Capital was appointed as the multi-disciplinary consultant to provide full professional service from inception to completion.  Our services included, Employers Agent, Fire Engineering, Cost Consultancy, Project Management, Structural Engineering, Architectural services, Contract Administration, Principal Designer & Clerks of Works.

The Spectrum Building is a 9 storey building consisting of two adjoining blocks which are both accessed from the rear of the building via separate entrances at ground floor level. The first building houses apartments No’s 1 -28 and Second Building (LHS) as viewed from rear car park houses apartment No’s 29 – 56. The ground floor is composed of the commercial occupancies and access to the residential occupancies.

Our role included production of the Employer’s Requirements and contract documents, appointment of sub-consultants, management and coordination of the design team, validation of the contractors design proposal (in agreement with our chartered structural and fire engineers), agreement of the contract sum (via our independent Quantity Surveyors), administration of the BSF application on behalf of our client, obtaining planning and building regulation approvals, management of health and safety / CDM requirement (principal designer role), contract administration of the works, agreement of quality control procedures, site sign off and handover procedures, included the issue of an EWS1 form on completion of the remediation works.

The project was given BSF funding eligibility and is due to start on site in March 2023 and be complete within a year.