Allenby/Connaught Project Summary
Project Allenby/Connaught has one simple mission – to make life better for some 18,700 soldiers (nearly 20% of the British Army) by providing modern, high quality, fully serviced, purpose-built living and working accommodation. The contract was awarded to Aspire Defence Limited, a joint venture between Carillion and KBR, in April 2006.
In addition to a major £1.4Bn 8-year construction programme involving the new build or refurbishment of 562 buildings and the demolition of 496, the 35 year project encompasses a wide range of support services including catering, cleaning, transport, estate management, document production and handling, stores and waste disposal. The Project has a total through life value of some £8Bn and covers Army Garrisons across Salisbury Plain and at Aldershot.
In average, one new building is delivered to the Army each week. Buildings include offices, stores, training facilities, dining centres, sports and leisure facilities, but the core is 261 accommodation units and in all the project will deliver or maintain 11,500 single en-suite bedspaces for single soldiers.
This is not just a "quick fix". Buildings will not be allowed to degenerate and they will be maintained throughout the life of the contract.
A key feature of the contract is the help desk physically located at each of the garrisons. The help desk provides a telephone, walk in and email point of contact for advice and assistance on all of the services that Aspire are responsible for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The helpdesks receive an average of 5,900 calls per month of which in excess of 98.4% are answered within 30 seconds.
- In the 5 1/2 years since the project began:over 8,000 bedspaces have been delivered
- 414 new buildings constructed and 406 demolitions completed with 97% re-use of material