The client’s brief required three generic 32-bed acute wards to be ready for the 2010 winter bed pressures, to supplement the existing beds that were at full capacity. In accordance with current NHS guidance, bed spaces were to be provided with 50% single rooms and 50% 4 bed bays, all ensuite. Key support facilities to each ward were to include a Kitchen, Consultation Room, Ward Clerk Desk (Reception), Nurses’ Station, Seminar Room, Dirty Utility, Clean Utility, Drug Preparation Area & Cleaner’s Room.
Carnegie Pavilion is a semi-freestanding ‘dual-use’ pavilion on five floors, comprising a gross internal area (GIA) of 4,000m², and broken down into three sub-zones: exclusive Leeds Met spaces + exclusive YCCC spaces + ‘dual-use’ spaces (comprising 70% of total area). Leeds Met areas are primarily for teaching kitchen, hospitality and staff accommodation, and YCCC areas for player’s facilities and staff accommodation. ‘dual-use’ lecture rooms are used primarily by Leeds Met, during the academic year, and by YCCC, during the cricket season, as corporate hospitality suites. Similarly, ‘dual-use’ meeting rooms are used primarily by Leeds Met, during the academic year, and by YCCC, during the cricket season, as TV and radio commentary boxes.
Carnegie Pavilion Play Time
Architects: Alsop Sparch
Project: Carnegie Pavilion
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Client: Leeds Metropolitan University
Stakeholder: Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC),
Regional Development Agency: Yorkshire Forward
Project Manager: Gardiner & Theobald
Architect: Michael Crook
Structures; Building Services; Acoustics; Fire; Traffic; Sunlight: Arup
Planning: DTZ
Cost Management: Ryder Levitt Bucknall
Landscape Architect: Whitelaw & Turkington
BREEAM: White Young Green
CDM: Bowman Riley
Party Wall Surveyor: DK Brown
Ecology: Brooks Ecological:
Contractor: BAM
MEP: NG Bailey
Rainscreen Cladding: Locker Group Ltd
Curtain-Walling: Henshaw
Concrete Frame: Bell & Webster
Steel Frame: Elland Steel
Lifts: Thyssen
Auditorium Fit-Out: CPS
TIMELINE:
June 2007: Leeds Metropolitan University/ Yorkshire County Cricket Club issue revised brief
18 April 2008: Detailed Planning Application submitted to Leeds City Council
September 2008: Leeds City Council award Detailed Planning Consent
22 September 2008: BAM appointed Preferred Bidder
23 February 2009: BAM submit Best and Final Offer for client approval
09 March 2009: BAM commence work on site
21 June 2010: BAM achieve Practical Completion
21 July – 25 July 2010: Pakistan v Australia 2nd Test Match at Headingley