BPA Awards
Progress
The contact works were carried out either ahead of schedule or on programme. Fortnightly progress meetings ensured close progress monitoring, with the Primerva master programme viewed at the meetings by all parties, including the client, the project administrator and the contractor. Where appropriate, sub contractors were invited to attend, to ensure that their works integrated smoothly with the overall programme.
Practical completion was granted as planned on 24th November 2006.
The refurbishment
- Entry and exit areas
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Lobby area improvements
- New car par office
- Safety and security improvements
- Structural improvements:
- Movement Joints
- Concrete and other repairs
- Drainage
- Surfacing, painting and coating improvements:
- Tarmac
- Entry and exit treatment
- Concrete
- Deck coating and marking
- Coatings applied were:
- Fastdec 2257
- Conideck 2259
- Conideck Deck 2205 lower deck
- Metal work
- New Lighting
- Stair and stairwell improvements
- Signage improvements
- Concrete and brickwork cleaning
- Landscaping
Ongoing Maintenance
A full operations and maintenance manual has been prepare by the contractor incorporating maintenance regimes to include the deck coatings, lighting pay on foot systems and landscaping.
Result
The refurbishment project has made a radical difference to the visual appeal, efficiency safety and security of the car park, turning it from a gloomy, intimidating and dingy building to a bright, clean and inviting place to park. Customers are now enjoying a vastly improved and very positive car parking experience, and the shopping centre management, proud of the car park’s new look and feel, is confidently promoting it in tourist brochures and locally. Although it is too early to formally assess the refurbishment’s impact on revenue and usage, customers’ responses have so far been unanimously favorable. There is no exception that the project will attract more business for the retailers and boost the popularity of the shopping centre.
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