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Design for Flexibility

A modular approach to planning can provide flexibility for future reconfigurations and related cost savings. Click the image for more information.

Project Portfolio

Addvance work throughout the UK on design, project management, office reconfigurations and furniture installations. Please click the image to see a sample of our project portfolio

welcome to addvance business solutions

With effect from 31st August 2019 Addvance has relocated the office from Duck Farm Court.

Addvance continues to trade as currently offering  office design,  project management,  approvals,  office furniture  &  logistics services.

Our new office address is

Addvance Business Solutions Ltd

15 Westminster Drive

Aylesbury

Bucks, HP21 7LS

Our warehouse/delivery address remains at Kettering.

All other contact details (phone, e mail) remain as current

Please update your records, invoicing & PO details with immediate effect, thanks.

Addvance safe system of work:

  • Client Responsibilities
  • Competent Designer
  • Appoint CDM Coordinator
  • Design Risk Assessment
  • Client Pre Contract H&S Plan
  • Operation Manuals & Asbestos Report
  • Contractor Accreditation
  • Appoint Competent Principal Contractor
  • Project Programme – adequate project resources & time
  • Construction Phase H&S Plan, Risk Assessments and Method Statements
  • HSE Notification – F10 Form
  • Site Set Up - First Aid, Welfare, Emergency, Access & Security
  • Safety Inductions & Tool Box Talks
  • PPE – Personal Protective Equipment
  • Permit to Work
  • Demolitions, Confined Spaces, Plant Rooms, Hot works, Electrics, Roof, Work at Height
  • Project Progress Meetings and Reports
  • Liaison & Protection – Tenants, Staff & Public
  • Waste Management, Cleaning & Site Maintenance
  • H&S Inspections
  • Deliveries, Materials Handling & Storage
  • Practical Completion & Sign Off
  • H&S File & Operations Manuals

 

 

the client

Prestigious HQ for European & Worldwide operation.

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the project

12000 sq.ft office fit out and design

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the scope

  • Design
  • Approvals
  • Project Management
  • Fit out (including Mechanical & Electrical Works)
  • Furniture Supply & Installation

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the solution

Delivery to programme & budget
Ongoing support, including expansion and reconfiguration

  • Contractor Accreditation
  • Construction Stage H&S Plan
  • Health & Safety Executive Notification F10
  • Project H&S Set Up & Welfare
  • Site Access & Security
  • General Labour
  • Waste Management
  • Cleaning
  • Fit Out Works
    • Strip Out
    • Dilapidation
    • Fit Out
      • Partitions
      • Folding Walls
      • Joinery
      • Ceilings
      • Tea Points
      • Decoration
    • Flooring & Blinds
      • Carpets
      • Vinyl’s
      • Cleaning
      • Dirt Barriers
    • Electrical
      • Small Power
      • IT Clean Power
      • Lighting
      • Emergency Lighting
      • Periodic Testing
    • IT Support, Date & Networking
      • Data Cabling
      • Fibre Optics
      • IT Support & Networks
      • Phones/VOIP
      • Audio Visual
    • Alarms
      • CCTV
      • Access Control
    • HVAC
      • Air Conditioning
      • Heating & Ventilation
      • Plumbing
      • Chlorination
    • Fire Alarms
      • Modification
      • Commissioning
      • Certification
  • Practical Completion Certificate
  • Final Account
  • Operations & H&S Files

This provides accurate drawings for planning approvals, license agreements and working drawings.. All key architectural and M&E features (A/C & Heating, Fire Control, Power and Data and Lighting etc) are included, and accurate measurements of space occupied.

CAD Outline

Completed using AutoCad (both in house and through full time designers), plans can be presented as:

  • 2D drawings up to A0 size
  • 3D drawings
  • 3D Virtual Reality renders

CAD Layout

 

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  • Project Specification
  • Approvals
  • Project Programme
  • Project Insurance
  • Contractor Accreditation
  • Project Delivery
  • Works Scheduling
  • Contract Management
  • CDM Principal Contractor
  • Construction Phase H&S Plan
  • H&S Plan/Risk Assessments
  • H&S Set Up & Welfare
  • Display H&SE F10
  • Site Safety & Security
  • Site Safety Induction
  • CPD – Tool box talks
  • First Aider
  • Fire Warden
  • Waste Management
  • General labour
  • Cleaning
  • Practical Completion/Final Account
  • CIS Tax Compliance
  • Operations Manuals (O&M)

CLIENT INFORMATION
Construction (Design & Management) Regulations.

