New BBC HQ

The lead contractor for the new BBC HQ in Scotland, Balfour Kilpatrick, has approached us to act as lead co-ordinator for all services on this £18 million contract.

We are delighted to be part of the management team for this critically acclaimed development on the site of the old Pacific Quay in the Plantation district on the south bank of the Clyde, and for the opportunity to work with BK again (see our refs 24 & 25).

We expect co-ordination to start in earnest when the flexible design becomes fixed at the end of June 2005. This project (our ref #65) may therefore begin to stretch our resources in Q3 and possibly into Q4 if design changes are radical.

2006-01 Edit: We were involved in this project for a year; from Arup Scotland’s co-ordinated services designs delivered in July, Balfour Kilpatrick’s scope included principal heating and chilled water pipework installations.

Plumbing (CWS, MCWS, DHWS, rainwater, drainage), ductwork, underfloor heating, dry risers, controls etc were subcontracted. Contractor co-ordination was mainly with sprinklers and the electrical contractor (small power, containment, comms, data). In addition to our lead co-ordination role, we had responsibility in Q1 and Q2 for most of the complicated IT workarounds, (providing much of the equipment required to progress the contract). We devised and implemented all site procedures for document control and QA in conjunction with Bovis’s ‘Hummingbird’ on-line documentation system and Balfour Kilpatrick’s DDMS and Sharepoint documentation systems.

2006-03 Edit: This was a complex project in many ways and for many reasons, and we are delighted to have contributed to the project’s success.

• BBC proposal announced October 2003
• BBC Given Green Light for Move 9 June 2004
• BBC sells off new HQ August 2004
• Work Ends August 2006

• David Chipperfield Architects (script/flash site)
  
• BBC Pacific Quay web site and gallery

BBC Scotland
Queen Margaret Drive
Glasgow
G12 8DG
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