Construction Tech & Enviromental Services

Question 1

How did you calculate the costs associated with option 2 in your competency?

Question 2

Did you advise the Client on any further considerations (other than cost and programme)?

Question 3

What were the programme risks ?

Question 4

Could you name the different types of foundations?

Answer 4

• Strip foundations
• Pad foundations
• Stepped foundations
• Piled foundations
• Raft foundation

Question 5

What advise would you give to a client that wanted to know the disadvantages of steel frame construction?

Answer 5

• Needs to be fire protected (additional costs)
• Parts may need replacing
• Price of steel is variable, high since COVID.
• Specialist contractors needed, hard to find.

Question 6

Could you give me an example of different types of fire protection you are aware of?

Answer 6

• Sprinkler systems
• 60min fire rated plasterboard
• Fire mastic
• ESW1 standard cladding
• Fire doors

Question 7

Within your Cost Estimate for Tanglewood, what did you assume for the subs, frame and upper floor elements?

Answer 7

• On Tangelwood, due to the lack of design, and the fact the building was already half built. I assumed what was already built was adequate. Such as, brick and block for the external envelope, beam and block upper floor (half already built. I also assumed a timber pitched roof system for the roof, with clay tiles.

Question 8

How did you advise your client Option 2 on Duke Street was uneconomical?

Answer 8

• I first reviewed the condition of a number of the windows on Duke Street.
• I took the condition and applied it across the whole building, using the drawings i measured and priced the cost and programme implications.
• I used in-house cost data from similar office projects in Reading, benchmarked these rates using BCIS and SPONS.
• I then advised the client on the cost & programme implications.