The client has one of the biggest influences over the way a project is run. They have substantial influence and contractual control and their decisions and approach determine:

• the time, money and other resources available for projects;

• who makes up the project team, their competence, when they are appointed and who does what;

• whether the team is encouraged to co-operate and work together effectively;

• whether the team has the information that it needs about the site and any existing structures;

• the arrangements for managing and co-ordinating the work of the team.

Because of this, they are made accountable for the impact their approach has on the health and safety of those working on or affected by the project. However, the Regulations also recognise that many clients know little about construction health and safety, so clients are not required or expected to plan or manage projects themselves. Nor do they have to develop substantial expertise in construction health and safety, unless this is central to their business. Clients must ensure that various things are done, but are not normally expected to do them themselves.

Web link to responsibilities for clients, designers, principal designers and principal contractors

HSE Advice On CDM 2015 Responsibilities

SUMMARY OF CLIENT RESPONSIBILITIES – always refer to HSE for full list of responsibilities for all parties

  1. Clients will need to appoint a ‘Principal Designer’ for all projects involving more than one contractor (trade contractor) on site at any one time. Designers appointed should not carry out any work beyond initial design unless the Principal Designer has confirmed that the Client is aware of their duties. Addvance recommend AGA who offer a service of discharging both Principal Designer and Client Duties.
  2. The Client must appoint both the Principal Designer and Principal Contractor in writing, otherwise they are deemed to be carrying out these roles.
  3. The Client will need to ensure competence – those that are to be appointed (i.e Designer, Contractor or Principal Contractor and Principal Designer) can demonstrate appropriate information, instruction, training and supervision.
  4. The Client is to ensure a Construction Phase Plan provided by the Contractor or Principal Contractor is in place before any works commence. A Construction Phase Plan is required for all projects.
  5. Notification to the HSE via an F1 is required for projects before works co0mmence if they will exceed 30 construction days with 20 or more workers working simultaneously or if the project exceeds 500 person days.
  6. Provide Principal Designer and Principal Contractor with relevant information about site and existing structures within a Client Brief to include provision of O&M information and identification of risk to include hazardous materials.

SUMMARY OF OTHER CLIENT ACTIVITY

a) Preparation: the Client brief.
b) What do you have to do in the pre-construction phase?

  • Make suitable arrangements for managing the project.
  • Select the project team and formally appoint duty holders.
  • Provide information to help with design and construction planning.
  • Notify the project to the enforcing authorities where required.
  • Check that the principal designer is carrying out their duties.
  • Allow sufficient time and resources are allocated.

c) What do you have to do in the construction phase?

  • Ensure the construction phase plan is in place
  • Ensure welfare facilities are in place.
  • Ensure the management arrangements are working
  • Check completion and handover arrangements

d) What do you have to do in the post-construction phase?

  • Check that the health and safety file has been prepared.
  • Maintain and make available the health and safety file.

 

Addvance are a Senator International dealer partner, the UK’s largest designer & manufacturer of  office furniture under the Senator,  AllermuirTorasen and Special Products Division brands.

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Why?

  1. Work with the best – as a privately owned PLC it is committed to investing to be the best in manufacturing quality, product design and especially service.
  2. Leading Design, Ergonomics and Aesthetic – Senator work with the best designers internationally
  3. Product Quality- made in the UK, made in house and with Senator designed and owned tools
  4. Senator’s wide Product Portfolio caters for all corporate furniture requirement
  5. Senator employ 1100 people and operate in 64 countries worldwide, with manufacturing in the UK, India, China & USA.
  6. Senator are carbon neutral.Senator Recycle
  7. Senator products are designed to be recyclable at end of use.
  8. Senator have 3 recycling plants in the UK including furniture and packaging recycling in house. Your old furniture can be managed.
  9. Senator have an extensive product display over 4 floors at their solution centre studio at Euston

Senator are also main contract suppliers of Bisley storage and Human Scale ergonomic products.

System Furniture

 

Set out drawings showing partition set out, power and data, reflected ceilings, building control requirements. For these we liaise with mechanical and electrical engineers and structural surveyors, which helps maintain building integrity and performance. We also manage at local authority and landlord approvals, including building regulations and hazardous materials.

CAD Power & Data

 

CAD Reflected Ceiling