Housing
Housing
Whilst Britcon are predominately active in commercial and industrial sectors, we regularly operate as supply chain partner providing infrastructure requirements for our housing developer partners.
Road and sewers infrastructure represents significant investment by the development company. Britcon's experience and expertise in providing best value solutions to these requirements gives confidence that works will be completed in accordance with the requirements of the adoption authority.
Key features
- Traffic safety schemes and footbridges
- Decent homes works
- Flood alleviation
Recent projects within the residential sector has seen Britcon construct apartments within private hospitals and significant works upgrading publicly owned properties to Decent Homes standards.
More information
For more information about Britcon and our housing experience, please contact us on 01724 280022
Projects in this Sector
- Private Hospital
Bradley Woodlands Private Hospital
Britcon completed the construction of a Private Hospital at Bradley. The scheme provided 13 apartments with 36 bed spaces fully equipped gymnasium, training workshops and kitchens, multi sensory room, external running track, extensive gardens and independent office accommodation for support staff.
Bradley Woodlands provides individual packages of care for people with learning disabilities who have mental health needs and may exhibit challenging behavior.
Registered as an Independent Hospital, this modern purpose built facility provides high quality care, treatment and structured rehabilitation for patients who are either liable or not liable to be detained under certain sections of the Mental Health Act (1983)
The facility offers a consistently high standard of environmental quality in small domestic style accommodation where specialist support is offered based on the assessed needs of the individual.
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Britcon completed the construction of a Private Hospital at Bradley. The scheme provided 13 apartments with 36 bed spaces fully equipped gymnasium, training workshops and kitchens, multi sensory room, external running track, extensive gardens and independent office accommodation for support staff. Read more
- Residential Scheme
Residential Refurbishment Scheme
To carry out refurbishment works on the Severn Trent Water Authority housing stock (some 304 properties) to bring them up to decent homes standard. These works involved the surveying, pricing & supervision of various elements of work i.e. gas/oil heating systems, windows, insulation, bathrooms, kitchens etc on properties through out the Severn Trent Water Authority region between Worksop to Cheltenham inclusive of various structural surveys and works.
Severn Trent Water Authority maintains a port folio of some 304 properties. Britcon are appointed as a framework contractor with Severn Trent Water Authority & the above is the first scheme completed within the framework.
The client had condition survey completed by an external consultant which they have used to identify the Category 1 property failures against the decent homes standards.
Britcon were asked to upgrade as many of these properties as possible before the end of March 2010 these works involved the detailing of requirements to each individual property. Britcon provided monthly budget updates, arranged for onsite surveys & prices, assisted with the selection of sub-contractors, arranged the actual works onsite utilising regular monthly updates on actual cost against the original budget.
Read more about Residential Refurbishment Scheme...
To carry out refurbishment works on the Severn Trent Water Authority housing stock (some 304 properties) to bring them up to decent homes standard. Read more
