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Fusions 1 (Brockely Park and Lowther Hill) won the 1992 RIBA project design award. Martin Hughes a trained architect initially got involved as a volunteer builder and brought his invaluable skills and knowledge to ensure the scheme was completed successfully.
The lessons learnt about the importance of strong foundations on a hilly site with trees in clay were then passed on to Nubia Way.
The co-op saved £100 000’s by having Martin as a contracts manager overseeing the extensive groundworks needed on a sloping site bordering 400 oak trees. Chinbrook Meadows benefited from the hard lessons of Nubia Way.
Survey Design Partnership worked with Tim Oshodi as self-build consultant to prepare the new group thoroughly including:
- work backwards given that self-builder hours are a third of a professional builder
- identifying which work would be done by con-tractor – two stage tendering process
- training the self-build group to meet the competencies to fulfill their contractual obligations
- securing additional funding to meet the needs of the self-builders
- training the self-builders in cost control software and setting detailed budgets so that they could identify the impact on their self-build discount.
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