The University of East Anglia (UEA) is an internationally renowned university that provides academic, social and cultural facilities to over 13,000 students.<\/p>\n
Our Program, Cost, Consultancy team was appointed as integrated project and cost managers for the development of new student residences on the campus.<\/p>\n
The project initially had a budget of \u00a316m, representing the first phase of the development of 401 units in an overall development masterplan to the eastern end of the University campus.<\/p>\n
Following the completion of phase one, the University instructed our team to proceed with design development to RIBA Stage D&E, on the basis of reducing project costs by \u00a32,000 per unit. With an agreed contract sum negotiated with the contractor, phase two was incorporated as a variation to the phase one contract, in full consultation with the University’s solicitors.<\/p>\n
Phase two involved the development of 886 further units with an overall construction cost of around \u00a340m. The buildings were built on poor ground conditions, and, as a result, have piled foundations.<\/p>\n
Each building was constructed with concrete crosswall and a combination of render-facing blockwork, timber-clad elevations, monopitch and curved roofs; and prefabricated bathroom pods in concrete shells.<\/p>\n
We led a series of value engineering workshops to establish the necessary changes to the development, without compromising quality or functionality. Modifications to the core projections, building footprint and roof profile, together with a substantial number of minor changes to the interior design, contributed towards a \u00a32,000 saving per unit on the project cost, and a building-only cost of \u00a326,000 per unit.<\/p>\n
We played a critical role in helping the University to achieve value for money and its overall targets. The residences have been widely acclaimed as some of the most innovative in the U.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3244,"template":"","tags":[],"city":[325],"class_list":["post-20549","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","city-norfolk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/20549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/20549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20549"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/baltics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=20549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}