The Project
The University of Sussex published a tender to identify and hire a specialist consultancy that had the required experience and competencies to assess the current Ancillary Unit, and subsequently advise on a “best value” route to up-grading the Unit while making it fit for the University's expansion plans. CCTech were awarded the project which had to be completed over a short timescale.
Project Implementation
CCTech's approach was holistic, deploying a team of experts to:
• Define project scope, detail and timeline with University senior
management
• Interview the majority of Ancillary Unit users to harness their
views and define their research aspirations and the facilities required
• Present an Initial User Feedback report to University management based
on user requirements
• Survey the size, shape and fabric of the Unit, its satellites and their
immediate environment
• Collate the survey data into a Condition Survey Report and present to
University management, for their feedback
• Build on the Condition Survey, the Users Requirements and Management
Feedback to provide a comprehensive Options Report. Options ranged
from doing the minimum to maintain current research programmes and
compliance with A(SP)A 2014, to a complete rebuild on a new site with
space for expansion of several research objectives.