Capital & Major Projects Team
The Capital Projects team contains professionally qualified project managers from disciplines including Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, Structural Engineering, Architecture and CAD Design; the team also has a small group of project support staff who work directly with the project managers and provide the main channel for liaison with internal client sponsors. The team are involved with the development and delivery of a wide range of project types, sizes and budget costs including internal refurbishments, building infrastructure upgrades, complex accommodation moves/adaptations/fit- outs and new builds. A common feature of many projects is that they are carried out within buildings parts of which will of necessity remain in use/occupation.
Individual project values can typically range from £150,000 through to £6m, with some new builds in the £10-15m range. The team are responsible for the full project development cycle from the initial client liaison and briefing required to prepare business cases, through the tendering process and construction phase to final completion and occupation. Smaller projects may be developed largely in-house, whilst larger projects will be managed through the appointment of external consultants or consultant teams as appropriate for the size, cost and technical complexity of each individual project. The current project workload of the Capital Projects team includes the following range of projects:
Current Estate Priority Work-Streams
The force’s recently updated Asset Management Framework (2023 – 2028) provides the strategic framework for determining departmental priorities and resource effort. The department is currently engaged in some significant projects, programmes and initiatives which collectively represent both challenges and opportunities. The business critical drivers for PSD are the continuing need to work progressively towards a leaner and more cost efficient estate, maintaining estate operability, whilst at the same time actively supporting and enabling the force to achieve its objectives for organisational change and enhanced operational performance [against the background of a very challenging national financial climate]. A PSD senior presence on business programme and project boards is standard practice, ensuring early engagement and identification of estate requirements. The department’s priority work-streams that are currently the focus of activity and resourcing are as follows:
• Delivery of an ambitious estate rationalisation programme to achieve further financial (revenue) savings and where possible generate capital receipts • Replacement and downsizing of some large ‘legacy’ operational sites at key locations • Custody Estate Review programme to deliver new custody ‘hubs’ (x2/3) and refurbish existing retained custody suites • Implementing our new Sustainability Strategy incorporating carbon reduction targets and delivery plan/programme • Roll-out of estate enabling initiatives/ projects in support of the force’s ‘Working Smart’ (new ways of working post COVID) programme • Development of a prioritised 10 year Strategic Estate Requirements Plan + resourcing implications • Undertake & complete an updated programme of building condition surveys to inform the force’s Forward Maintenance Register in order to identify future planned maintenance priorities and funding implications
Reading - major refurbishment and fit-out of an office building on the outskirts of Reading to replace an existing 1960’s police station
Forensics Department – development of a new state of the art laboratory facility to accommodate a major operational support function in Oxfordshire – development of three ‘pilots’ within existing buildings to trial the accommodation best suited to the strategy for enabling flexible/ hybrid working styles Working Smart rollout
Custody – major programme to upgrade TVP’s custody estate onto 5 core sites two of which are likely to be new-build custody hubs Windsor – replacement of a large 1970s police station involving the relocation of several operational teams to alternative smaller premises
West Berkshire – refurbishment of three adjacent business park buildings to accommodate a collaborative operational team Downsizing and replacement of several local sector and neighbourhood policing bases across the TVP area, typically in partnership with other ‘blue light’ organisations
Kidlington, Oxon – phased
refurbishment of a large 1990s office building on one of TVP’s two HQ sites
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