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THE LOGICAL DECISION
High maintenance facilities that cut away at the bottom line are often the result of fudged building. This is a disjointed process where the architect produces a design, then a builder gets involved and prices it, and that price is too high. So everyone goes back to the drawing board and cheaper alternatives to the original specification are found – often at the expense of durability, as
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the whole room should be tiled. The initial cost is more, but the room will look better for longer, customers will be happier – and staff won’t spend time fi elding complaints or repainting walls.
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products tend to now need replacing within three years instead of 10. Good examples of WLC being used
from day one, especially in the public sector, are those procured under Public Private Partnerships (PPP), where a company signs up to construct, maintain and operate a facility for, say, 25 years. The Elmbridge Xcel Leisure
Complex is a case in point. DC Leisure Management and Willmott Dixon combined their expertise on this PPP contract to develop a facility with a 25-year life cycle in mind.
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he architect has specifi ed tiles up to shoulder height in the changing rooms. The operator argues that
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