Green light for new Urology Department at Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford

Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health and MP for South West Surrey, will be digging the first piece of turf for the new Urology Centre at Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford on the 2nd October 2015.

K2 Consultancy are handling the project and commercial management of the development on behalf of the Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust.

John Setra Founder and Managing Director for K2 Consultancy said: “This is a challenging and exciting project that we are proud to be involved in.  We’ve identified and liaised with all the key internal and external stakeholders to ensure that the design is developed to fully meet the Trusts needs whilst ensuring the best value.”

The new centre includes: 5 consulting rooms, 3 diagnostic and treatment rooms with recovery areas, a state of the art Multi-Disciplinary Team room and lecture theatre and Research laboratory.   The building has been designed to the highest levels of sustainability, having a BREEAM Excellent rating.

The construction of a new wing links to the 25 year clinical vision and strategy for the Trust in order to meet the forecast growth in demand and to provide the best practice healthcare to our patients. 

This development has been made possible with the funding of The Prostate Project charitable funding and through investment from the Trust.

The Centre will provide world class care and treatment under the direction of Prof Stephen Langley (Professor and Clinical Director of Urology), who has been central to the design and specification of the new facility.

Client: Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust

Project Manager/Quantity Surveyor:  John Setra, K2 Consultancy

Civil and Structural Engineers:  Clarkebond

Architect:  ADP

M&E:  CBG Consultant

OLYMPICS BOSS JOINS K2

Olympic Development Authority Executive Management board member, Mike Cornelius is to join fast growing property and construction consultancy K2 Group as Main Board Director.

Mike, who was responsible for the construction and handover of the Olympic Village retrofit to the legacy owners following the successful 2012 games, will be tasked with expanding the range of services and sectors already offered by K2 Group beyond its existing quantity surveying, project management and construction management services.

As a Member of ODA Executive Management Board Mike had overall responsibility for the procurement, supply chain management, commercial governance and assurance, contract management, compliance and commercial close out and reported directly to the Chairman of the ODA.

Commenting on his new role at K2, Mike said, “I have spent the last six years in a senior role delivering the Olympic venues and more recently as the Director responsible for the legacy conversion of the Olympic Village to 2818 homes. I believe that my experience of delivering high profile major programmes will allow K2 to widen its potential range of services and clients.”

Having previously worked at Currie & Brown as head of its Gatwick Airport team and then at British Airports Authority (BAA), where he was Head of Commercial Capital Projects between 2003 and 2008, Mike’s appointment is the perfect fit with K2, whose founding background in 2001 was the Aviation sector before expanding into other areas.

John Setra, Managing Director at K2 says ‘We are delighted that Mike is joining K2 to reinforce our senior management team, bringing a level of experience and industry best practice to our clients and our organisation.  This also builds upon our recent merger with Rider Hunt (London) and supports our long-term plans for expansion.  We are very optimistic about the future, particularly now that Mike is part of our team.’

REDEVELOPMENT UNDERWAY AT 350 BASINGSTOKE ROAD READING

In Reading the old and tired 1980’s buildings at this site are currently being demolished, or ripped apart by J Mould’s (of Reading) largest pieces of plant. A soft strip commenced prior to Christmas 2014, and the main demolition commenced on the 5th of January 2015. The demolition and site clearance is due for completion early February 2015.  Over 90% of the materials being removed from the site will be recycled. In addition, tree protection has been installed to safeguard some of the more mature trees on site.

In place of these buildings, the developer, Jansons Property, are constructing two new buildings containing an Aldi supermarket, Greene King pub/restaurant and new Pure Gym.  Planning consent was received last July. An artist’s impression of the new development is shown. This will transform this site into a great addition for this neighbourhood of Reading, creating over 40 new jobs.

K2 Consultancy are providing their Project Management and Cost Consultancy expertise to Janson’s on this development.

K2 SUPPORT CRASH APPEAL FOR CHRISTMAS

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We have donated our Christmas card budget towards @CRASHcharity, who help the homeless rebuild their lives www.crashcares.com/k2-consultancy

Happy Christmas from everyone at K2 Consultancy to all our existing and future clients.

STRATFORD ONE GOES LIVE

Standing at 25 storeys high, Stratford One is now fully operational as a landmark 1001 bedroom student accommodation scheme which also incorporates a coach park in Stratford City, East London. The project provides stunning views over the Olympic Park, offering a high standard accommodation to UK and International students studying in London. Working with the Unite Group, the leading developer and manager of student accommodation in the UK, K2 Consultancy were appointed as Project Manager, Cost Consultant & Employer’s Agent to this construction project close HS1, Docklands Light Railway and the Westfield Shopping Centre.

