Client: Jesus College

           University of Oxford

Ship Street Centre

Redevelopment of the Oxford Story site into Conference Facilities and student accomodation

The Clarkson Alliance were appointed early in 2008 to manage the design, procurement and construction of a new £6m residential conference facility and student accommodation for Jesus college. In 2007 Jesus college acquired the lease of the former Oxford Storey site, which is close by to the colleges central Oxford location.

The college propose to convert and extend the existing listed 3 storey Victorian banqueting hall into a high quality residential conference facility aimed at the corporate conference market. The accommodation will provide 31 bedrooms on the first second and third floors with a 100 seater lecture theatre and 2 conference rooms on the ground floor.

The Clarkson Alliance set about their task of managing the project by first of all assisting the College’s Governing Body to first of all focus on the purpose of the project and then on the business benefits that the facility should deliver.

Having established this The Clarkson Alliance could then direct the design team towards providing a solution which would deliver the business benefits that the facility is set up to achieve.

The business benefits can only be achieved if the facility is delivered within a certain budget and opens by Spring 2010.

The Clarkson Alliance conducted a series of risk management workshops to consider the risks involved in delivering the facility within the se constraints. Out of this processes the project team proposed certain strategies of how these risks could be either eliminated or mitigated.

Out of this processes a series of roles and responsibilities were devised and assigned to the project team members on the basis of who was best qualified and most able to mitigate each risk.

This process established a co-ordinated set of roles and responsibilities amongst the consultant team and formed the basis of their appointment with the college. The Clarkson Alliance drew up this set of co-ordinated appointments between each consultant and the college and acts as agent administering each of their professional Services Contract.