2 Ltd’s head of BIM is perceived, to become more ambitious project – and digital digital engineering, it’s her task to than just 3D modelling, to become engineering is at the heart of it. drive BIM and related technologies digital engineering. And the The project’s numbers are dizzying: through the project. Whatever legacies thinking is still maturing and is 343 miles of railway track, 45 miles of the mega-project leaves behind when still evolving.” tunnels, 37 miles of viaducts, 119 miles complete, the demonstration of the Zahiroddiny describes many digital of cutting, 120 miles of embankment benefits that digital engineering can developments being introduced on and 30,000 people working on it. bring will be to the fore. HS2 as “fairly alien” to the sector.
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Estimated days saved through 4D modelling of construction sequencing 40 on HS2 phase one
“It’s effectively a change never been used on previous major programme, and with any change projects”. The hub was designed by a programme, there can be huge cultural consortium led by PCSG, the digital and, in some cases, commercial built environment consultancy barriers to overcome,” she explains. recently bought by Bentley Systems. “We find that people engage when “The visualisation hub brings our they see the value of digital or BIM, vision for a virtual railway to life, or how the wider digital landscape and will form the basis of our digital can add to their day-to-day jobs. twin,” Zahiroddiny says. To bring people into the [digital] “With the scale and the complexity fold, you’ve got to make sure the of HS2, we are producing huge messaging is simple. They’re amounts of data – millions of records, HS2 CEO Mark “Ultimately the visualisation hub interested in knowing ‘how does terabytes of data. And currently Thurston visits the is a web-based platform that acts as a this make my job easier’? these various data sets are coming Old Oak Common ‘top hat’. It’s basically an integration station site using “We’ve drawn up use cases, case from our contractors in various an augmented platform that brings all of these data studies and personas to try to put formats, and are stored, managed reality headset sets together, and thus provides us context around digital engineering. and interrogated in a number of with multiple views of the railway as So if I’m a project manager, what very specialist systems across it’s being planned and designed and is [digital engineering] to me? By the organisation. constructed. And it really helps us to adopting a wider change approach, remove some of the complexity we’re combined with upskilling, we’re currently facing in accessing and hoping that we can overcome some “Our contractors are already analysing some of this data.” of those barriers.” reporting increased productivity She continues: “The hub is HS2’s digital engineering upskilling from 5D modelling and quantity the convergence of GIS and 3D platform, originally unveiled in 2016, take-offs: a reduction in modelling, CAD, BIM and asset was given a fresh launch with further man-hours of up to 50% to 60% information, because it brings all resources in October 2020. across the programme” of these various elements together. It provides free-to-access e-learning Dr Sonia Zahiroddiny, HS2 But it also pulls in some of the project and resources to the supply chain. controls data (cost data and some There were 11 e-learning courses of the health and safety incident available as CM went to press, ranging data), and, once we have our data- from developing a BIM execution plan, streaming platform stood up, some via BIM documentation and roles and of the telemetric data as well. responsibilities, to understanding “The hub should, by default, make HS2’s information delivery cycle. The it simpler and quicker to find the platform also includes a jargon buster. data, to understand the situation Zahiroddiny adds: “The platform or context of the data. So you can clarifies our strategy and targets, our look for an asset, know where implementation methods and what it’s located, see all the graphical that means to contractors. representations of it, see all the “The portal is an engaging and related documentation, see how innovative learning platform, and we much we forecasted, and see how will continue to update it with more much the actual spend is. courses. There is an appetite out “It just makes it much easier for there for people to want to improve or you to view, interrogate and analyse increase their digital maturity.” the data in a single, unified platform.” She is proud of HS2’s visualisation Zahiroddiny reports that HS2’s hub, describing it as “the first of its digital strategy is already delivering kind, a unique platform, which has tangible benefits.
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Five digital innovations keeping HS2 on track
The team come from learning and “I’ve really tried to look development, or psychology, or data outwards and say: ‘Look, if architecture and data sciences: these you’re really going to push are all the sorts of skills that you beyond the mandate and don’t typically associate with digital become more digitally engineering or rail infrastructure more enabled, then that goes broadly. But within the CAD and GIS beyond just the 3D models” areas, the majority of them have been Dr Sonia Zahiroddiny, HS2 within the rail sector for a while.” Warming to her theme, she adds: “I’ve really tried to look outwards and “Our contractors are already say: ‘Look, if you’re really going to reporting that the use of 5D push beyond the mandate and become modelling and quantity take-offs more digitally enabled, then that goes have increased consistency and beyond just the 3D models – they’re standardised the process of creation just nice 3D pictures, and there’s a lot of design,” she says. “And this has more involved. resulted in increased productivity: “And therefore it does require a they’re reporting a reduction in man broad sets of skills – for example, The Krokodyl robot in action hours of up to 50% to 60% across enterprise architects, or data their stages of the programme. architects or process managers 1 On board robots for TBMs The Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick “Another example is extensive who understand how to do process JV has developed an on-board robot for tunnel boring use of 4D modelling in construction mapping who will help us re-engineer machines (TBMs). The Krokodyl robot will carry out repetitive sequencing. Close integration with some of the old-school ways of doing tasks such as removing wooden spacers between tunnel the project controls team has enabled things. So the fresh perspective segments on the 16km-long Chiltern tunnels. improved visual identification of that this diverse range of people 2 4D learning tech for safety areas of risk, allowing us to mitigate have brought in is a fresh eye on The Balfour Beatty Vinci JV is using immersive technology some of these risks before we start things, and they have been rightly from 3D Repo to improve site safety. The technology, construction – and that’s resulted in challenging some of the ways we cloud-based SafetiBase 4D, sees workers enter a roughly 40 days of time savings.” have been doing things.” 360-degree virtual version of a site where they can identify safety issues. She thinks there’s a two-way Aside from the visualisation hub
exchange of intelligence and and the upskilling platform, she 3 AI-enabled estimating experience happening between HS2 emphasises her team’s greatest An AI-enabled carbon and cost estimating tool is being and its tier 1 contractors: “There’s success: “Raising the profile around trialled by the Skanska Costain Strabag JV. It automates collaboration and innovative the importance of data and digital: BIM processes so that different design options can be simulated using different types and quantities of thinking both ways: they’re that’s been a huge undertaking. construction materials. responding to our requirements, but And it’s been driven both bottom up at the same time, they’re coming and top down.” 4 IoT sensors in cement mixers back and saying ‘we can go over and Digital engineering, she adds, will Tech startup Cloud Cycle’s IoT solution uses sensors fitted inside cement mixers to monitor the quality of the above’, or ‘this is what we can do’, or also be key to how HS2 is operated concrete mix. Shortlisted for HS2’s Innovation Accelerator ‘these are some of the benefits we are after construction is completed. programme, Cloud Cycle estimates it could reduce seeing’. It has been a joint effort.” “With the digital twin, we’re not concrete used on phase one by up to 420,000 tonnes. Included in that joint effort is only going to have this holistic view of 5 Zahiroddiny’s 20-plus team: a team the railway, to validate and verify that Drones for tree-planting Another firm picked for Innovation Accelerator backing with a mixture of both construction it meets all of our requirements and is Dendra, which has created a drone and AI platform and non-construction backgrounds. that we can operate it, but we’re also to plant and monitor the 140-mile green corridor along She explains: “I’m not an engineer leaving something for our end-user, the route. The system learns how to identify the 46 tree by profession myself – I come from the state operator, to take and run species planted and monitor their health. a computer sciences background. with,” she says. ●
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TOLENT DIGS DEEP IN DURHAM THE GIANT MILBURNGATE DEVELOPMENT ON DURHAM’S RIVERSIDE HAS REQUIRED A COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTURE PHASE, INCLUDING A MONSTER RETAINING WALL. JAMIE HARRIS SPEAKS TO MAIN CONTRACTOR TOLENT’S PROJECT MANAGER
“On a project like this you become 70% of the entire development, with the The superstructures homes, and 60,000 sq ft of retail space, blasé about the normal challenges.” project commencing the following June. of the retail units including restaurants and a cinema. and hotel have now Michael Rutherford is project Situated against a picturesque been finished The Milburngate development manager for Tolent Construction on backdrop which includes Durham Castle will sit proudly in the heart of the the 450,000 sq ft, £120m mixed-use and Durham Cathedral on the banks of historic city centre’s landscape upon Milburngate development in Durham. the River Wear and located on a UNESCO completion. And despite global The north-east-based firm was World Heritage site, the scheme pandemic-related setbacks for the appointed main contractor on phase comprises a 92-bed hotel, 5,000 sq ft sector, this project remains on track one of the scheme at the beginning of of speculative office space, three build- to meet its targeted finish date in 2019, which includes construction of to-rent apartment blocks with 153 new November this year.
