1. Jon Noble, Associate Director Alex Sargent, Principal Engineer
July 21, 2019
Building Bond Street
Jon Noble, Associate Director
Alex Sargent, Principal Engineer

2. Bond Street Conception Funding and Governance Contractual Arrangements
Design Development
Costing
Cost Reduction
Materials
Construction Method
Utilities
Drainage
Managing Cost on Site
Questions

3. Bond Street - Connected
The Great Estates
Grosvenor
Crown
Portland

4. Bond Street - Influential
Retailers 
Hotels
Restaurants
Art
Culture

5. Bond Street - Disjoint + £1b annual turnover
+ Global renown for Art, Luxury Retail and Fashion
-Aging infrastructure
-Traffic dominated
-Unable to cope with 74% increase in pedestrians for Elizabeth Line?

6. Bond Street – Conception 2015
Concept design led by Publica on behalf of Westminster City Council, and New West End Company

7. Bond Street – Concept - Fenwick

8. Bond Street – Concept - Fenwick
Size/weight
Time - disruption
Cost

9. Bond Street – Concept – Shared

10. Bond Street – Concept – Central

11. Bond Street – Concept – Town Square

12. Bond Street – Concept - Old

13. 2015 - Funding and Governance
Design adopted
Funding sought:
New West End Company (bid)
Private funders (inc Great Estates)
Transport for London
Westminster City Council
GLA Growing Places Fund
£10m found and committed

14. 2015 - Funding and Governance
Strategic decisions and sign off
Strategic Board – Key funders, Councillors, Council/TfL Executive
Operational Decisions
Project Board – NWEC, Westminster Council, TfL
Design decisions
Westminster Council, WSP, NWEC, FM Conway, NRP, Publica

15. Project and Contractual Arrangements
FM Conway / WSP hold key WCC frameworks:
Highways maintenance management and public realm projects 
Street lighting and design
Structures
Typical public realm projects procured via framework arrangement
Larger projects would be tendered on a design and build arrangement
WCC  FM Conway  WSP

16. 2016 - Design Development Concept Feasibility Initial Detailed
Base scenario
Objectives
Feasibility
Traffic modelling
Engineering review
Initial
Consultations
Traffic Order
Surveys
Detailed
Pavement Design
3D Design
Deliverability
Construction
Redesigns
Minimising disruption

17. Costing –Design Lifecycle
End of Stage
Known items
Increase cost
Value engineering
Check against project aims

18. Design after initial design

19. Costing – Concept Design
Scope of works
Location (extents)
Type of change
‘Rules’ for competing demands
Priority
Quality asperations
£££££££££££

20. Costing – Feasibility Design
Scope of works
Location (extents) –side roads, gateways
Drainage (£5m)
Quality asperations
Cornish Granite  Portuguese
Fenwick Corner  Simplified
Contract rates
Street lighting (refurb)
Kerbs (1.8m  915mm)
£££

21. Costing – Initial Design
Statutory Undertaker Utilities
Kerblines adjusted
Recessed covers
Requesting early works to avoid post project work
Ground Penetrating Radar
Change to pavement design
Relocation of lamp columns to avoid basement
Materials - Agreement
Choice (test panel)
Size
Laying patterns

22. Costing – Initial Design: Communication

23. Costing – Initial Design

24. Costing – Initial Design

25. Costing – Initial Design

26. Costing – Detail Design
Paving Design
Kerb margin design (for construction)
Town Square concrete base
Sets/slabs
Construction made easy (consistent construction depth)
-Safety +cost
Town Square - Flush
Other
Covers

27. Additional Funding Additional WCC funding:
Drainage Capital Works Programme
Maintenance funds for road resurfacing

28. Additional Funding Developer Contributions:
Public art - Frink Statue, Commemorative Plaques
Planting
Benches
Sympathetic private forecourt works extending the public realm

29. Additional Funding
Developer Contributions:
Enhanced Northern Gateway

30. Construction

31. Costing – Construction Costs
Management of site crucial to delivery to budget
Productivity vs disruption
Communications
Winter vs summer construction
On site storage
Retail - lost revenue claims?

32. Costing – Construction Costs to others

33. Costing – Construction Costs to others

34. Costing – Construction Costs
Managing cost change
Agreed protocol for change
All changes recorded, PD notified, PM review
No payment until agreed.
Description (reason)
Photo (evidence)

35. Design and Build Contract
Benefits:
Value engineering includes constructability issues
Known unit pricing
Collaborative design changes
Challenges:
Whether savings get passed on to funders is contract dependant
Designing out of ‘Quality’

36. Final Accounts
Contractual arrangement
Project Arrangement

37. Final Accounts
Finance Discussions

38. Final Accounts Finance Discussions Review of Draft Final Accounts
sense check
missing items
items not delivered
check rates against agreed
Recommended changes to FM Conway
Update project costs (how does this impact upon the project)
Negotiated compromise
Both parties keen to finalise
Both parties want to see value

39. Questions