The facts:
Client: Skanska & Serco
Location: Uttoexter
Start date: September 2007
Completion date: January 2010
Sector: Justice
Procurement method: PFI
Cost: £53m
Services: Architecture
The project:
The original HMP Dovegate was an 800 place category B
prison incorporating a 200 place therapeutic rehabilitation unit.
As a training prison it provides opportunities for the
rehabilitation of sentenced prisoners and works with serious
offenders often with a history of disruptive
behaviour.
In 2007 the prison
was expanded, in order to support the increase in numbers, several
buildings needed to be extended and refurbished, and new buildings
designed and constructed. These include:
- new 260 unit House Block
- associated new Training College
- reorganisation of the Healthcare unit
- northern extension to the Sport Hall
- extension to the Kitchens
- alterations and extensions to the Visitor Suite
- new property store
- extension to the Chapel
The project represented a positive contribution to the local
environment – turning a brown-field site into an area of
biodiversity that is continuing to attract wildlife. At the time of
completion, the original prison also received recognition as the
‘Greenest’ prison development in the country by the Home
Office.
The expansion was awarded the Contractor’s Internal
International Project of the Year’ award in 2010.