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Tolent was appointed in early 2019 to the £120m mixed-use £120m development
Complex groundwork The scale of the development is impressive, but it has also posed several “The original programme, technical and logistical challenges out of a 26-month project, due to the compact nature and local required 14 months to build geography of the site. The most the retaining wall – but we got demanding facet of the work has been that down to 10 months” the design and construction of a 236m- Michael Rutherford, Tolent Construction long, three-storey-high retaining wall which runs along the southern and western boundaries of the site. groundwater at the site – which The construction of the retaining would impact how the piles for the wall was so complex that Tolent retaining wall could be installed. deemed the original solution Rutherford’s team at Tolent, unachievable at tender stage. together with its subcontractors and “The original programme, out specialists, including VolkerGround of a 26-month project, required Engineering and BGP, engineered a 14 months to build the retaining wall solution which took each of these – but we got that down to 10 months,” factors into account. explains Rutherford. The numbers illustrate the Groundworks required the use of the second-largest piling rig in the UK The complexity originates from the sheer scale of the project. The wall topography of the site. The wall twists required 20,000 cu m of concrete, Project team reinforcement cage lengths and how and turns around the site boundary, with 1,500 CFA piles ranging from Milburngate we get them down,” says Rutherford. and from west to east, the elevation 350mm to 1,200mm in diameter Phase One “We created a vibration plate to take difference is around 20m. Because of – and with 164 of the larger piles Client: the cages down, because once you drop MGH CARD LLP this, the wall is designed in 10 different installed to a depth of 25m. Client and them down about 20m, under their clusters across the different directions “At that point,” explains project architect: own weight, they tend to stick, so we and elevations. The team also needed Rutherford, “the piles were FaulknerBrowns have to vibrate them down into the Architects to factor in a changing soil profile; sufficiently strong enough to retain cage for the last 4 or 5m.” Main contractor housing was previously situated at the the bank side, but not with the water (shell and core): The reinforcement cages weighed southern end, while a gas works used pressure included into it.” Tolent Construction up to 6 tonnes and measured 22m. to sit at the northern end. As a result, the piles were installed Structural Tolent believes that they are among engineering: “The other thing to consider is with a 250mm gap between them Atkins / Billinghurst the heaviest and longest CFA cages to that we’re also in a flood zone,” in order to allow water to flow George & Partners ever be installed in the UK. says Rutherford. through and relieve any groundwater Value: £84.5m Besides the wall, there are another Sitting adjacent to the river, pressure on the retaining wall. Programme: 1,700 ground-bearing CFA piles which 128 weeks the project team faced a variable “The depth of the piles created support the main development. These Contract: hydrogeology profile – the flow of its own problems with regard to the Design and build range from 300m to 900mm and run Subcontractors: to a depth of 12 to 20m. Groundworks: Wyn Construction Logistical issues Steelwork: Finley Structures To complete this infrastructure work, Building services: Tolent required the use of the second- SES largest piling rig in the UK. The team deployed three piling rigs and a coring The 236m-long, rig for nearly six months. three-storey-high “Everybody is impressed at the design retaining wall was the most demanding of the wall itself, but the logistics are just facet of the work as significant,” explains Rutherford.
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“From an economical perspective, wall. We were working outside and you need to be producing enough we were able to socially distance.” volume for an onsite concrete Rutherford believes that this year batching plant to be a viable option,” could be more problematic, should says Rutherford. “It doesn’t lend itself restrictions continue to be enforced. to a normal piling project.” “By the middle of 2021 we will have But the use of the plant next to the a workforce of up to 450 people on site – river added additional risks. we will have in excess of 1,000 individual “We’ve had to create a space for a rooms where people will be working flood mitigation scheme,” explains in close contact with each other. Procuring enough concrete CGI showing Rutherford. “The original idea was to “The challenges also come with to maintain the project’s piling how the completed put the plant in this space, but there welfare facilities. People have to development programme became a major obstacle. will look was a risk of getting contaminant get washed, changed; they need There are limitations on heavy-duty into the river. We decided to flip somewhere to sit and eat. We have vehicle (HDV) movements within the our thinking; we placed all the site tripled the size of our facilities city centre for Tolent to comply with – accommodation into this zone to to accommodate this increase in a problem compounded by the World eliminate this risk.” workforce in the new year.” Heritage nature of the city. In addition, With the completion of the the sheer volume of concrete would Covid-19 impact retaining wall in mid-2020, Tolent be challenging to obtain locally. As with any active construction site began work on the superstructures of “We would have taken up the entire working in 2020, Milburngate was the development. The podium holding 100% capacity of all three local concrete also subject to covid-19 problems. the retail units has been completed, plants in the area,” says Rutherford. Despite an initial slowdown in March, while work on the residential building “They just weren’t going to do that.” Rutherford says that the team was lucky structures has begun. The steelwork And even if Tolent was able to to have avoided significant problems of the hotel is also complete, allowing procure an adequate supply and as work was still in its early stages. internal work to begin. adhere to vehicle movements, the “Covid didn’t hit us as hard this Phase two of the development, speed of delivery would have an Aerial view of the year because the work we were doing involving three office blocks, is due to impact on the project team’s ability Milburngate site at the time was with the retaining go out to tender later this year. ● to install the cages. “With the length of the cages, the slump of the concrete – the consistency of freshly made concrete – was significant. If it reduced, you simply wouldn’t get the cage in. If the vehicle got caught in traffic, time taken would allow the slump to slow down.” The decision was made to place a concrete batching plant on site. “We were producing anywhere between 160 to 200 cu m of concrete a day for a seven-month period,” says Rutherford. Tolent estimates that this reduced HDV movements by up to 40% across the first nine months of the project – at its busiest point, the onsite plant kept one wagon load every 15 minutes off Durham’s roads.
