Monkton Combe Music Centre
Delivering a dynamic space and overcoming a significant set of challenges.
Client
Monkton Combe School
Location
Bath
Contract Period
45 weeks
Contract Sum
£3m
This scheme involved significant challenges, including the need to work in the middle of the operational school and amongst a variety of listed structures in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
The project not only had the difficulty of being constructed in a live environment, it was also being developed in a confined area of the school campus with difficult access and space being at a premium.
Access issues were further exacerbated by the school’s location down a narrow single track country lane.
The building itself is built on piled foundations and is constructed using Bath stone and structural glazing. The finishes to the scheme are of the highest quality and of the necessary acoustic integrity, to establish independent practice rooms, a professional quality recording studio and a large rehearsal area.
The works were located around adjacent spaces used for examinations at different times in the academic year, requiring sensitivity when implementing mitigation measures and use careful coordination with the school, to avoid pollution of the education environment by the construction activities
Furthermore, after the initial tenders had been received it was clear that the project as designed
was far in excess of what the school could afford.
In conjunction with the client, design team and specialist subcontractors we carried out a number of value management workshops, which eventually delivered a 17% saving to the original tenders without compromising the design intent and the product that the school were expecting.
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