Mount Wise
450 RESIDENTIAL UNITS, OFFICES, RETAIL UNITS, A CAFE, A HOTEL AND DATA STORAGE FACILITY
Mount Wise created 469 homes in Phase I; a striking range of one, two, three and four bedroom houses and apartments, each one elegantly complementing the figure head of the scheme, a grade II listed 200 year old Georgian building (Admiralty House).
Phase II involves building 89 dwellings either side and in front of Admiralty House, which has planning permission to be sympathetically restored to create a 21 bedroom boutique hotel.
The site, previously occupied by the MoD, contains a number of listed buildings and significant archaeological features including an extensive tunnel system and lengths of a city wall.
Involvement
- Planning of all infrastructure, gas, electric, water and street lighting to serve the new housing estate.
- Liaison with the local authority and providing estimates of service loads for each authority.
- Supervision of services installation, co-ordinating with other site services and the construction programme.
- Detailed site survey, design and specification of the building engineering mechanical & electrical services.
- Develop energy strategies to meet planning requirements and achieve and minimum EPC rating of B.
- Thermal modelling of glazed south-facing penthouse apartments with façade engineering proposals to limit overheating.
Benefits delivered
- Direct negotiation with external lighting supplier in order to provide pre-wired lighting columns which could be installed on site by the ground workers rather than the electrical contractor reducing site installation costs. Estimated saving £10k.
- Co-ordination of utility providers and generation of cost proposals.
- Delivery of low energy residences, EPC energy rating of B.
- Work with contracting team to meet project budget constraints.
- Regular site visits, and site quality control to assist in reducing the defects towards PC.
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