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“Many developers will need to pay to offset their impact on biodiversity” Jon Davies, RSK Wilding
“One option is a reforestation or wetland creation elsewhere in the world. However, the biodiversity metric used by the Department of Environment, Fishing and Agriculture (DEFRA) values offsetting less the further it is from the source of the impact. That’s partly to encourage UK biodiversity improvement following the prime minister’s September commitment to ensure that 30% of land is protected for nature by 2030. “Local biodiversity offsetting replaces a habitat with a new one nearby. These high-intervention approaches can require significant upfront capital costs, and it is not always easy to recreate specific habitats.” A less familiar, but more cost- effective and natural approach is commercial rewilding, argues Davies. REWILD THING: BUILDING “It’s a term often associated with reintroduction of animals like beavers BIODIVERSITY ‘NET GAIN’ and even wolves but is more commonly a ‘ground-up’ approach, creating the NEW ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION MEANS MANY PROJECTS WILL HAVE conditions for the land to regenerate TO DELIVER A 10% BIODIVERSITY NET GAIN – LIKELY ENCOURAGING AN itself naturally and be recolonised by INCREASE IN ‘COMMERCIAL REWILDING’. CM REPORTS insects and plants,” he explains. Achieving biodiversity net gain The new Environment Bill became law new build or refurbishment. In some through commercial rewilding on 31 December and will oblige many cases, developers will be able to requires firstly, identification of construction projects to deliver a 10% achieve the 10% biodiversity net gain ecologically degraded land local to the ‘biodiversity net gain’. It is a significant on site. However, most projects will construction project, then employing leap forward from the current situation, struggle to achieve this, believes ecologists and other environmental where developers only have to Jon Davies, head of environmental and land management specialists to ‘mitigate’ the impact of their projects. consultant RSK Wilding. design a rewilding strategy for the site This will affect any landowner “In practice many developers that suits its specific conditions. seeking planning consent under the will need to pay to offset their impact “The ecologists will advise on the Town & Country Planning Act, for on biodiversity,” he says. number of biodiversity units – the
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30% of UK land must be protected for nature by 2030, the government 30% announced in September
scorecard used by DEFRA to measure £10,000”, so the creation of 100 units net gain – that are likely to be would be worth £1m of biodiversity Balfour Beatty’s achieved on the land, plus the carbon offsetting revenue over the next 20-30 credits and other ‘natural capital’ years. “However, it all depends on rewilding in King’s Lynn
benefits could be accrued from the the types of habitat being created, Balfour Beatty is delivering The initiative involves commercial rewilding,” says Davies. land values, or the pricing structure a biodiversity net gain as creating enhanced “Once the strategy is decided, the chosen by the relevant local authority part of its work at Islington grassland areas, a reedbed establishment phase will likely involve if the developer is paying for an pumping station for King’s and installing barn owl stripping the topsoil to remove offset,” he says. Lynn Internal Drainage boxes on a plot to the west Board in Norfolk. of the pumping station site. chemical-laden substrates, creating So how do developers identify Although not a contract Balfour Beatty is using depressions, bunds and other features land away from their site for requirement, the contractor the Natural England to increase the micro-habitats, or commercial rewilding? proposed creating Biodiversity Metric 2.0, blocking drains in moorland to re-wet “There are many landowners, new habitat areas to which calculates biodiversity compensate for biodiversity losses and gains as a result the land and reawaken dormant peat. particularly farmers, who are keen to losses caused by the of development or land “The perimeter would then be fenced carry out rewilding work on land that construction work on the management changes, off, and for the next 20 to 30 years the is unproductive and difficult to making River Great Ouse. The client to plan and measure the land would be left alone. Ecologists a living from,” explains Davies. welcomed the idea. impact of the work. would monitor progress to ensure that “Rewilding has the potential to Construction on the Islington pumping station on the the figure quoted for the net increase in become an important income stream River Great Ouse; the rough grassland will be enhanced biodiversity units is actually achieved for farmers, especially given the as part of the biodiversity net gain work by the rewilding plan.” uncertainty around agricultural The DEFRA methodology for subsidies post-Brexit. calculating biodiversity units is “As commercial rewilding gains complex. It depends on the biodiversity momentum, some developers may present on the site, how rare existing group together to pay for larger habitats are, the current use of the rewilding projects, which not only area and the condition it is in. offset current developments but Davies says the current market ‘bank’ biodiversity credits to cover value of a biodiversity unit is “around future projects,” he adds. ●
Nottingham’s city-centre rewilding plan
space with wildlife habitats, reflecting the site’s history as a wetland, while also offering potential for urban farming. Influence managing director Sara Boland says: “It became apparent Location of the biodiversity net gain areas: enhanced in the first lockdown that as more grassland (in green); reedbed creation (in orange); barn owl people sought outdoor spaces, our boxes (yellow); plus the location of the pumping station (red) A plan to rewild part of Nottingham understanding of the social and spatial city centre was unveiled last month implications of covid-19 were only just by a landscape architect and the local being realised. Open space in cities is wildlife trust. often formal and structured and this The Broadmarsh shopping centre was is an opportunity for a completely left half-built when retailer Intu entered unfettered and wild approach to a administration last June, and the local substantial space.” council has not yet decided on a future She adds that rewilding of urban for the site. Meanwhile, Nottinghamshire spaces is more economical when Wildlife Trust has worked with Influence compared to the aftercare requirements Landscape Architects to reimagine the of heavily designed landscapes.
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Jacqueline Backhaus Trowers & Hamlins
The white paper envisages delivery of IS THIS REALLY THE infrastructure sitting with local authorities. They will be able to borrow against the END FOR SECTION 106? levy to fund new infrastructure but may be reluctant to do so if expected levy receipts WILL THE NEW NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE LEVY REPLACE SECTION 106, do not cover forecast expenditure. OR COULD IT REAPPEAR UNDER A NEW GUISE? JACQUELINE BACKHAUS All this could have a significant impact EXAMINES THE GOVERNMENT’S PLANNING WHITE PAPER on developments and local communities where infrastructure needs are considered necessary to make a development acceptable in planning terms. Developers may find themselves restricted from starting work and may miss the flexibility that s106 offers. While the white paper appears determined to abolish s106, a footnote states that “a Section 106 planning obligation could still be used to secure a covenant on the land, where necessary” for onsite affordable housing. This appears to keep the door open for s106 in some form, albeit not for wider infrastructure delivery. One issue not addressed in the white paper is the upside of the s106 system. A government-commissioned study, Incidence, Value and Delivery of Planning Obligations and Community Infrastructure Levy in England 2018-19, published the same month, acknowledged that “developers value the flexibility of s106, allowing both parties to Consultation closed on 29 October on the be easy. Testament to this is the CIL regime, reach pragmatic solutions to site-specific Planning for the Future white paper, which introduced in 2010 after years of debate – issues, even though the negotiation of s106 proposed reforms to modernise the planning remember planning gain supplement – and planning obligations can result in delay”. system. Some of the most radical ideas which sought to address identical concerns. To name but a few, s106 can secure suggest replacing both section 106 (s106) CIL is largely perceived to have failed due to local employment, sustainable transport planning obligations and the community its complexities and inflexibilities. mitigation, highway improvements, infrastructure levy (CIL) with a single Many will be pleased to see the back of CIL delivery and management of open space and national infrastructure levy. and developers will no doubt welcome changes community facilities, carbon offsetting and While we await the detail, there are such as payment of the new levy at the point connection to district energy networks, plus concerns as to whether this will provide a of occupation. But the government will need mitigation of any impact on biodiversity and simple and effective system to secure the to learn lessons from the CIL experiment. protected assets. Once again, s106 seems to delivery of local affordable housing, sustain- Viability issues and local priorities mean that a be in the firing line and its vital and flexible able transport and other local infrastructure. consistent and simple system will be extremely role in delivering infrastructure provision Delays in planning permissions due to s106 difficult to implement. Questions remain over and many other community benefits have negotiations are not uncommon, but delay how the new levy would work in areas with been completely overlooked. is often due to site-specific negotiations lower land values. Some may be unable to That’s why s106 is more likely to be that take account of detailed viability recover sufficient developer contributions to reformed or to reappear under a new guise issues. Replacing s106 with a mechanism pay for new infrastructure with a fixed levy, than be abolished completely. that secures necessary infrastructure and meaning more prosperous areas benefit, Jacqueline Backhaus is a partner at allows for site-specific mitigation would not widening the infrastructure divide. Trowers & Hamlins.
