AECOM has been appointed by the Royal Opera House (ROH) to deliver a full asset condition service of its site in Covent Garden, London. AECOM will make recommendations for the repair of the historic ROH and Production Workhouse.
The project will involve building and MEP services for the life cycling profiling of the buildings to ascertain the condition of the fabric and MEP assets. AECOM’s building and MEP surveyors, with support from the company’s heritage consultants, will collect survey data using Kykloud via iPads, a highly intuitive software package that translates output directly into reports. Kykloud has been designed as a tool to reduce the end-to-end reporting time by 50-60%. This is achieved by using a pre-determined template specific to each client’s requirements, and includes pre-populated site and asset data. A series of workflows and validation rules are built into the design to ensure consistently accurate data is collected efficiently on site.
Image courtesy of the Royal Opera House 2012
AECOM will inform data capture requirements by first exploring objectives and aspirations of the ROH in order to ensure what is captured will provide the intelligence sought after. Through this process AECOM is able to provide the client with reports that have informed master planning, future budgets and target potential replacements.
As well as helping to target future investment, the scheme is providing the client with useful condition data about their sites. Through its surveys, AECOM is gathering high-level contextual evidence about the ROH’s assests, the site and the buildings within it, as well as condition data for each building and information about key building management and compliance documentation.
The amount of data to be reviewed, generated and managed will be significant given the size of the buildings and coordinating this across the team within the required timescale will require robust, streamlined systems and correct use of the available technology.
Helena Rivers, Regional Director, AECOM, said: “We are proud to be delivering a project at such a prestigious site, bringing the most up-to-date survey technology to such a historic and much-loved building. AECOM has extensive experience and proven track record in delivering condition and asset surveys across large and varied property portfolios including historically important properties. Often these are undertaken within challenging time and logistical constraints. Work of this nature is core to our business and we are passionate about what we do.”
Copyright Will Pearson, courtesy of the Royal Opera House
Work will commence in August.
AECOM has extensive experience of using software based data collection and has used Kykloud to survey approximately 9,000 buildings in the past five years. This includes its involvement in the Property Data Survey Programme (PDSP) and the Condition Data Collection (CDC) on behalf of the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) in the UK, which is understood to be the largest survey exercise ever undertaken in Europe.
