Focus Consultants wins commission for Lincolnshire housing scheme

Focus Consultants has been appointed by the Waterloo Housing Group on a scheme to redevelop one of the few derelict sites left in Boston in Lincolnshire into affordable housing for local people. 

The company has been secured as Employer’s Agent, CDM Co-ordinator, and Party Wall Surveyor for the development in Blue Street, on the site of the former Pilgrim Foods depot. The firm’s energy team will also provide energy carbon sustainability services for the project, which will create new homes for 41 families. 

Work has just got underway on the £5 million scheme, which is being built in two phases by D Brown Building Contractors Ltd. The development has also been supported by Boston Borough Council and the Homes and Communities Agency. Completion of the scheme is expected in Autumn 2015. 

Trevor Newton, Partner at Focus Consultants, which has an office at Endeavour Park, Boston, and another at Aubourn in Lincolnshire, said: “The team at Focus is very pleased to be part of this scheme, which is returning an area of derelict land in Boston back into use, and will lead to additional quality affordable homes being available in the town.” 

Focus, which also has offices in London, Nottingham and Leicester, offers a range of building services to the construction industry, including building surveying, quantity surveying, project management, CDM Co-ordinator services and sustainable development support. 

For more information visit www.focus-consultants.co.uk

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Focus Consultants appointed on energy carbon sustainability contracts

Building and property services firm Focus Consultants has extended its geographical reach with two new energy carbon sustainability appointments in the north of Lincolnshire.

The Boston office of Focus has secured contracts to assess and check the environmental credentials of two Scunthorpe residential developments, currently under construction.

Scunthorpe-based TG Sowerby Developments Ltd has appointed Focus as the Code for Sustainable Homes assessor on a scheme of 20 affordable houses and bungalows being built for Guinness Northern Counties in Morecambe Avenue, and on a project to create eight flats for North Lincolnshire Homes in Haig Avenue.

The Haig Avenue development is designed for people with learning difficulties and is a partnership between NLH, the Homes and Communities Agency and North Lincolnshire Council.

As well as acting as assessor for the Code for Sustainable Homes rating, which is an environmental assessment method for rating and certifying the performance of new homes, Focus experts have also been appointed to issue the Energy Performance Certificates and undertake the Standard Assessment Procedures for the two schemes.

“Energy carbon sustainability is one of our key services, and we are very pleased to have extended our reach further north in the county with these two recent appointments from TG Sowerby Developments Ltd,” said senior building surveyor Darren Booker, who is based in Focus’ Boston office in Endeavour Park.

As well as offices in Endeavour Park, Boston, and Manor Farm, Aubourn near Lincoln, Focus has branches in Nottingham, Leicester and London. It provides a range of consultancy services to the construction industry, including construction and property services, project and programme management, energy carbon sustainability support and economic development and funding advice.

For more information visit www.focus-consultants.co.uk

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