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in partnership with the CPA, it will play a key role in helping the sector to realise Peter Caplehorn Dr Steven Yeomans Construction Construction the transformation agenda set out in the Products Association Innovation Hub CLC Roadmap. Working with key initiatives and partners across industry, such as the National Digital LEXICON’S ROLE IN Twin and the UK BIM Alliance, we are creating a solution which will allow product HARMONISING PRODUCT DATA data – vital to ensuring quality, assurance and building safety – to be integrated, FACED WITH THE CHALLENGES OF DELIVERING HACKITT’S ‘GOLDEN THREAD’ coordinated and made machine-readable. AND THE CLC’S POST-COVID RECOVERY PLAN, THE LEXICON PRODUCT DATA Harmonising how the sector collects and PLATFORM WILL BE CENTRAL TO CONSTRUCTION’S DIGITAL FUTURE. manages product data will also be key in PETER CAPLEHORN AND DR STEVEN YEOMANS EXPLAIN supporting the development of a ‘golden thread’ of information that can be traced back to a credible source, as called for by Dame Judith Hackitt in her Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety following the Grenfell Tower fire. As well as providing construction firms and clients with the practical means of feeding into the golden thread, LEXiCON will also provide consistency and certainty and, in the longer term, improved lifecycle asset management functionality. After the upheaval of 2020, it is difficult to forecast what the future holds. However, we can safely predict that the future of construction will be digital, with a growing consensus around the need to accelerate the sector’s journey of transformation and a clear Construction is the backbone of our persists, the construction landscape has mandate from government in the recently economy, yet it is one of the few sectors yet changed considerably. Covid-19 has set a published National Infrastructure Strategy. to realise the value of digital technology wrecking ball to the construction economy Against this backdrop, the Hub and CPA will and data. The reasons are many, but the – and triggered a re-evaluation of many be stepping up our engagement with industry consequences are plain to see, nowhere practices and assumptions we’ve long in the months ahead, to ensure that LEXiCON more clearly than in the non-collaborative, taken for granted. is a key enabler of the sector’s transformative unstructured approach taken to the curation The Roadmap to Recovery, developed journey. While many industries are now of critical product data. earlier this year by the Construction reaping digital rewards, some parts of In 2016, work began on a solution to help Leadership Council (CLC), sets out a bold and construction are still paddling in the shallow address this problem. LEXiCON, a project ambitious plan for reform, with commitments end. We will not catch up overnight, but we initiated by the Construction Products to “drive up the use of digital technologies can make that journey easier for ourselves by Association (CPA) and BRE, envisaged across clients and throughout the supply tackling the remaining roadblocks, including a standardised process and software chain” and enable “better data and informa- coming together and agreeing how we curate platform that industry could use to agree tion sharing across the built environment crucial product data. ● common terms which would in turn be used to improve efficiency, productivity, Peter Caplehorn is chief executive of the to create product data templates (PDTs), sustainability and building safety”. Construction Products Association and freely available for any company to use. LEXiCON has now taken on a new Dr Steven Yeomans is the BRE’s digital Fast forward to 2020 and while the significance. Part of the Construction construction lead at the Construction challenge of fragmented product data Innovation Hub’s UKRI-funded programme, Innovation Hub.
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Since the Grenfell fire in 2017, more and calculated, in order to apportion an more claims for replacing defective Cladding appropriate amount to the party from cladding are reaching the courts. Depending whom the contribution is sought. on the case, it is important to understand remediation If there is no detail to the agreed sum, how contribution claims work. then the party seeking the contribution will In one current claim for cladding and contribution often have to engage an expert to calculate replacement, the main contractor has its quantum. This can be expensive after the agreed with the client to replace defective claims event and given the relative shortness of the cladding on a building for £2m but is now limitation period (only two years as opposed seeking to recoup the cost from the cladding THE COURTS ARE CURRENTLY to six or 12), limited time may restrict the subcontractor. In turn, the subcontractor CHOCK-FULL OF DEFECTIVE CLADDING accuracy of the expert’s assessment. is seeking a contribution from the CASES. GUY HIGGINBOTTOM LOOKS The parties to the principal claim can novated architect under the Civil Liability AT HOW CONTRIBUTION CLAIMS WORK agree a ‘round figure’, adjusting the (Contribution) Act 1978, alleging that the quantum with a balancing figure, which can practice was negligent in specifying the be a lump sum or calculated as a percentage cladding. The act provides that “any person addition or discount. liable in respect of any damage suffered by Secondly, in cases where the claim another person may recover contribution is settled by the defendant carrying from any other person liable in respect of out remedial work at its own cost, any the same damage (whether jointly with contribution sought from a designer by a him or otherwise)”. contractor is highly unlikely to be a physical However, no claim under the act can one. Instead, the contractor will be seeking a be brought later than two years after the financial contribution. principal claim is resolved, by either a judgement of the court or an arbitrator’s Urgent remedial works award, or where the parties settle the Therefore, it is essential to price the agreed dispute by agreeing the amount of scope of remedial works for which the compensation. The ‘compensation’ contribution is sought. In cases where includes a party either paying a sum of the remedial works had to be undertaken money, or paying in kind, such as carrying urgently, either by necessity or under the out specific remedial works. terms of settlement, the party seeking the contribution should describe the Contribution claims under the act circumstances under which the remedial The case of RG Carter Building Ltd v Kier work was procured. For example, if they had Business Services Ltd (formerly Mouchel to be carried out quickly, then it is unlikely Business Services Ltd) [2018] considered a the contractor would have time to obtain similar situation where, instead of paying, competitive tenders. the main contractor agreed to carry out Horatia House in Portsmouth had its cladding It is in all parties’ interests that the remedial works, and subsequently sought removed for fire safety after the Grenfell tragedy contribution claim can be resolved as swiftly a contribution from the designer. The as possible. This is not always achievable, court found that the two-year limitation as the contributing party may challenge the “No claim under the act can be started when the scope of remedial extent of its liability or the quantum of the brought later than two years after works was agreed. contribution being sought. The earlier that the principal claim is resolved, by This raises two practical points regarding expert opinions can be obtained, for both either a judgement of the court or contribution claims under the act. liability and quantum, the better the parties an arbitrator’s award, or where the Firstly, in cases where the principal and their legal advisors will be placed to parties settle the dispute by agreeing claim has been decided or settled for a raise and manage claims under the act. the amount of compensation” sum of money, it is important to have Guy Higginbottom is an independent some detail of how the agreed sum was contract consultant.
