Introduction to Advent Project Management

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“To be the preferred and most trusted provider of professional services to the construction industry“

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Working Towards the Following Accreditations in 2011:

We are regulated & Accredited by the following bodies:

Advent provided Project Monitor services in accordance with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Guidance Notes.

Our services assisted the Client to ensure that the Design and Build Contractor and its associated project management company delivered a building which met the Client and Funder’s requirements.

The building includes new aircraft storage and apron, new aircraft maintenance and engineering areas together with new offices, a lift, reception area and new kitchen and restaurant facilities.

NEW TERMINAL BUILDING CAERNARFON AIRPORTVALUE: £1.25 MILLION

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DESIGN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCEBIRKENHEAD SCHOOLVALUE: £1.25 million

The project comprised of the construction of a new two storey block between two existing buildings to form a new science and technology block with adjacent corridor together with alteration works within the existing buildings to facilitate the new accesses.

Our Quantity Surveyor assisted the Client and Architect to select an appropriate procurement route and Form of Contract.

Advent’s CDM Co-ordinator also advised the Client and assisted the School to discharge its duties under the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2007 since the works would be carried out during a “live” school term. The CDM Co-ordinator also liaised with the Contractor and the School to agree the best location for the contractor’s compound and construction access and deliveries arrangements to ensure pupil, parents and staff safety at all times.





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Advent Project Management Ltd are providing Quantity Surveyor services on this project which entails a large Extension for additional classrooms and the refurbishment of the existing school including classrooms and commercial kitchen. Advent worked closely with other members of the design team throughout the construction and refurbishment works ensuring that the project kept within budget at all times.

PRIMARY SCHOOL EXTENSION & REFURBISHMENTPENTREUCHAF PRIMARY SCHOOLVALUE: £785k

Airports & AirfieldsEducationEnergyFit-OutsHealth



Residential

Advent managed the undertaking of various surveys in order to meet with the planning authority’s policies such as archaeological and landscape visual impact considerations. Extensive Bird surveys were also undertaken at the site to rule out any added risks of bird strikes from the turbine blades. Advent have also been appointed to project manage the installation of both the wind turbines as well as the auxiliary works associated with the

Advent Project Management successfully assisted the Client to obtain planning permission for two number 250kW wind turbines measuring 45 meters to tip of blade and which could provide enough electricity for 316 homes annually.

WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT CAERNARFON AIRPORTVALUE: UNDISCLOSED

Advent Project Management has a wealth of experience within the Renewable Energy Sector and can assist our Clients with their Hydroelectricity project. Advent can assist with projects ranging from micro hydro (kW) up to much larger installations (MW). Hydro power has been harnessed for many hundreds of years in the form of water wheels up to the modern day turbines which generate large volumes of electricity all year round 24 hours a day in most cases. Advent can assist our Clients with their hydro project from a pre-planning paper for screening opinion through to the installation and commission on the system.

HYDROELECTRICITY DEVELOPMENTs

Airports & AirfieldsEducationEnergyFit-OutsHealth



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Advent Project Management assisted the Client to select an appropriate designer to develop fully functional new commercial kitchen and restaurant facilities, complete with Wi-Fi connections for pilots, passengers and visitors to have access to the internet while using the facility. Advent Project Management provided a complete turnkey solution and assisted the Client to select a modern and vibrant colour scheme. We also arranged for visualisations to be displayed in advance of the work for visitors and staff to be able to contribute to the process [see bottom left].


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NEW KITCHEN & RESTAURANT FACILITIESCAERNARFON AIRPORTVALUE: £100K

NEW OFFICE & BOARDROOM FIT OUT WITH IT & COMMSCAERNARFON AIRPORTVALUE: £80K


EnergyFit-Outs

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Refurbishment Residential

Advent Project Management Ltd assisted the Client to procure furniture of a very high standard to fit-out individual offices, the Managing Director’s office and Boardroom and reception areas, in a brand new airport terminal facility.Advent provided a complete turnkey solution by providing furniture layout plans, procuring furniture and supervising the installations on site.Advent Project Management Ltd’s I.T. and Communications Project Manager also provided design guidance, some installation work and on-site supervision of a brand computer server and integrated IT and Communications installation linking the new offices with the remaining buildings at the Airport.

OFFICE FIT-OUTS AT PARC MENAI & ST ASAPH BUSINESS PARKSNORTH WALES TRUNK ROAD AGENCYVALUE: UNDISCLOSED


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Advent provided a turnkey solution allowing the client to occupy new premises, involving adapting internal walls, creating server/printing rooms, air-conditioning, showers, kitchen adaptations and procured furniture, window blinds and architectural plants to meet the client’s requirements.

