CONSTRUCTION MANAGER OF THE YEAR AWARDS
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Construction Manager of the Year Awards 2020 WINNER 2020
CENTRE STAGE MACE’S FRANK CONNOLLY TOOK THE OVERALL CONSTRUCTION MANAGER OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR 2020 FOR HIS MASTERFUL PROJECT STRATEGY ON LSE’S FLAGSHIP CENTRE BUILDING. CM REPORTS ON ALL THE WINNERS OVER THE NEXT 14 PAGES
Frank Connolly MCIOB Construction Manager of the Year 2020 Gold Winner Higher Education Mace Project: Centre Building, Holborn Scope: Construction of 12-storey block, completed in 124 weeks Client: London School of Economics Contract: GC Works 1 D&B Value: £82m
Frank Connolly from Mace is the Construction Manager of the Year for 2020, and gold winner of the Higher Education category, after expertly delivering a striking new faculty building for the London School of Economics (LSE). On a busy site in Holborn, in the heart of the capital, the new Centre Building features the trademark exposed structure of architect
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and challenged Connolly’s expertise and ingenuity at every turn. His approach to value engineering was key to successful delivery, particularly so given the architectural aspiration for the 12-storey building. Connolly’s deployment of alternative methodologies, products and sequences realised savings while maintaining the spirit of the design. For the brise soleil cladding, he ditched an expensive externally installed system requiring secondary steel support and full scaffold access in favour of a unitised system with integrated brise soleil supported by brackets within the frame. Flatpack brise soleil could therefore be
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