Residential development
Seventy two studios, student accommodation
Seventy two identical rooms and a set of shared spaces that serve all of them. The commercial position depends almost entirely on how tightly the repeated unit is controlled, and on who pays for the parts nobody sleeps in.
The scheme
Seventy two times a small mistake
High density accommodation rewards precision more than almost any other residential type. The studio is designed once and built seventy two times, so an error in the unit cost is an error repeated seventy two times over.
The shared facilities work the other way. They are designed once, built once, and have to be carried by every studio in the building. Where they are not apportioned explicitly, the cost per bed stops meaning anything.
At a glance
The commercial facts
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Our part in it
What we were asked to do
Price the repeated studio in detail, including the prefabricated elements, so that the multiplier was applied to a number worth multiplying.
Separate the communal and ancillary areas into their own cost centre and apportion them openly, rather than letting them disappear into the rate per bed.
Support the procurement and analyse the tender returns, so that the differences between bidders were visible as scope rather than as price.
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