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Education Global Student Challenge returns for 2021 “The winning team will receive £2,000 in CIOB calls for entries for the seventh year of the online prize money at the 2021 construction management simulation contest Members’ Forum in Sydney”
DGC Toronto from George Brown College were last year’s challenge winners
compete in finals that attract talent from around the world. Previous winners have included Glasgow Caledonian University, George Brown College and Universitas Indonesia. The competition utilises Merit, an online game which simulates the management of a construction company. The winning team will receive £2,000 in prize money at the 2021 Members’ Forum in Sydney (dependent on covid-19 travel restrictions). The competition closes for entries on 14 April 2021. Teams will then be able to access game software, followed by six rounds of competition taking place The Global Student Challenge 2021 sees the seventh year over as many weeks. opened for 2021 on 1 December. of the competition, and the Finalists will be announced on Run by the Chartered Institute of challenge is seeking teams made up 25 May 2021, with the finals set to Building (CIOB) since 2014, the annual of full-time students studying a be held in June 2021. ● competition challenges students in degree in the built environment. Register now on the Global the built environment to run a After six weeks of competition, the Student Challenge web site: virtual construction company. leaders are given the opportunity to https://gsc.ciob.org.
Education The November lockdown put challenge. They delivered as Members of the Alliance team paid to plans to run the Annual much of the real construction site working on the project, including Yorkshire Student Yorkshire Student Challenge experience as they could. Dan Marsh from BAM Construction, (run in conjunction with Sheffield Five colleges from across the provided a briefing to the students, Challenge faces Hallam University) in person, but region submitted teams, working supported by Sheffield Hallam off lockdown the Sheffield Hub Committee, on the logistics of running a site University senior lecturer Tim determined to keep this in a constrained space featuring Jones. The judging panel involved experience running for students limited access and while keeping members of the Alliance team Virtual format enabled event across Yorkshire, converted the surrounding area open for and the Sheffield Hub committee to go ahead in lockdown the format to work as a virtual business. including chair John Caudwell.
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Health New open-source building standard
Story for Community? Email Nicky Roger seeks models [email protected] Health-based certification
Heritage CIOB member Dr Darren Allen DBA FCIOB MRICS, development manager CIOB’s own ‘Indiana Jones’ with Genesis Property, is looking for buildings to become the first to takes up new role promote a new ground-breaking Member John O’Keeffe takes up CEO post building standard. With a strategy to engineer in Ireland’s Discovery Programme safer built environments for people and organisations returning to their offices, the Immune Building Standard has been developed as an Division (formerly the Built Heritage open-source global standard for the built environment. Directorate) since 2007. LEADER The standard is a set of measures, With more than 25 years FOR NEW technical solutions and facility of postgraduate professional HIGHLANDS management practices to certify how experience in archaeology, he has HUB built environments can withstand developed an expert knowledge of present and future health challenges Alasdair Murray, and minimise the impact of a heritage management, academic principal building pandemic such as covid-19, and other research and built heritage standards bacteriological or toxicological threats. conservation, alongside a practical surveyor, Highland The standard is inspired by Council, has been application of core personnel technologies and procedures announced as successfully applied in hospitals and and project management skills. the chair of the ‘clean rooms’ and adapted for use in He holds an honours degree in Highland and commercial real estate development. Archaeology (awarded 1995), and Islands Hub. Immune can be used by any “Dr O’Keeffe’s eminent a PhD in Archaeology and Heritage Sharon Barrie, international building assessment standing in archaeology in programme and certification entity to certify Management (awarded 2008). manager (property), Ireland and his track record in buildings at any stage of their life O’Keeffe joined the Department Highland Council, cycle and type, such as new, in-use, the Northern Ireland Civil Service of the Environment in Northern takes on the role of or a regeneration project. will be a major asset to the Ireland in 1998, having been vice chair. The current open source document The hub Discovery Programme” involved in contract archaeology is dedicated to office buildings only launched in October and it can be adapted to certify other Paul Walsh, Discovery Programme Board following graduation from the and officially opens building types such as hospitality, Queen’s University of Belfast in on 1 January 2021. retail, healthcare, education and 1995. He has worked across all It will run a residential. Buildings must meet series of events set criteria and will be measured on The Discovery Programme at aspects of archaeology and the to establish the a score index resulting in either a the Centre for Archaeology and management of historic monuments network, welcome resilient, powerful or strong label. new members and Innovation in Ireland has appointed in Northern Ireland. As the standard is open source, discuss issues of CIOB member Dr John O’Keeffe as its In announcing the appointment more contributors are also being specific interest. new chief executive officer. Paul Walsh, acting chair of the sought, to join the scientists, engineers “We are always and architects already on board. The Discovery Programme’s Discovery Programme board, said: ready to welcome Allen says the standard is mission is to explore Ireland’s “Dr O’Keeffe’s eminent standing in more people to the attracting widescale attention: group and to serve past and its cultural heritage by archaeology in Ireland and his track “The Immune Building Standard on the committee, conducting advanced research in Irish record in the Northern Ireland Civil is the first standard dedicated to and I would be health within the built environment. archaeology and related disciplines Service will be a major asset to the happy to speak We have seen a large interest and and by disseminating its findings Discovery Programme at a time of to anyone who is engagement from leading tier 1 interested in being widely to the global community. change and development for the consultants, architects etc. and more involved with Before taking his new post, O’Keeffe organisation. have been interviewed by media the CIOB,” said like FT, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, (pictured) was a senior manager in Before taking up the post in Murray. the Northern Ireland Civil Service, November 2020, O’Keeffe said “I’m Bloomberg, Sky, to name a few.” Contributors span the globe and principal inspector of historic honoured to be offered the post, include Mace in London. For full details monuments and has been assistant looking forward to joining a great see www.immune-building.com. director of the Historic Environment team, and ready to go!” ●
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“The plans are set to make all five levels – from basement to battlements – fully accessible for the first time in the structure’s history”
reached a significant milestone, when project contractor Morgan Sindall Construction commenced the substantive work required to recreate the Keep’s original 12th century layout. Ensuring the trip back through nine centuries can be enjoyed by the maximum number of visitors is integral to the project’s aims. The plans are set to make all five levels – Renovation The Eastern Hub is running a series from basement to battlements – fully of virtual site visits to Norwich accessible for the first time in the Castle for keeps Castle where a £13.5m renovation structure’s history. has begun. This project will run into Later phases will see innovative Eastern Hub runs virtual visits 2022 and the CIOB will follow the uses of projections and digital to Morgan Sindall’s Norwich project through to completion. technologies to animate the building Castle project for members The National Lottery Heritage with the sights and sounds of King Fund supported scheme recently Henry I’s East Anglian fortress. ●
If covid has left you facing “I had always thought that I was project managing on a cruise redundancy then take heart from would become my own boss in ship, so I became their client. CIOB member Paul Tedoré. Now my mid to late 50s. When this “Every single one can be an director of Fir Tree Project Services, opportunity arose it seemed right.” influencer in your success. A quiet Tedoré (pictured) was made Paul says contacts made over word from a fixer to the boss can redundant at age 50 in October 2018 his career helped hugely. “When I make a difference to you getting after around 35 years in the joinery, announced that I was working for the next project.” shopfitting and fitout industry. myself I had quite a few calls to Until 2020 Tedoré was chair of He had worked his way up to offer support and work. My career the CIOB Southampton Hub. The director position for a specialist has been quite diverse, so some last two years as Fir Tree Project division of an international potential clients homed in on my Services has seen him travel across New start organisation but when he faced bid support experience, others my the globe working on projects redundancy he says he “readily estimating or quantity surveying ranging from luxury residential, Member inspires grabbed the opportunity to set skills and others my project marine outfitting, a fitout of Harrods up on my own”. management capabilities. and commercial joinery projects. hope amidst “Losing the security of a “In this way I was able to He even sailed the lockdown regular wage, sick pay, paid quickly start work within a month storm. “I am a limited company, redundancy holiday, company car, pension of redundancy and earn a wage. trading for less than two years and and health insurance was a little “Even the company I was therefore I was not able to gain Paul Tedoré’s story shows daunting. But it was down to me made redundant from has assistance from grants or furlough that change can be positive to make something from it. produced joinery for a project I myself, but I haven’t needed it.”
