Summer Sports - Commonwealth Games
Give us a background on your appointment four years ago
The opportunity was advertised via Glasgow’s City Procurement Portal in June 2010. Our Chairman had been involved in preparing the bowling greens for the 1980 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, but tendering for local amenity business has changed significantly in the interim. The Pre- Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) itself ran to over one hundred questions, some of which required responses of up to 2,000 words, so we knew from the outset that the whole project would be scrutinised very thoroughly.
Twenty two construction companies applied initially, so we were extremely pleased to be short listed to three. Thereafter, we had to submit our price, together with a further quality submission. So, by the time we actually won the job, we had been living and breathing Kelvingrove for quite a time.
Tell us about the initial brief and what needed to be achieved
Kelvingrove Lawn Bowling Greens are, in effect, the manicured gardens of the iconic Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum which receives over a million tourist visitors a year and is the most popular museum in the UK outside London. Situated in the city’s west end, on the edge of the campus of the University of Glasgow, it is a very well-known location on a main thoroughfare into Glasgow city centre.
Five of the six existing municipal bowling greens were to be redeveloped to meet the requirements of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, with the sixth green remaining open to the public as long as possible. Reconstruction of the greens playing surfaces included new drainage, green ditches and installation of a new irrigation system, as well as the upgrading of the footpath network within the site to ensure compliance
with the Disability Discrimination Act.
In legacy mode, the redeveloped bowling greens need to provide excellent facilities for hosting future international and national bowling events, as well as meeting the requirements of the existing bowling clubs based on the site and for public leisure use.
The contract for the supply and laying of the turf had already been awarded and was already growing off site in 2010 to ensure the turf would be available on completion of the greens construction.
Have the plans been entirely successful and completed on schedule? What, if any, difficulties have you had to overcome?
Mostly, everything has worked very well, although there are always occasions when you reach unchartered territory. I like to think that the scrutiny and checking that goes on prior to the job being awarded is to make sure that the client knows they are in capable hands if the project takes a detour.
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The Pre-Q
Qualification Questionnaire itself ran to over
one hundred questions, some of which required responses of up to 2,000 words, so we knew from the outset that the whole project would be scrutinised very thoroughly
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