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38 PROJECT REPORT: COMMERCIAL & WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENTS


© Daniel Hopkinson


he prominent, elevated riverside site of Sunderland’s first new speculative office building for 40 years, was formerly the location of the Vaux Brewery, sitting between the city centre and the River Wear. This historic industrial waterway was where the carcasses of ships were built before being floated to the Tyne and fitted out in Newcastle.


T © Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios


There was therefore a lot of industrial heritage in the Wear Gorge, around 200 ft below the site, including coal workings. This prime site has had a ”chequered” history of development, says partner at FCBStudios, Simon Doody. “Developers have come, promised the world, then disappeared when they realised that the local rental markets are really tough.” However with the city at the core of the Government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda, investment is happening in earnest. This scheme predates that new focus of Johnson’s administration, the architects having prepared a bid with Igloo Developments in 2009. They’re a firm whose values “in terms of their social and environmental agenda, align with ours,” says Doody, adding that their own green


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assessment system, “was a far-ranging check on the environmental and social decisions we had to make.”


Igloo assembled a team of around six local and national architectural practices and urban designers UrbEd and bid as part of a consortium. Following winning the bid the team went forward as a joint venture called Siglion, (Sunderland City Council, Igloo, and Carillion).


When the contractor went into liquidation in 2018, FCBStudios had to continue work without any design fees for a number of months, however, says Doody, this financial hit “paled into insignificance” compared with the costs the client had to bear to restart the project. They proceeded to appoint another contractor, Tolent, to finish the job, and it ended up being one of the mothballed Carillion schemes that was completed the quickest, and with the least financial pain. There was necessary value engineering however, in order to deal with the costs incurred through the firm’s demise. Doody says: “Sunderland CC managed it remarkably well, through Gleeds,” and the contractor had to “pick up the pieces.”


ADF JUNE 2021


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