Case Study — Infrastructure Jaguar Land Rover Fen End: Infrastructure Works
Lead Cost Manager and Employer’s Agent for the site-wide infrastructure and civils works at Jaguar Land Rover’s Fen End facility in Warwickshire, part of a £65m scheme.
The challenge
Site-wide infrastructure for a major JLR facility
Alongside the new buildings, the Fen End scheme included extensive infrastructure and civils works across a site of around 60 hectares. These included site roads and parking, drainage and attenuation, utilities, a number of vehicular bridges, and Section 278 highway works to form a new junction and site access.
Infrastructure on this scale brings its own commercial challenges: earthworks and drainage on a largely flat site, works on the live public highway, utility diversions, and interfaces between civils, structures and buildings. All of this needed careful cost planning and control to protect JLR’s budget.
Delivered by Ollie Thompson MRICS in a previous role at Mace.
Project facts
At a glance
Lead cost management and Employer’s Agent services for the site-wide infrastructure, structures and highway works, under a JCT Design and Build 2011 contract with client amendments.
Client
Jaguar Land Rover
Location
Fen End, Warwickshire
Value
Part of a £65m scheme
Our role
Lead Cost Manager and Employer’s Agent
Scope
Site roads, parking, drainage, utilities and earthworks across around 60 hectares
Structures
A number of vehicular bridges
Highways
Section 278 works to form a new junction and site access
Contract
JCT Design and Build 2011, with client amendments, via a two-stage tender
Project team
Wates (main contractor), Fitzgerald (Section 278 highway works)
Our approach
Commercial control of complex civils
Cost Planning
Cost planning for the site roads, bridges, earthworks, drainage, utilities and highway works as the design developed.
Two-Stage Tender
Early contractor involvement at first stage, with second-stage pricing of the civils, highways and structures packages tested for value.
Employer’s Agent
Administering the JCT Design and Build contract with client amendments and reviewing the contractor’s proposals for the civils and highway works.
Valuations
Valuations of earthworks, drainage and civils works, so payments reflected the work actually in place.
Interfaces & Risk
Tracking the cost risks at the interfaces between civils, structures, utilities, the public highway and buildings.
Change Control
Change assessed for cost and time as it arose, keeping JLR informed of forecast outturn.
The outcome
Infrastructure for a major JLR facility
Site-wide infrastructure
Roads, parking, drainage, utilities and civils across a site of around 60 hectares.
Vehicular bridges
A number of vehicular bridges connecting the site roads and facilities.
Highway works
A new junction and site access delivered on the live public highway under a Section 278 agreement.
See the buildings side of the scheme in our Vehicle & Special Operations Facility case study, or our Cost & Commercial Management services.
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