About the Project

Gascoigne East Phase 02 - F1&F2

Oliver’s planning strategy involved the daily collection of a mass of site data and feeding it into an AI-powered analytics platform that automatically identified potential problems. It underpinned a robust programme with streamlined sequencing, and has since been more widely adopted on the contractor’s sites.

He also made use of an augmented reality tool, linked to BIM and the data surveys, to help visualise underground utilities on the site’s arterial roads and to map where services should be installed. The inclusion of exact geolocation data in the O&M manual promises the elimination of any future service strike.

Innovative IT introductions were only part of Oliver’s success. Early on, he built a ‘quality village’, with full-scale mock-ups of interfaces, the facade, windows, roof parapets and brick patterns, as well as firestopping and waterproofing details. Mid-project, he produced a benchmark home, and a show home towards the end. Delivery quality was markedly high, winning the project a slew of independent national awards.

Given that Oliver also had to run a project within a project – an eight-flat Passivhaus block, with a very different supply chain and construction sequences from the main build – this is an impressive achievement.