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Dublin Novus Irish Hub swaps chairs Novus launches Derek Cassidy takes over recruitment drive the reins from John Sweeney as in Ireland chair of the Dublin Hub Call to young professionals
The CIOB’s Novus will be more important than ever is seeking young and that he would like to see more CIOB IN construction Fellows and would like to strengthen NORTH professionals to ties with the Belfast Hub. join the community BUILDS in Ireland. Novus Cassidy will be taking the reins from LINKEDIN provides the John Sweeney, contracts manager CIOB in the north opportunity to have with Collen Construction, who is working to a voice within the chaired the hub for two years, seeing develop its LinkedIn CIOB and the wider industry. through the changes of OneCIOB and Group – growing James McAtasney, a project manager membership at Northern Ireland Housing Executive, the year overshadowed by covid-19. and sharing key recently joined Novus in Belfast. He Incoming chair Derek Cassidy (left) and his Sweeney was chair for events in updates. has worked with members to deliver predecessor John Sweeney 2019 including the largest CMYA Open to anyone presentations promoting the benefits of event to date in Ireland when Alan interested in CIOB membership to university students. the activities McAtasney says he has been Barnes was crowned winner, the excited to get involved and urges “Cassidy says qualifications and of the CIOB in Members’ Forum in Edinburgh and the Northern others to follow suit. “I now have professionalism will be more the Global Student Challenge. Region, this group the opportunity to share personal important than ever and that And in 2020 he steered the features key policy experiences with the next generation he would like to strengthen committee through planning around messages and of members and work alongside like- ties with the Belfast Hub” events, celebrates minded professionals who I can count covid-19, CPDs and planning virtual achievements of on to provide me with advice and events. CPD attendances rose sharply members and CBCs, support when needed,” he said. through the use of webinars. and facilitates “I am hoping to develop my own Derek Cassidy becomes the new He will be still involved in the discussions on personal attributes throughout topical issues my time with Novus and build a chair of the CIOB Dublin Hub in CIOB as PR champion and member of facing the industry. network of connections within the January. He has worked in the the CIOB Education, Qualifications, You can search industry. This will not only benefit my construction industry for over 25 Standards and Practice Board. for your local group progression but potentially enhance years, beginning with Sisk, and is now On handing over, Sweeney wished on LinkedIn. future career opportunities as well.” operations manager with Ardmac. Cassidy “the very best of luck” and If you are interested in joining, contact Julie Fitzsimmons: For his year ahead, Cassidy says added: “I hope that you enjoy it as [email protected]. qualifications and professionalism much as I did.” ●
Talk The Midlands and Eastern calendar review. On behalf of the CIOB, Building Regs update, followed by is kicking off the new year with a Dawber chaired Working Group 9 Damien West, area manager and Trio of experts webinar, Three Leading Experts Talk – Site Supervisors. head of fire protection, prevention talk safety Building Regs & Building Safety, He will also talk about the and fire investigation with where three prestigious speakers PAS Competence Framework for Nottinghamshire Fire & Rescue will talk live. construction professionals being Service, who will talk about the CIOB Trustee Peter Dawber will developed by the BSI – the follow‑up Fire Service approach to firefighting give an overview of his involvement work to Raising the Bar – on which in tall buildings. with the CIC final report Setting the he is representing the CIOB. The webinar will take place on Dawber, Cymler and West will Bar, which outlines the industry Richard Cymler, regional director January 13 at 12pm. See Diary Dates lead in-depth webinar response to Dame Judith Hackitt’s at Ball & Berry, will provide a on p55 for more details.
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Chartered status “We are also looking to grow the Webinar business over the next few years, and Novus members CIOB north we felt achieving CBC status would strengthen our position to attract the offer tips on scores CBC right candidates to allow us move the industry forward as a business.” hat trick Established in 2015, PA Jessop Leeds young professionals provides project/design management, speak about starting out Three welcomed on one day technical support, planning and delay analysis to construction firms, as well The CIOB in the north welcomed as project monitoring and clients’ clerk The Leeds Novus group held a three new CBCs on the same day at of works role. Director Phil Jessop said “We felt webinar titled ‘Welcome to the end of 2020: H&W Surveying becoming CBC was “a pivotal milestone”. achieving CBC Construction: Your First Years in the and Consulting, PA Jessop and “Having chartered status gives our status would Industry’ in the autumn. PKL Partners. clients an extra level of confidence in strengthen Three local young professionals, H&S Surveying and Consulting the company, knowing that they are our position to chaired by Sam Dibaj, chair of works mainly in the insurance sector using a CIOB-endorsed business, and attract the right Leeds Hub, spoke about their for clients of large loss general perils from a marketing perspective, this candidates experience of starting out in the (fire, flood, escape of water) but has will allow PA Jessop to grow from to allow us to construction industry, offering seen growth in non-insurance work, strength to strength,” he said. move forward tips on how to get the best start on particularly student accommodation. PKL Partners was established in as a business” career paths and things they wish Director Keith Wakeley said there 1982 and offers services across a Keith Wakeley, they had done differently. were various reasons for wanting to variety of sectors. Director Kevin H&S Surveying Lydia McGuinness, co-chair of achieve CBC status. “It was primarily to Lockley said: “Achieving CBC status and Consulting G4C Yorkshire and Humber and demonstrate professional competence demonstrates to clients, both old and trainee site manager at Henry in the marketplace in which we work; new, that we are constantly evolving Boot Construction, described the it is reassuring for current clients to achieve the highest standards challenges and benefits of studying and future clients to work with a possible with a mark of distinction and working at the same time and chartered company,” he said. that they know they can trust.” ● raised her experience of being a young female in a male-dominated industry – particularly working Dorset-based SME Spetisbury on site. Construction – a CIOB CBC – has received an award from the UK’s largest health Danielle Fleming, senior building and safety consultancy, the Building surveyor at East Riding of Yorkshire, Safety Group (BSG). discussed changing direction in The accolade, for best practice in her career and the huge benefits of health and safety, was presented to director Martyn Openshaw (pictured) mentoring and being an ambassador and managing director Justin Ives by to young people. BSG last autumn. Jake Morrish, chair of Novus Ives credited the team and said he was Apology Leeds and assistant site manager proud to win the award. “Building Safety In Construction at Redrow Homes, described what BSG Awards Group has been a long-standing partner Manager, November/ a normal day in his role looked of ours and have assisted in achieving December on p50 Dorset CBC wins and maintaining this standard. It is great the picture caption like and also talked about some of H&S award to have achieved this recognition when erroneously names the benefits of working towards his they have so many other good member Paul Mansell. There professional qualification organisations,” he said. Spetisbury Construction was in fact no with CIOB. The BSG Awards is a national celebration photograph of Paul. recognised for best practice The session was really well of businesses’ dedicated commitment We apologise for to Health and Safety in construction. any inconvenience received by those who attended and this caused. will be available online.
