Leading inter-disciplinary consultancy McBains Cooper has won a £60m contract with the Justice Support Services Consortium to provide six new police buildings for Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies.
The JSS Consortium comprises Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd, Kier Project Investment Ltd and the Bank of Scotland Corporate.
The six Police Investigation Centres will accommodate custody, detainee processing and administration functions and will be located at King’s Lynn, Aylsham, Wymondham, Great Yarmouth, Bury St. Edmunds and Ipswich.
“The new developments are designed to be the most efficient and secure custody facilities in the country and they continue the tradition of innovative police buildings delivered by McBains Cooper and Reliance,” said Keith Young, Director at McBains Cooper who has been involved in a variety of police buildings around the country including the award-winning Gloucestershire Police Headquarters building. “The new Centres will help place both Norfolk and Suffolk at the forefront of providing a modern and effective police service.”
Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies awarded the preferred bidder status to the JSS Consortium because of the quality of the design of the buildings and their excellent environmentally sustainable qualities.
All of the Centres will feature a heat pump system coupled to a ground source solution utilising energy piles and deep bore holes. Solar panels will supplement the geothermal system in order to preheat the hot water system. This will allow further savings in carbon emissions and energy.
The geothermal heat pump systems, compared with conventional solutions, will also realise energy savings quicker.
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“McBains Cooper’s inter-disciplinary design team enabled us to deliver a solution that will maximise the overall performance and reduce CO2, through passive energy efficient measures and renewable initiatives. This integrated package will greatly assist the buildings to achieve a BREEAM rating of excellent,” said Anthony Coumidis, Director of Engineering and Head of Environmental Strategy at McBains Cooper.
Three of the developments will comprise 30 cells, two will include 24 cells and one of the buildings is an eight-cell development.
The scheme is scheduled to start on site in June 2009.
McBains Cooper is providing architecture, structural and civil engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, CDM and cost management to the scheme. |