COMMUNITY CARE ACCOMMODATION - BRYN Y NEUADD HOSPITALBETSI CADWALADR UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARDVALUE: £1.5 million


EnergyFit-OutsHealthIndustrial



Advent Project Management Ltd. are assisting the Client by providing both Quantity Surveying and CDM Coordinator services for the construction of new residential accommodation at the Hospital comprising of detached 1 bed, 3 bed and 4 bed timber frame bungalows. The buildings will be used as residential units for patients with mental health problems; external works including decking, gardens, paths and car parking are also included under the contract. Due to the existing Hospital being in use throughout the contract Advent have worked alongside both the Client and the Contractor to ensure every measure has been taken to safeguard the safety of all people who may be at risk which include the Staff, Patients and the General Public visiting the existing Hospital.

COUNSELLING SUITE, HOPE HOUSE HOPE HOUSE CHILDRENS HOSPICESVALUE: £1.5 million

Hope House Children’s Hospices is a registered charity offering care and support to life limited children, young people and their families. The services provided include respite and terminal care at the hospice and/or within the family home, and support such as counselling, advocacy and the promotion of children, young people’s and carer’s rights.

The project is to provide a purpose built counselling suite and training room together with associated offices and welfare facilities including hard and soft landscaping on a green field site adjacent to the existing hospice.





ST. DUNSTANS, LLANDUDNO ST DUNSTAN’SVALUE: £5.5 million

The development of the Llandudno Centre is part of St Dunstan’s expansion pan to help more ex-Service personnel in need of specialist support in ways which will provide the most benefit. Development and refurbishment work are anticipated to commence at March 2010 and will then expect to see a construction period of 15 months. The project comprises the refurbishment of the grade II listed building making it DDA compliant and extensions to the kitchen, service corridor, and new linked building accommodating bedrooms, training rooms and storage spaces. Advent will assist the Client to discharge its duties under the Construction Design & Management Regulations 2007.





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YSBYTY ALLTWEN HOSPITALBETSI CADWALADR UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARDVALUE: £15 million





Photo © Daily mail

Advent’s CDM Co-ordinator provided the Trust with advice in all aspects of construction health and safety risk management from the design stage through to completion of construction on site. This includes advising on competency of contractors, adequacy of management arrangements, proper Co-ordination of Health & Safety and monitoring and reporting of contractor’s compliance with the Construction Design and Management Regulations on site. Advent Project Management’s CDM Co-ordinator advised on the requirements and collation of pre-tender health and safety information and the form and content of the Health & safety File at Completion.

HIGH BAY WAREHOUSEDACTA LTD.VALUE: £900K





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Advent Project Management assisted the Client to deliver the construction of a brand new high-bay warehouse within a strict project delivery timescale to ensure that the Client’s first import order was able to be securely accepted and stored. Our services included structuring the building contract, assisting to liaise with Wrexham Borough Council, the Environment Agency and adjoining owners to obtain development permissions on behalf of the client and agreeing the final account with the contractor.

BLACK SHEDS, OUTDOOR PERSUITS CENTREGWYNEDD COUNCILVALUE: £1.2 million





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The Black Shed project involved creating a replacement for the original 1900's wharf coal-sheds at Aberdyfi, South Gwynedd. The new community-focused spaces were redesigned and rebuilt between 2004 and 2005, utilising a £1.2 million budget. Challenges included - adhering to the strict budgetary allowance; working within the confines of a limited space further complicated by the busy nature of a quayside in a popular holiday town; meeting with the approval of the National Parks; creating a highly energy efficient space with minimal environmental impact.The building is now an asset to the area and incorporates permanent boat sheds, maintenance facilities and teaching facilities for The Outward Bound Trust along with business units adapted for use by community-focused projects and individual enterprises.

INDOOR KARTING CENTREERYRI LEISURE CYFVALUE: £750K



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Following the Client being let down by his original team of consultants, Advent Project Management Ltd were urgently brought in by the Client’s advisors to ensure that the Client’s funding would not be lost. This included grant aid funding from Gwynedd Council and the Welsh Assembly Government in addition to private and commercial funding and investment. Advent urgently assembled its own team of consultants and designers and completely revised the original scheme layout in order to obtain planning permission and carried out a value engineering exercise to bring the project within the client’s budget. Within 4 months, an acceptable tender was received which met with the approval of the client and funders, thereby allowing the project to proceed. The construction project was successfully delivered within time and budget and the Redline indoor karting centre was opened by Wales’ First Minister on 30th November 2007 [see above photo].

NEW CONFERENCE & EVENTS SUITE ST GEORGE’S HOTELVALUE: £600K



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Advent Project Management Ltd. are providing project management and CDM Co-ordinator services on this project.

The work entails the stripping out, alterations and refurbishment of approximately 450m2 of the existing

basement level to the hotel in order to create a new conference and events suite, with dining and bar facilities. Also included within the scheme is an external paved and landscaped terrace area with tables and seating for outdoor dining, all carefully blended in with the existing Victorian architecture to comply with conservation requirements. Advent’s Project manager and CDM Co-ordinator are assisting the Client to develop the scheme from an initial outline concept to a detailed design which will be acceptable to the hotels working arrangements and at the same time be in-keeping with the conservation needs of the promenade location, whilst keeping within the Client’s budget constraints.

