Brief Description

Undertaken whilst contracted to John Mowlem and Company, this project comprised a national framework roll-out programme to build car showrooms for Lexus throughout the U.K. in the year 2000.

This comprised firstly assisting John Mowlem and Company in competitively and successfully bidding a “generic” project. This generic concept however was 50% over budget and so, as part of the team, this was value engineered through a number of methods including the identification of key partner design sub-contractors for the steel, cladding, glazing and services elements, product change, design rationalisation and simplification and bulk purchasing to achieve the budget.

This generic concept was then translated to site-specific solutions including refurbishment of existing facilities to incorporate elements of the generic concept to retain, for the customer, the car purchase “journey” or “experience”. Two sites included the construction of Toyota car showrooms and servicing facilities adjacent to the Lexus showroom.

In total, Cassian was involved in nine projects, situated in Bristol, Glasgow, Guildford, Aberdeen, Bolton, Manchester, Leeds, Woodford and Southend. The involvement included assisting the local Mowlem offices in securing the projects, ensuring design changes and lessons learnt from the early projects were incorporated on the later projects, co-ordinating the key partner sub-contractors and monitoring progress on each project to ensure the Lexus overall roll-out programme was maintained.

Services Provided

National Project Manager