Easing Prison overcrowding with the Rochester Temporary Custodial facility
The art and science of generating value for our client comes from the resourcefulness of our people and understanding the needs of our customers.
- Rapid build solution helped ease acute national Prison overcrowding using an innovative modular solution.
- 10% increase in capacity and ensured it was operational one month early.
- Cut 44 weeks from the programme and delivered concept design to sign off in eight weeks. Experienced Wates leadership drove collaboration between design supply chain and client teams for significant time savings.
- Reduction in Life-cycle costs delivered greater capacity within the budget and achieved operational savings by reducing manpower requirements, ensuring they can manage more with less resource.
- Savings - a 15% saving on capital cost and 17% on programme.
- Enhanced ongoing relationships with local community through the elimination of 200 lorry movements by recycling existing buildings into material for a new road and car park.
- Delivered savings of £550,000 for the Prison by eliminating 600 lorry movements by re-using existing spoil on site.
- Supported the customer rehabilitation agenda, greatly enhanced skills development and employment opportunities for 100 prisoners by taking them through the CSCS certification programme.
- Relentlessly creating value now and in the future, the Wates team are currently developing innovative ways to employ modular unit technology to deliver a further saving on capital costs by 20%.
Project: 300 person prison for young offenders
Duration: 34 weeks
Client: Ministry of Justice
Categories: modular build, law and order, london & south east
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