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Kwesi Amsterdam MCIOB Diary dates Meet a member Highlights of the CIOB Calendar Kwesi Amsterdam, for the coming month. All events design and build are online webinars unless contractor, otherwise stated Guyana
Three Leading Experts Talk Building with health in mind. Dr Darren Allen DBA Why did you choose the to teaching/lecturing to give Regs and Building Safety FCIOB MRICS, Immune project director and construction industry? back to society my fair share January 13, 12-1.30 pm development manager of Genesis Property, will What else might you have of knowledge and experience Join us for this unique opportunity to hear tackle the launch of the standard, what Immune done for a living? gained over the years. from Peter Dawber, Richard Cymler and is, how it works as well as the objectives and My professional career Damien West, talking about their input into the benefits (see p49 for more details). started off in teaching. The What do you like about the current legislation, recent changes to the Contact: [email protected] same year I completed industry and what would Building Regulations, and how the industry secondary education I taught you like to see change? can help the Fire Service with the challenges Transgender issues in the workplace maths to grades 9 and 11 I love the satisfaction of a they face (see p51 for more details). January 28, 6-7pm students and technical completed project and that Contact: [email protected] Employment solicitor David Gibson and drawing. I attended classes every project is unique: it fashion designer Lydia Bellamy have in the afternoon to further could be the design, the Towards Net Zero Carbon teamed up to deliver an informative and expand my technical challenge it presents in January 20, 9-10.15am practical guide to transgender issues in drawing (architecture and thinking or methodology, the Wales has strong sustainable policies and the workplace. construction) skills. location that differs, or the targets including ‘Towards Zero Carbon This key area of employment law has These two activities attitude of the work force by 2050’. ICE Wales Cymru is hosting an received increased prominence following continued simultaneously when measured against a interprofessional debate to discuss these, the groundbreaking case of Taylor v Jaguar for two years and at the end new project or where a client with a keynote address by Sophie Howe, Land Rover where JLR was fined £180,000 of the technical drawing is hard to deal with. future generations commissioner for Wales. for breach of the Equality Act 2010. course, I enrolled at the In my location, Latin Join us and other members of the Built Gibson will highlight the key legal university and pursued a BSc America/Caribbean and more Environment Alliance Cymru (ICE, CEW, RICS, principles and Bellamy will guide you in Architecture. Because this so in Guyana, there is a need RTPI, CIH, RSAW and CIAT) to debate these through practical dress code issues to was a full-time course, I had to for improved construction matters that affect the future of us all. ensure that transgender workers are resign from my teaching job. training. I think the custom Contact: [email protected] respected within the workforce. I did not choose of the day is that everyone is The seminar will last approximately construction, it choose me. repeating the styles, patterns Identifying Confined Space Hazards, 50 minutes and there will be time for I ended up in the technical and approach learned over Risks and Control Measures. questions. drawing class in high school time. This means, if an error January 21, 1-2pm Contact: [email protected] because my friends were was practised in the past, it The aim of this webinar is to make in that class. I had no clue would become a normal and delegates aware of: Daytona Speedway Design & Build or interest in technical acceptable mistake of today. l What confined spaces are; February 3, 6.30-7.30pm drawing; I was just following I would therefore like to l What hazards and risk require controlling; CIOB past president Chris Soffe will the crowd. However, see a greater presence and l What competencies are required for entry discuss the reconstruction of the iconic because one of my personal involvement of CIOB locally, into a space; and grandstand at Daytona International attributes is determination as a brand ambassador in l Why rescue plans must be in place. Raceway in Florida. The owner’s challenge – always completing what construction training. This presentation will be delivered by was to deliver this 101,000 seat facility I have started – I remained Peter Jackson, health and safety advisor by an immovable deadline for the 2015 and persevered in those What do you do in your and compliance training officer for Daytona 500 race. classes and grew to have spare time? Jackson & Jackson. Construction had to take place through an understanding and I love movies and watch my Contact: [email protected] two hurricane seasons, and allow for appreciation of the nature of favourites repeatedly. I also two reduced capacity Daytona 500s and technical drawing. read: I’ve just finished The Immune – World’s First open-source other race meets to take place without If I did not gravitate to 7 Habits of Highly Effectively Healthy by Design Building Standard interruption. the construction industry, People by Stephen R Covey, January 28, 2-3pm The success was in the pre-planning, the I would have most likely and am currently reading Join us to discuss the Immune Building design, the risk allocation and of course a remained in the teaching. In Choice Theory by William Standard – the first open-source standard fabulously committed project team. the near future. I will return Glasser MD. for the built environment that is designed Contact: [email protected]
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weir and Jesus Green weir has 10 bridges, rather than nine (excluding other construction works that we are unaware of, of course!) Now “The project has been a this phase is complete, plant and real-life example of true machinery will be able to access the collaboration between Master’s Garden at the back of Old client, professional team Court, the heart of Clare College, to and contractor” Alex Drouet, Barnes Construction start work in earnest. We are working with an impressive consultancy team, Cam during the early hours of the made up of London architecture morning. All issues were resolved by firm Witherford Watson Mann and having clear and focused leadership, a two Cambridge-based businesses, superb supply chain with a ‘can-do’ structural engineer Smith and attitude, and a dedicated site team to Wallwork and Henry Riley, which is make it happen. the cost consultant and client project Despite having to stop works due manager. Max Fordham will provide to tree root issues, our subcontractor the services design for the main works. agreed to manually undertake the reduced dig in the Fellows’ Bridging the gap Garden, wheelbarrowing tonnes Me and my project The original plans included using of spoil out and tonnes of type 1 the existing Clare Bridge – the aggregate into the site to maintain University challenge oldest in Cambridge and a Grade I programme while we waited for the listed structure – for site access. tree issues to be resolved. Alex Drouet MCIOB, design manager with We worked with the incumbent This was just one example of the Barnes Construction, talks us through design team and our temporary real-time problem-solving that enabling works at Clare College, Cambridge works engineer Gawn Associates helped deliver the bridge lift on to develop an alternative proposal programme. utilising a temporary bridge, with Another major headache We were appointed in September site access via the Fellows’ Garden. included concluding the second 2019 to deliver the pre-construction There were huge co-ordination stage pricing, and the enabling phase of works for the £12.4m issues that required complex works construction during the extension and refurbishment discussions and a collaborative first lockdown in April. Our supply works of Clare College’s Old Court approach from everyone from the chain was resolute and ensured buildings, which included an college’s gardening committee, the we were able to deliver the second enabling period of 16 weeks to environment agency, highways, stage figure within budget, as well construct two bridges, one of which planning, arboriculturists, as the bridge lift on programme in
