Scholes

Key Features

• Leading the design team and providing project management on site to deliver the homes on time, within budget and to an excellent quality.
• Establishing a clear Client Brief. This was particularly important as this development was one of the first council developments in thirty years.
• Designing houses compliant with the requirements for all funding stakeholders, for example, HCA, Code for Sustainable Homes, Lifetime Homes and Building for Life.
• Identifying risks to the project, innovating and mitigating those risks. For example: Japanese knot weed; poor ground due to mining; obstructions in the ground and surface water solution.
• Establishing pragmatic, sustainable and solutions focused house types which are easy for tenants to live in.
• Delivering less carbon emissions and waste.
• Supporting the local authority to realise the benefits of quality houses by adding value.
• Provides low maintenance and low life cycle costs.