Wednesday 28 November 2012

Project of the Decade award for scheme that Focus Consultants had a role in

Focus Consultants is celebrating the news that a project the company was involved in has been named Project of the Decade at the ProCon Awards in Leicestershire.

Focus was project manager and contract administrator for the Leicester city centre theatre Curve which picked up the People’s Choice Award.

Designed by award-winning architect Rafael Vinoly, Curve was completed in 2008.

“It is great news to hear that Curve has been voted Project of the Decade, and everyone at Focus is pleased for the whole team involved in the scheme,” said partner at Focus Keith Butler.

The ProCon Awards were attended by around 600 guests from the property, construction and other business sectors. The People’s Choice Award was sponsored by local newspaper The Leicester Mercury and voted for by readers.

Focus Consultants, based at Phoenix Business Park, Nottingham, with offices in Leicester, London, Boston and Aubourn near Lincoln, specialises in creative approaches to securing funding packages and delivering high quality projects across the UK.

Since its creation in 1994, Focus has secured over £800 million of grant assistance, and delivered more than £1 billion of projects and programmes.

It works across a range of sectors including heritage, arts and culture, education and tourism.

Leicester City Council was the client for the Curve project, with Leicester Theatre Trust the end user. Other members of the team were building services engineer Arup, structural engineer AKT and quantity surveyors Turner and Townsend.

For more information about Focus Consultants visit www.focus-consultants.co.uk

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