National Highways Depot

SCAPE and Morgan Sindall are both dedicated to delivering a social and economic boost to local communities across every project. However, due to the remote locations of the depots, this proved challenging.

The team worked closely with Nuneaton Signs, who provides meaningful employment and training for people with disabilities through the production of temporary and permanent signage. More than £100k was also spent with a number of Social Enterprises, whose primary purposes are to try to redress social or environmental imbalances within the construction industry. This helped achieve an average Social Value return of 39%, with more than £8.1m reinvested with the local area. In total, 72% of all projects spend was with businesses located within 30 miles, while 97% of the project spend was with small to medium businesses.

Morgan Sindall constructed two new office buildings and associated external areas at Bescot and Doxey, while also fully refurbishing existing depots at Warndon and Strensham. A new service garage and modular salt barn were also constructed at the Strensham depot.

Conducting the works in parallel helped all four projects to complete in just 10 months whilst also minimising disruptions to the depots and the wider road network. It also guaranteed higher levels of quality and consistency. Following the handover of the first depot, Warndon, the standard for the remaining depots to achieve was set – or as was often the case, surpass. Not only were successes replicated and cost savings passed on, but invaluable ‘lessons learned’ were incorporated into the next project, along with key project members to oversee delivery to the same standard. Following the completion of all four depots, the client scored the project team and handover 9.5/10 and 9/10 respectively, while also scoring the project 9/10 in quality.