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Category: Bovis Lend Lease Name: Chris Carey Company: Bovis Lend Lease Project: Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton Contract: Bespoke D&B PFI |
Highly motivated and just as highly motivational, Chris Carey played a key role in delivering this project on time and on budget.
Chris tore into this scheme. With commercial close securing the project against inflationary additions, he struck an early works agreement. He then progressed the structure so rapidly that topping out took place only six months after financial close was finally achieved.
Chris selected a team with extensive knowledge of fast-track design and build, taking on only target-driven, programme-aware and non-adversarial team players. He then promoted an inclusive ethos, emphasising co-operation with presentation workshops and liaison meetings. He ran daily 10-minute briefing sessions and weekly package reviews and site co-ordination meetings to keep all parties communicating efficiently and focused on programme targets.
He introduced risk and design management workshops which, coupled with technical seminars focusing on subcontractor co-ordination and interfacing, encouraged innovation and value management. For example, Chris fitted the site's tower cranes with cab-mounted computers and CCTV cameras, while the banksmen were linked to the driver though headphones and voice-activated microphones built into site helmets. The system improved crane safety and has since been taken on across the business.
He also won significant time, quality and efficiency benefits by using a high-density polypropylene (HDPE) combined drainage system rather than a traditional salt-glazed system. It was such an unusual choice that it lacked BBA accreditation, but Chris successfully developed the concept with the manufacturer to meet the contract's 30-year lifecycle obligations. The decision paid off handsomely: Chris was able to carry out complicated substructure works while installing below-ground drainage.
The usual raft of site problems was encountered. The location was very confined, as the new, smaller hospital was built in the grounds of the old structure, which was only subsequently demolished. And construction work had to take place only yards from an operating hospital.
Chris managed it all with aplomb, handing the scheme over on time, within budget and to specification and quality standards. He also delivered a hospital that, being defect-free, could be occupied immediately.
