NEWS
August 2010 - Duchy of Cornwall Appointment
P H Warr plc is delighted to announce a new appointment for the provision of Quantity Surveying and Independent Monitoring Surveying services for the Duchy of Cornwall and the Royal Bank of Scotland respectively.
The development in Poundbury comprises the construction of an underground car park, shell construction of a supermarket for Waitrose, 4 storeys of office premises and 2 smaller buildings comprising affordable housing and further office premises.
This development forms part of the centre piece to the Poundbury development being Queen Mother Square and is estimated to cost in the region of £8m to build.
July 2010 - Housing Design Award WINNERS
P H Warr plc is delighted to be part of the team working on a project that won the Housing Design Award this week. As announced by Housing Minister Grant Shapps MP, the 2010 awards attracted a record-breaking 206 entries, with seven completed schemes going on to win full awards.
The winning schemes showed a freshness of approach not just in architectural styling but in high-density urban infill, procurement and in accommodating older people.
We are the Project Manager, Quantity Surveyor, Employer's Agent and CDM Co-ordinator for the mixed use development designed by Studio Egret West which was one of seven successful projects. The development comprises flats in Clapham, South London, that are built above a new public library. The developer is Cathedral and the contractor is United House.
June 2010 - P H Warr goes Intercontinental
Tripoli office secures major project appointment
P H Warr Libya has recently signed contracts with Al Ghazala Tourism Investments to provide Project Management, Quantity Surveying and Site Supervision services.
The Hotel itself will provide nearly 400 guest rooms over a total of 10 levels including luxury suites, bungalows, leisure club and spa, swimming pool with treatment rooms, gymnasium and ancillary buildings including basements. The total value of the scheme is in excess of $250,000,000.
The securing of this project has assured P H Warr Libya's future for the next 2 years and will form a solid base, from which to grow the Company both in Libya and further afield internationally.
May 2010 - 18th Anniversary Celebration
At a reception held in the company's Southampton office to mark 18 years since the company was established, we were privileged to host Graeme Leach, Chief Economist of the Institute of Directors who spoke on the IOD's view of UK economics prospects.
Graeme's central message was the anxiety over the government's deficit and debt and in particular Graeme explained the importance of reducing the deficit. Since his speech there has been an election! and it seems that one of the central priorities of the new coalition government is deficit reduction. This in turn may well mean interest rates staying at a historically low level for longer which can only be beneficial for the property and construction industry.
April 2010 - Ubari Hotel Development
P H Warr plc are delighted to announce that after many months of meeting and negotiations involving Karl Butters and Isam El-basir from our Tripoli office and a great team effort, we have been appointed to provide Project Management and Site Supervision services on the Ubari Hotel, Wadi Alhayat in the Saharan part of Southern Libya.
The Ubari Hotel will be an iconic 4 storey building comprising 62 bedrooms, 7 suites, feature restaurant, gymnasium, salon / coffee bar facilities, business centre and conference facilities. The hotel is located in the northern sector of Ubari with spectacular views of the mountains to the South and the Sahara desert to the North.
March 2010 - Network Housing Group
P H Warr plc are delighted to have been appointed by Network Housing Group for another project, this time to manage the acquisition of 45 affordable homes which are being constructed by Barratt West London in Ealing West London as part of their Section 106 obligations.
Our role as Employer's Agent will enable us to positively influence the development's design thereby ensuring that the criteria and guidelines of Network and the Homes and Communities Agency are being achieved for the project. Our involvement in this scheme also allows us to be instrumental in transferring the knowledge of Network Housing Group to Barratt, which is essential to creating sustainable communities and ensuring the development's longevity.
February 2010 - Clapham One - Phase Two
The Clapham One development is the £50million Public Private Partnership regeneration of two key sites on Clapham High Street. The regeneration will provide the community with a new leisure centre, library and health centre in addition to private and affordable housing.
P H Warr plc have worked tirelessly with our Client Cathedral Group and the development's stakeholders to create a development model that will realise one of the few major regeneration projects in the country, during the recession.
We are delighted to announce that the development now has full funding, including a kick start loan from the Homes and Communities Agency, has an unconditional development agreement with London Borough of Lambeth and that Contractor's have been appointed and commenced construction.
January 2010 - RNLI
P H Warr plc has been appointed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to undertake the mandatory fire risk assessments for their East Division stations covering East Anglia, Essex, Kent, East and West Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
This represents a significant appointment for P H Warr and is in addition to ongoing quantity surveying and health and safety appointments. We are delighted to have been entrusted with this important commission for the Institution who have been our client for the past 16 years which is
vital to their ongoing work to save lives at sea.
