WSP’s innovative program delivery approach connects a program-level briefing tool to a repeatable kit-of-parts, significantly enhancing how the Environment Agency designs and costs its depots. This initiative is projected to reduce project time by 40% while enabling customization at scale.
The Environment Agency is building a series of depots across England. These buildings will house the people, equipment and materials the Agency uses to protect and improve the environment. While all depots will feature common elements like office spaces and training facilities, some will also have unique requirements such as boat storage, laboratories, or workshops.
With the Environment Agency under pressure to keep costs down and to get the depots operational as quickly as possible, WSP’s digital innovation and project management specialists have worked with the client team to take a programmatic approach to their estate, making each project more predictable, focused, faster, future-ready, and cost-effective. It enables program-level decision-making on sustainability, modern methods of construction and other key drivers – underpinned by an offsite manufacturing strategy mobilized through innovative procurement approaches.
This approach reduces the number of routine decisions made by the project team so they can address the unique challenges of each depot. By automating much of the process from briefing into design, and onwards to manufacturing and assembly, we can improve productivity and by using a built-in feedback mechanism generate further program-level efficiencies in real-time.