Client: Lend Lease Services: Lifecycle, Grounds and L&E Benchmarking and Security Market Testing Sector: Retail Location: Dartford, Kent Project Summary: Our brief was to benchmark the lifts and escalators (L&E) contracts at both sites, along with the internal and external landscaping maintenance contract at the Bluewater site and Market Test the security services. Whilst the…
Client: Eisai Europe Limited Services: Strategic Review Sector: Commercial Location: Hatfield, Hertfordshire Project Summary: The project is part of a major re-organisation of the Eisai UK business operations and the development of a new £110m 23,000m2 European HQ for 500 staff on a 14.5 acre site. There are 4 separate buildings including; headquarters, research,…
Client: London Clinic and Appleyards Services: Strategic Review and Benchmarking of Maintenance Sector: Healthcare Location: London, Greater London Project Summary: In June 2009 we were asked to support the strategic review and benchmarking of the client’s London estate for hard FM services. The project also included an in depth review of the in-house delivery…
Client: Coretex Services: Strategic Review Sector: Commercial Location: London, Greater London Project Summary: The project started with a Strategic Review of the services provided to the FT’s 15,000m2 prestigious HQ building at One Southwark Bridge, London, along with a further building that contained a secure business mail room. On agreement of the contract strategy,…
Client: Appleyard Services: Hard FM Strategic Review, Benchmarking Sector: Healthcare Location: Lewisham, London Project Summary: We provided Strategic Review services for an initial high level review of the Lewisham Acute Hospital NHS estate, including the benchmarking of the hard FM services against market comparators. The review included an identical review at South London Healthcare NHS…
Client: Audley – Cooper’s Hill Retirement Village Services: Asset Management Services Sector: Care Homes Location: Runnymede, Surrey Role Summary: The Retirement Village lifecycle modelling was for the luxury Cooper’s Hill Retirement Village, formerly part of Brunel University. Located within the 66 acres of the Magna Carta Park in the village of Englefield Green, near Runnymede…
Client: SGP Property & Facilities Management – St Georges Hospital Services: Market Testing Sector: Healthcare Location: Tooting, London Role Summary: In 2011, OPEX was commissioned to project manage the hospital market testing in conjunction with SGP Property & Facilities Management (Now trading under the name of ‘Bellrock’) for St Georges Hospital in Tooting – London.…
Client: The Dublin Convention Centre (CCD) Services: Audit Review Sector: Leisure Location: Dublin, Ireland Role Summary: OPEX was appointed by the SPV to undertake a convention centre audit review of the 2014 maintenance services market test that had been previously carried out on the 46,000m2 Dublin Convention Centre by a third party. This work,…
Client: Pinnacle PSG – University of Hertfordshire Services: Mobilisation Services Sector: Education Location: Hatfeild, Hertfordshire Role Summary: Opex was asked to provide University Mobilisation Services for Pinnacle PSG’s recently awarded contract for FM services at the University of Hertfordshire (UoH) Dehavilland Campus. The project involves the operation of 1,600 units of en-suite student accommodation together with…
In March 2012 Opex accepted a commission from John Laing Investments to take the post of interim technical manager at the hospital. The role was to manage the Hard FM contractor and in particular monitor their work and ensure they met contractual and statutory compliance requirements and to also strengthen the management framework, processes, and documentation including significant reshaping of technical auditing and client variations procedures.
