ISG Secures £6M Cleveland Fire Authority Framework Scheme.

ISG has secured its latest framework project for Cleveland Fire Authority, undertaking the £6M project for a training and administration centre in Hartlepool. The four year capital build framework with the Fire Authority, which will exceed £22M in total, will see sole appointee, ISG, create a Technical Hub and Training Facility along with four local fire stations in Middlesbrough, Headland, Thornaby and Grangetown.

Operating in 28 countries worldwide, ISG is an international construction services company that delivers fit out, construction, engineering services and specialist solutions. The Company works with owners, developers and occupiers within both the public and private sector for a wide range of industries.
ISG will construct the delta shaped training and administration centre designed by Bond Bryan Architects. Once construction is complete in summer 2016, the purpose-built centre will become home to the fire authority staff, leaving behind the existing headquarters, which will be demolished to make way for the state-of-the-art Technical Hub and Training Facility.

Spread over 32,000sq ft, the training and administration centre will give Cleveland Fire Authority a flexible environment across two floors by providing open plan office areas, community facilities and training space. The centre is designed to maximise the amount of daylight to enter the building and features extensive curtain walling to its façade and a striking full height atrium, with an outdoor terraced area at first floor level. The centre will also include other facilities such a café located on the ground floor, break out areas and a gymnasium, with highly-flexible training space featuring moveable partition wall structures to accommodate larger or small groups.

Chief Fire Officer Ian Hayton said: “This development at our Queens Meadow site is vital to ensure that we can continue to provide the high standard of fire and rescue services that Teesside residents and businesses need in the 21st century. We also need to avoid the heavy costs of repairing and maintaining existing buildings that will soon be unfit for purpose.

“This will be a Centre of Excellence with state-of-the-art training facilities for our firefighters and technical services provision to ensure all our equipment is maintained and in top condition.”

Key to driving efficiencies in the build programme is the framework model for project delivery with ISG utilising Cleveland Fire Authority’s own web-based procurement system to liaise with the regional supply chain. By forming a close working relationship with the client’s agent and cost consultant, Bradshaw, Gass & Hope, ISG have been engaged in the design process from an early stage, maximising buildability efficiencies across the framework to deliver best value for the Authority.

Danny Murray, ISG’s Northern Regional Managing Director said: “The redevelopment of Cleveland Fire Authority’s Queens Meadow Business Park site is a major investment in purpose built accommodation to support the Service’s vital work in the region. The partnership approach to delivering the key infrastructure brings all stakeholders together, working collaboratively and sharing knowledge and best practice to add value at every stage of the build process. This brings real benefits, getting these vital projects to site more quickly and cost effectively and leverages ISG’s considerable ‘blue light’ expertise and innovation.”

The Cleveland Fire Authority capital build framework was added to ISG’s ever increasing list of public sector partnering agreements which includes the North West Construction Hub, the EFA Framework, the Ministry of Justice Strategic Alliance Agreement Framework for Construction, Construction Framework South West and the Welsh schools and public sector framework SEWSCAO2.

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