would link the Fellows’ Garden with PHOTOGRAPHY NIXON PAUL neighbouring colleges, statutory preparation for the main demolition the Master’s Garden and the working utilities companies and archaeologists. and substructure works progressing Top and top right: area in the North Passage. The bridge spans Our approach to this was always in November. The 57m long bridge, which was the Cam from the open and collaborative – our The project has been a once-in-a- built and craned into place overnight Fellows’ Garden to pre-construction team were full-time lifetime experience, and a real-life by Mabey, now sits between the the Master’s Garden on the project from September 2019 example of true collaboration Garret Hostel Bridge and Clare Above: Alex Drouet, through to August 2020. between client, professional team design manager, College Bridge: the oldest bridge in Once on site, we encountered issues and contractor – and an example Barnes Construction Cambridge. This means that for the with unknown tree roots and CBR of how well a two-stage method of first time since the 1960s, the Middle issues for the 500 tonne crane that procurement works if managed and River of the Cam between mill pond lifted the 28m long span over the River operated properly. ●
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Institute of Apprenticeships and Carving a role Technical Education. Last year we were thrilled to be a PAYE Conservation on how one apprentice gold sponsor of the CIOB Conservation stonemason’s experience highlights a way Conference, which highlighted the loss forward for closing the skills gap of traditional craft skills for historic buildings and discussed the modern role of the apprentice. It considered the role in a changing landscape and how we employ traditional skills in modern For years we have read about the methods of working. The simple truth threat posed by the skills gap and is that the landscape evolves, and we the potential cost to organisations must with it, but without a skilled “I find the process of and the wider economy, but the gap workforce the work will grind to a a skilled craft to be remains. Craft skills are not only halt and cracks, both metaphorically interesting and the essential to maintaining and growing and physically, will appear. results are satisfying” our infrastructure, but also ensuring Every year offers fresh challenges in Dylan Manktelow, PAYE Conservation our built heritage is preserved for securing the interest of young people future generations. into our apprentice scheme, but we do PAYE Conservation, a specialist succeed more often than not. Ahead of Smithfield, one of London’s highest- division of PAYE Stonework and the CIOB Conservation Conference we profile sites. It is being converted Restoration, is proud to have such an created a short promotional video to into an exciting new venue for the Above right: important role in the preservation Senior stonemason help draw attention to the conference Museum of London and is where and protection of historic buildings Mat Millen gives but also to bring into focus the person Manktelow is learning his trade. and we are committed to the a letter-carving on everyone’s mind: the apprentice. His decision to pursue a career as tutorial development of craft apprentices We filmed a letter-carving tutorial a stonemason was influenced by the through our own apprentice scheme, Below: Apprentice with our apprentice Dylan Manktelow opportunity to be creative in his work. Dylan Manktelow our talks in schools, college open displays the and senior stonemason Mat Millen “I find the process of a skilled craft days and our relationship with the finished result in our masons’ workshop at West to be interesting and the results are satisfying,” he said. He is particularly looking forward to “working on historic buildings and learning from experienced stonemasons”. As he embarks on his journey, we are committed to helping him realise his ambition. Our investment in our apprentices is an investment in the future of skilled craft, but we need more young people like Dylan Manktelow. The challenges of making what we do attractive to a school leaver are laid bare, but thanks to the initiative and efforts across the sector, and to events like the CIOB 2020 Conservation Conference, the way forward is clearer than ever. ● To see the letter-carving demonstration, visit www.paye.net/ ciob-conference-2020.
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Prison break
Stephen Simpson offers an insight into Cidon Construction’s positive experience of working to Training & Recruitment rehabilitate ex-offenders
an insurance-funded repair project on a Seetec Justice, a training organisation, is committed Job spotlight barn. The afternoon was spent in one of Katherine Mortlock to working with employers our mansions with a structural engineer Senior building surveyor (Norfolk, Suffolk to break down barriers & Essex Coast), National Trust and conservation specialist, discussing when it comes to hiring repairs to ornate plaster ceilings. ex-offenders. There are ex-offenders who may have the right skill set required for their The remainder of the day was spent trade but often struggle to access new work returning missed phone calls and opportunities once they are released. TRUST ISSUES answering emails. According to the Ministry of Justice, only 17% of prisoners leave with a job and half of FROM CONSERVATION REPAIRS TO Does working for the National Trust employers say they cannot see the value in MANSIONS TO MANAGING BUDGETS, employing someone who has been in prison. demand specialist skills/knowledge? KATHERINE MORTLOCK’S WORKING At Cidon we are bucking this trend, having Yes, obviously traditional skills and taken on 12 ex-offenders with the support of DAY AS A BUILDING SURVEYOR WITH conservation repairs feature strongly. Seetec Justice. The successful partnership THE NATIONAL TRUST IS NEVER DULL There is a wealth of knowledge within the started back in 2018 after I heard a radio discussion about helping ex-offenders to National Trust, so if I don’t know the answer, rehabilitate, find work, access housing and I have a number of willing colleagues who break the cycle of crime. are happy to share their knowledge. More businesses like us need to get Having said that, there are also the involved, we’re only a very small cog in a huge maintenance issues that you would wheel. If we can take 12 ex-offenders in the space of 18 months, then a lot can be done. It’s expect at any site: water leaks, roof important to educate other business leaders leaks and sewage problems to name a few, about the benefits of employing ex-offenders. it’s just that some of the infrastructure is Seetec believes that ex-offenders are one more historic and this can present group in our society that can sometimes feel they are forgotten during challenging social additional challenges. and economic times. Only by challenging existing perceptions about ex-offenders and What are the challenges/rewards stressing that many have valuable skills, of your role? either acquired before entering prison or Every job has its challenges, and this one is gained while in prison, will more progress be made in eliminating barriers to work. no different; from ensuring we are getting In an 18-month period, Seetec Justice value for money while also maintaining a supported 200 prisoners in preparation high quality of workmanship to managing for their release, arranging day release budgets for short-term cyclical tasks, the opportunities and engaging with local employers. This resulted in nearly half of them challenges of my role are probably very securing offers of employment for when they similar to most other building surveying were released, nearly three times the usual roles. As for rewards – I don’t think I will employment figure for male prisoners. ever lose the thrill of being able to access all One ex-offender taken on by Cidon was areas of these amazing buildings. concerned about his chances of finding employment after release. James heard about To work on these iconic buildings, knowing the rehabilitation programme in prison and, that the work I do will ensure they continue as he had acquired labouring skills while Describe a typical day in your job? to survive and be enjoyed by people for years serving time, felt it was a great opportunity. As with many surveying roles, there is no to come makes this my dream job. ● He joined us on release and has gone on to gain an NVQ in joinery. James has such thing as a typical day. My role is a great appealed to companies which aren’t part mix of site-based activity and desk time. of rehabilitation programmes: “Everyone Yesterday was a site day; I try to make deserves a second chance, Cidon have best use of my time while at a property, so invested in me and that has boosted my I visited a couple of our holiday cottages confidence. I think other employers should follow their example.” to assess reported damage following the Hundreds of the best jobs in construction. Stephen Simpson is a director recent storms. I then had a pre-start meeting Recruitment news and insight. of Cidon Construction. with a contractor and tenant farmer for www.constructionmanagerjobs.co.uk
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