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Dudley College - New Construction and Building Skills Training Facility

Wednesday April 15th 2015

Dudley College are developing a new building and construction skills vocational training facility, ‘CABTech’, as part of their overall Campus redevelopment – this will be the 5th phase of their campus remodelling which centralises their training and teaching facilities near to their existing Broadway Campus, known as the ‘Dudley Learning Quarter.’

Dudley ‘CABTech’ will provide a building circa 4,000m2 for traditional building and construction skills training such as plastering, painting, bricklaying, plumbing and mechanical ventilation trades and also new skills related to BIM technologies

The College embarked on CABTech utilising one of the Government’s new models of procurement namely ‘Integrated Project Insurance’(IPI) which key features include a collaborative alliance team of designers and contractors selected at the outset on a quality not price basis; a project bank account and a project where costs of overrun are insurance backed.

The CABTech project is ground breaking, not only in the facility being provided, but also in its procurement route – it will be the first project procured through IPI and is a Government Pilot project and monitored by Construction Excellence. The Project is partly funded by the Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).

MDA were pleased to support the College with Quantity Surveying services for the Successful LEP Bid and Bid Management for procurement of the Alliance Team.

For further information please contact Rob Kennedy (rkennedy@mdaconsulting.co.uk)