IT'S A K2 MOVEMBER

Please show your support by tracking the progress of several K2 team members throughout Movember and kindly donating http://t.co/qLFT6gjPF2

Movember, the month formerly known as November, is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men's health.

MOLERACING 2014 - 1st 3 rounds

Winter Developments

4th overall in last years SBD British Sprint Championship was celebrated at the awards dinner - although
I did get a lot of abuse for my shirt!
After the major expense of the new engine, I'd blown my budget midway through 2013! Mike Musson kindly helped with a lot of suspension analysis and we found a few issues that have now been corrected.
A new clutch hydraulic slave cylinder and having the shock absorbers serviced all has made the car much better to drive so far this season.

Click here for complete PDF of Moleracing event report and stats.







Rockingham
Never been here before and it was a hot spring day for a club meeting shakedown. Terry and Graham in the V8 Lola also had the same idea, and I ended up 2nd overall behind Terry. But it was a useful opening event to test things out.

Castle Combe
A favourite circuit and also the fastest in the calendar. We had a great evening celebrating Mikes 60th - walking to the local restaurant and Mike treated Martin and I to a very nice meal, and maybe I did mix my drinks a little too much, and I do confess to feeling queasy until lunchtime. Anyhow, I'd done enough to qualify for the run off and scraped in in 124.48 in 10th place. Feeling better and with new tyres, a new PB for the venue and a 122.47 and 5th place.


Pulled some good points out the bag with a late flourish! An on-board video can be seen by clicking here. Note to self - don't start an event hungover again!












Croft
I was good to be back at this Northern circuit after a 4 year break, and also great to be supported by Chris and Jonny, who maintained and prepared the car, the datalogging and ECU software updates faultlessly all day.

The circuit is a medium speed venue - top speed of 130mph, but has many challenging flowing bends. A good entry 90 plus and a class of 10 2 litre cars. My previous PB was 74.20 set in '09, so I was confident of beating this, but also hoping to get good overall points in the run off. Timed run 1 was a good start at 72.20 and just 1/2 second behind class leader Mark Smith. I was told he was feeling under pressure as he put the best run off tyres for T2 and would have gone better had he done the wheel nut up properly! After a banker 1st run off, Jonny handed me the laptop whilst strapped in the car getting ready for a do or die final run. He had analysed the data logging traces and identified what areas needed working on and basically, it was braking - much less of it - just carry the speed – easier said than done!

I gave it everything and tried not to 'leave anything on the table' and was rewarded with a 70.57 just a snip behind Marks 70.33, to finish 5th overall. Up front Heather beat her dad in the big Gould with a new lap record of 67.49 to take the lead in the British championship!

Lydden
The forecast was bad - or good, if like me you like driving in the rain. I decided to bite the bullet and invest in a new set of wet tyres for the weekend, and £1010 later, I had a brand new set of slicks, hand cut into wets and hoped the forecast was correct.

Assisted by Martin again, we arrived and set up the night before - the car causing lots of interest from the Apex festival goers - perhaps 1000+ having a good time over the weekend. A low beer evening (not wanting to repeat Castle Combe hangover again), early to bed and then the rain started, yippee!

The SBD team had frantically worked on Bills car - changing clutch and machine the cylinder head - on the Friday, but at around midnight they gave up the assembly due to problems - it was all too tight, they had a few hours sleep then got up early to get to the circuit. I on the other hand was lying nice and snug in bed as they clattered and unloaded!

I was pleased to be lying 1st after the wet practice and then again 1st after timed run 1, however it was now rapidly drying and the slicks were put on. 3rd overall for timed run 2 wasn’t too shabby. Poor Terry Holmes had a spin on both runs, and the pre event favourite was reduced to trolley dolly role for Graham! The 1200 mile round trip for heather and Colin meant they hadn’t entered and so good points were on the cards.

Spurred on by the watching eyes of John of K2 Consultancy and family, Martin and Ian, we had a good plan, and this feedback led to a final run off time that was 2 secs inside my PB and I bagged 2nd place, just 1.2secs behind Mark Smith who took his first British win. Craig from SBD was less than 0.2 behind me then Steve Broughton in the new Dallara, so it was an SBD 1-2-3-4!

What then followed was a first, the UK Anti Doping agency then squirreled the top 3 away for drugs testing and breathalysing. Pleased to record 0.00 on the blower, but the sample took a lot longer to produce than I'd hoped for, but an hour later, my A and B samples were signed sealed and delivered! I await the results.

Steve

Click here for complete PDF of Moleracing event report and stats.