SES

In line with our strategy of maximising the benefits of BIM and prefabrication, 2016 was also a busy year for our offsite manufacturing facility, Prism. Delivering modules, plant rooms and energy centres to our projects and ensuring quality, safety and minimising on-site hours.

Our significant wins include a portfolio of projects on the Canary Wharf and King’s Cross developments in London. We continue to see our average project size increase and have a strong pipeline in all sectors.

During 2017 we will complete the landmark Queensferry Crossing over the Firth of Forth as well as our high-end residential schemes at King’s Cross and Barts Square.

SES won a number of national and regional awards during 2016 including:

• Offsite Awards 2016
  Best Use of MEP Prefabrication – 5 & 6 Wellington Place
• RISE Awards 2016
  Sustainable – Non Domestic – The University of Leeds, Laidlaw Library
• PFM Awards 2016
  Partners in Expert Services – Single Site – Queensferry Crossing with PTSG

SES works for main contractors, developers and end users and differentiates through strong in-house design, engineering, accredited BIM expertise and, of course, our professional and skilled workforce.

NORTH EAST PRIORITY SCHOOLS
(COMPLETED 2016)

THE PRIORITY SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAMME HAS BEEN A NEW BUILD PROJECT WHICH HAS REPLACED A NUMBER OF OUTDATED BUILDINGS, TRANSFORMING AND ENHANCING SOME KEY EDUCATION FACILITIES ACROSS THE NORTH EAST. THANKS TO OUR EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE OF THE EDUCATION SECTOR, COMBINED WITH THAT OF OUR SUB-CONTRACTORS, SUCH AS SES, WE HAVE DELIVERED HIGH QUALITY AND BEST VALUE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS THAT SUPPORT IMPROVED EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT. THE PROJECT HAS DEMONSTRATED HOW COLLABORATIVE WORKING DELIVERS THE BEST RESULTS.

In the spring of 2015, SES was awarded an £18m contract by main contractor, Galliford Try, to provide mechanical and electrical (M&E) building services on schools in Alnwick, Bedlington, Longbenton, Seaham, Hetton-le-Hole and Guisborough, as part of a £150m contract awarded by the Education Funding Agency (EFA), one of the Government’s privately financed batches in the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP). SES’ early involvement in the scheme, coupled with its ‘build-before-we-build’ approach, was pivotal in the team’s ability to successfully achieve simultaneous delivery of the six major projects totalling 48,092 sqm. Through hosting workshops with the client, project partners and its supply chain, SES was able to identify a host of commonalities proving vital to the logistics of the build programme.

Each two-storey facility, which has been traditionally built using a steel framework and brick, is shaped like an ‘E’ with a main dining hall and sports hall facilities at the spine of the building, and classroom and technology blocks extending at right angles off these common facilities. The one exception is Laurence Jackson School, where the existing sports facilities have been fully refurbished to bring them up-to-date and in keeping with the new building.

EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO THERE WERE SIX EMPTY SITES AND NOW THE REGION BOASTS SIX NEW SECONDARY SCHOOLS, WHICH HAVE BENEFITTED NOT ONLY FROM A TRULY COLLABORATIVE APPROACH ADOPTED BY ALL PROJECT PARTNERS BUT ALSO FROM SES’ USE OF INNOVATION AND COMMITMENT TO VALUE ENGINEERING, TO ENSURE THAT ALL THE BUILDINGS WOULD MEET WITH THE EFA’S REQUIREMENTS SET OUT IN THE PRIORITY SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAMME.

LONDON GASHOLDERS
FOR CARILLION PLC AND KING’S CROSS CENTRAL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

EVERYONE INVOLVED WITH THIS PROJECT IS DETERMINED TO DELIVER AN EXCEPTIONAL BUILDING, WHICH IS A COMPLETE ONE-OFF: IT WILL BE SOMETHING TO BE HUGELY PROUD OF WHEN IT IS COMPLETE. PEOPLE, MANAGEMENT, TIME, THESE ARE ALL BIG FACTORS, BUT USING OFFSITE TECHNOLOGY AND PREFABRICATION IS WHAT MAKES SCHEMES LIKE THIS POSSIBLE. THE WHOLE PROCESS IS BUILT ON MUTUAL TRUST. HAVING SES AND CARILLION INVOLVED MEANT WE COULD COME TO AN AGREEMENT QUICKLY AND THEY COULD BEGIN TO INFORM THE EMERGING DESIGN WORK TO ENSURE THE SCHEME WAS DELIVERABLE.

Set in King’s Cross – one of the largest areas of central London to be developed in the past 150 years – the circular Gasholders project is a pioneering example of cutting-edge offsite manufacturing and prefabrication. Housing 145 luxury apartments, the project is the sixth Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) design and build project for SES Engineering Services on the King’s Cross site. Working alongside main contractor Carillion, and developer King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership, SES is delivering full M&E works on three ground-breaking circular residential buildings which will sit within the original Grade II-listed, cast-iron gasholder guide frames. After the success of offsite manufacturing on the nearby Plimsoll Building (P1) where offsite manufacturing techniques were used to design and install 255 service cupboard modules, containing all essential mechanical and electrical plant and equipment, the same technologies are being applied to install more than 300 (due to services being split) cupboard modules at the new Gasholders build.

The project presents the additional challenge of ensuring M&E solutions are designed for a circular building. By creating the modules offsite, SES avoided multiple trades on site working in a congested area, along with the associated logistical and health and safety issues. In addition, SES is delivering all the main service risers covering six riser shafts each extending up the three gasholders incorporating 1.7km of finished and tested pipework, ductwork and electrical containment. The project has been set with high offsite manufacturing targets; as well as the circular modules SES has delivered the 3D BIM modelling for prefabricated M&E service risers, full take-offs and cut lists for the basement plant areas and corridors.