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NECESSITY PROVES THE MOTHER OF CONSTRUCTION FOR UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
When the contractor that the University of Liverpool had hired to deliver its £52m, 1,259-bed Crown Place student accommodation development was unable to fulfil its contractual obligations, the University was left with a dilemma. So it took maters into its own hands…
UNDER THE TERMS of the construction company’s contract, it had to provide a parent company guarantee and, as it could no longer do so, the obvious answer for the University was to terminate the contract and put the scheme out to tender again. However, the obvious answer raised significant
cost and delivery questions. A tendering process would cause further delays which would make it impossible to deliver the scheme for the 2014 student intake and effectively set back delivery by a year. The change of contractor would also involve a new company guaranteeing work already carried out by the original team, creating complex liability issues. The associated costs of re-tendering were estimated by the University to be as much as £1m. Against this backdrop, the University had been
happy with the contractor. The company had already delivered Vine Court, the first major scheme in the University’s £250m student accommodation strategy: a high-profile £35m project to provide premium accommodation that could also be used for conference delegates. It had also put an experienced project team in place that had worked collaboratively with the University’s estates team from the outset.
Audacious approach The net result of this confidence in the delivery team and eagerness to progress the project on time without the added cost or risk of changing contractor prompted the University to make a bold move. Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University
of Liverpool, Patrick Hacket, explained: “I joined the University in the estates department and my background is in architecture and project management so I knew immediately just how much impact the situation would
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