TOWN HALL, LLANGEFNIMENTER MONVALUE: £2.0 million





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Advent have assembled a professional and experienced team of consultants and designers comprising of architect, Mechanical & Electrical Engineers, BREAM assessor and in addition are carrying out Project Management, Quantity Surveying and CDM Co-ordinator services In-house. The works involve the complete internal strip out of the existing building and construction of new internal floors and layout to form offices, public spaces and storage, at the Town Hall in Llangefni. The building will meet BREEAM Good standard and will feature sustainability measures and will include an Variable Refrigeration Flow installation to assist with the heating and cooling of the building.

BAND ROOM, DEINIOLENDEINIOLEN SILVER BANDVALUE: £400K

Ian Williams, our Managing Director project managed and raised funding to assist the Client to refurbish and renovate a dilapidated old slate mill (circa 1800) transforming the property into a modern and vibrant community focal point in the community of Deiniolen. The works comprised extensions and internal refurbishment, brand new heating installations with temperature controls and the installations of small kitchen facilities on both floors together with specialist acoustic treatments to the band rehearsal area. Ian assisted the Band to raise funding for the project from the Arts Council of Wales (Lottery), CIST Gwynedd (Gwynedd Council) and the Foundation for Sport & the Arts. The completed project featured on the National Lottery mid-week televised draw in May 1998.





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PENRALLT BAPTIST CHURCHPENRALLT BAPTIST CHURCHVALUE: UNDISCLOSED





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Ian Williams, our Managing Director project managed and raised funding to assist the Client to refurbish and renovate a dilapidated old slate mill (circa 1800) transforming the property into a modern and vibrant community focal point in the community of Deiniolen. The works comprised extensions and internal refurbishment, brand new heating installations with temperature controls and the installations of small kitchen facilities on both floors together with specialist acoustic treatments to the band rehearsal area. Ian assisted the Band to raise funding for the project from the Arts Council of Wales (Lottery), CIST Gwynedd (Gwynedd Council) and the Foundation for Sport & the Arts. The completed project featured on the National Lottery mid-week televised draw in May 1998.

17 APARTMENTS, RHOSNEIGRMR NEIL OLDHAMVALUE: £1.5million




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Advent Project Management Ltd assisted the Client to select the most appropriate procurement route for this prestigious development located in the centre of one of Anglesey’s busiest tourist resorts. The 17 units built on three floors include affordable housing units. Advent Project Management Ltd have provided project management supervision of the whole process from design stage through the tendering process to on-site construction works. Advent also provided cost management. advice and CDM Co-ordinator services.

ANGLESEY SOCIAL HOUSING REFURBISHMENT SCHEMEANGLESEY COUNTY COUNCIL/G PURCHASE CONSTRUCTION LTDVALUE: £20 million





Co-ordinating and reviewing health and safety aspects of design work.

Advising on health and safety information required, or surveys and reports required, prior to commencement of works on site.

Preparing relevant health and safety information packs.

Notifying HSE (once commenced) Preparing overall construction stage health

and safety plans. Preparing method statements and risk

assessments as required. Obtaining and reviewing method statements

and risk assessments from sub-contractors. Carrying out periodic site inspections and

monitor compliance with health and safety Plan.

Co-ordination of Health and Safety File

Advent’s CDM Co-ordinator provided Anglesey County Council and G Purchase Construction Ltd. with advice in all aspects of construction health and safety risk management including:

NEW BUILD LUXURY FARM HOUSE, LLEYN PENINSULALLEYN LEISURE & RURAL SERVICESVALUE: £1.5 million





This brand new property is a private dwelling for a local entrepreneur and his wife. The property is set in the idyllic location surrounded by landscaped grounds with two man-made fishing lakes. Advent assisted the client and his architect to obtain planning and building regulation permissions. The house was completed in the Summer of 2009 and Advent have provided an inception to completion service, having obtained competitive tenders from reputable local contractors, which was the client’s desire. The property has the latest sustainable means of heating the property by the use of a ground source heat pump. The property has also been clad with local stone from the Trefor quarries.

NEW BUILD LUXURY FARM HOUSE, LLEYN PENINSULALLEYN LEISURE & RURAL SERVICESVALUE: £1.5 million





Advent Project Management are assisting the client to obtain planning permission for approximately 80-90 residential units, located at the strategically important Eastern Gateway to Long Eaton Town. The process involves persuading the local authority to accept a residential development on what is a long-standing industrial part of the Town. The design will ensure the houses and apartments will be built to the latest sustainability standards and approximately 25% to 30% of the dwellings will be affordable homes.

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