Capella Laboratory
Capella Laboratory
Project Name
Capella Laboratory
Client
University of Cambridge
Location
Cambridge
Project Type
University research facility
Project Value
£79,000,000.00
Form of Contract
NEC Option A
Project Duration
236 weeks
Project Size
18,000 m2
Services
Dispute Resolution, Project Controls
To support the delivery of the project the following project controls services were provided during the fit out stages of the project:
- Employment of lean planning techniques.
- Reporting construction schedule progress to the client team.
- Introduction of daily team ‘planning huddles’ to encourage collaboration between the build team and the services team contractors.
- Development and application of lookahead planning regimes to improve productivity on the project.
Client and wider community benefits:
- Construction of a consolidated laboratory facility to enable multiple scientific research groups to work together.
- Offsite award winning scheme encouraging the supply chain to further develop their offsite techniques.
- Long lasting impact on the Cambridge campus energy usage with the provision of an energy efficient facility.
- Lecture hall for community lectures and engagement.
- Award winning concrete design adding to the architectural diversity of the Cambridge landscape.
- Development of a facility on the scientific park connected to the Cambridge shuttle bus services.
Dispute resolution services. Scheduling support was provided to support the commercial team to resolve time-related disputes.
- A retrospective time-slice analysis was produced to support the resolution of a time-related dispute.
- The original baseline schedule had to be constructed from scratch to use for the time-slice analysis.
- Progress records and progress droplines were analysed to provide the data for input into the detailed time-slice analysis.
- Production of a detailed narrative to support the construction schedule time-slice studies.
- Presentation of the time-slice analysis to the commercial team.
- Settlement of the dispute was achieved with the support the time-slice analysis.