Name: Ryan Broadley
Employer: Miller Construction
Project: One Waterloo Street, Glasgow
Contract: JCT
Ryan Broadley won this two-stage contract by successfully negotiating a lane closure of a busy road for the duration of the project. Combined with his plan for a new pedestrian crossing to manage deliveries without affecting the public, it convinced the client that he was the right man for the job.
Then in the preplanning stage he made two key decisions.
First, he made full use of his engineering background and experience of tight inner-city sites by developing a strategy to undertake the piling within the site footprint. It involved lifting a piling rig into the entirely excavated basement as well as a mini crane to remove the foundation materials. The extra preplanning expense was handsomely repaid by a five-week programme gain as well as overall cost reduction.
Second, he came up with a steelwork offloading innovation that overcame the delivery constraints by implementing sliding platforms. The steel arrived at site in six-tonne loads on lifting rafts, and was craned up to levels three or six, where Ryan had strengthened the changeover floor slabs. It allowed the project’s 24 major pieces of steelwork to be offloaded in three lifts instead of 24, and gave the tower crane driver full sight of his lifts and shorter travelling distances.
These early engineering innovations made huge gains for the project, and Ryan continued in the same vein throughout the project. For example, realising the value of floorspace to the client, he rationalised the plant rooms from one per floor to a single centralised plant room on the roof.
Value: £13.1m