BCIS Analysis of the Month: Manchester Youth Centre
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15 November 2019
The BCIS Online featured project for December 2019, submitted by WCP Associates, is the soon-to-be-completed £5.34m youth centre in Manchester. The project will be partly funded by the council, who will also be providing the site for free and partly funded by a private benefactor, who will contribute the majority of the build cost.
The project was procured as a design and build using the JCT Design and Build Contract 2016.
The single and 2-storey youth centre, expected to attract up to 3,000 children and teenagers a year, will include:
On the ground floor (1,746m2):
- a double height sports hall
- a performing arts studio
- a fitness suite
- an open plan reception
- a climbing wall
- a kitchen and
- an arts and crafts space.
On the first floor (782m2):
- offices
- a board room
- a staff kitchen
- a music room
- a recording studio
- a radio booth
- a boxing and martial arts gym
- a beauty room
- an enterprise room
- a film room
- a plant room.
The building cost at £1,672/m2 (4Q2018), compares with the average of £2,504/m2 for 8 youth centre projects on the same basis on the BCIS Online database.
Substructure, at £194/m2 includes:
- concrete strip and isolated pad foundations, and concrete floor slab.
Superstructure, at £796/m2 includes:
- steel frame
- concrete on Holorib decking system upper floors
- flat steel, metal clad roof including rooflights and incorporating auto-opening smoke vents
- combination of Terca Flashed Black brick in stretcher bond and curtain walling comprising 400mm wide module Rodeca opaque and translucent white polycarbonate panels; Kingspan Dri-Design rainscreen cladding and 1.1m x 0.6m PPC metal rainscreen cassette panels horizontally laid with random colours
- Kawneer polyester powder coated aluminium fixed and opening double glazed windows, automatic sliding doors and fire escape doors
- metal stud, block partitions and cubicles and
- timber doors with and without vision panels, riser doors, glazed screens and servery hatch.
Finishes, at £118/m2 include:
- plaster, skim and emulsion, ceramic tile and wall finishes
- screed, carpet tiles, vinyl sheet and sports hall floor finishes and
- suspended ceilings.
Fittings and furnishings, at £95/m2 include:
- reception desk, lockers, benches, sports equipment, boxing ring, punch bags and signage.
Services, at £469/m2 include:
- sanitaryware
- kitchen equipment
- LPHW heating and comfort cooling
- natural and mechanical ventilation including windcatchers
- power and lighting including photovoltaics
- lift
- access control
- AV
- PA
- data
- disabled, fire and intruder alarms
- CCTV and
- building management system.
External and facilitating works at a cost of £761,041 include:
- site clearance, pavement crossing and footpaths, ramps to external fire doors, paving, landscaping, fencing, street furniture and equipment, bin store, cycle hoops, drainage and services.
The £/m2 figures include preliminaries at 12.95%.
BCIS would like to thank WCP Consultancy for providing the data and all those who have submitted projects to be published online.
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