Supporting NHS trusts, schools and colleges with buildings expertise for operational PFI projects

A good deal of the built environment investment across a wide range of public sectors – including health, education, highways, housing and custodial - has been secured by Public Private Partnerships (PPP) as a result of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Private Finance 2 (PF2). As a result, the NHS alone has more than 100 PFI hospitals with a total capital cost in excess of £11billion.

Ensuring those projects are compliant and were delivered to agreed standards is a complex and specialist area. Which is where we can help - we provide expertise and audit services to NHS Trusts and the education sector on the performance of private sector partners, to allow them to meet their contractual obligations and to provide knowledge and supporting evidence where services aren’t delivered to the standards set out in the contract.

We report on the condition of  public buildings, review the compliance status and challenge the performance of lifecycle replacement expenditure, maintenance and management services. Our experienced professionals operate on your premises or sites. We can challenge and receive refund from PFI contractors due to lack of lifecycle spend and to cover remediation for sub-standard construction work.

How our service helps

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Provides patient and building user safety Reduces public liability risk by creating safe built environments for patients, employees and the public.

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Cost-neutral and low-risk Because the work we carry out, including the survey, is paid for by the respective PFI contractors, our service is cost neutral - we even carry out sample surveys first to highlight where the greatest benefit lies. Better buildings to visit and work in improves the experience of end users as the maintenance and operation of the building are enhanced.

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Ensures health & safety compliance Reduces and controls risk associated with health & safety compliance including the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

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Experience you can trust We’re currently successfully delivering to 5 NHS trusts and are interacting with several others to roll out our services.

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Improves statutory compliance and operation Provides a defect identification and remediation strategy to improve the statutory compliance and operation of the building.

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