Singapore Sports Hub

The Sports Hub will be Singapore's premier land and sea sports, entertainment and lifestyle hub with integrated programming.
Located on a 35ha site in Kallang, the Sports Hub will include the following facilities:

• A new 55,000-capacity National Stadium with a retractable roof;
• A 6,000-capacity indoor Aquatic Centre that meets world tournament standards;
• A 3,000-capacity multi-purpose arena which will be scalable and flexible in layout;
• 41,000 sq m of commercial space
• A Water Sports Centre
• The existing 12,000-capacity Singapore Indoor Stadium; and
• Supporting leisure and commercial developments

Ref. Singapore Sports Council

John Laing employed Workface Solutions to provide and support a Room Data Sheet database for the Singapore Gold Consortium’s bid for new Singapore Sports Hub PPP/PFI Project.

Workface Solutions tailored the database to suit the Singapore Gold Consortium’s requirements and travelled out to Singapore to install it and train the Bid Team. The database was run from the Architect’s Office (HOK Sports Architecture) in Brisbane; the M&E consultants (CPG/SKM) in Singapore and by John Laing at their London Office, from where the database was managed.

Dorset Emergency Services Partnership Initiative (DESPI)

“Workface Solutions’ Room Data Sheet database was an indispensable tool that enabled our client to be sure that their Fixtures, Fittings and Equipment requirements were accurately interpreted and was of significant use throughout negotiations for Financial Close.”

Paul Gale, Area Director, Morgan Ashurst

Workface Solutions were employed exclusively by Morgan Ashurst (formerly Bluestone) to set up a comprehensive Room Data Sheet database application for the project.

Our first task was to translate the detail contained in the existing and varied independent XL spreadsheets being used at the time by:

• The Architect, Calder Peel Carden Croft for Schedule of Accommodation and finishes.
• Gifford for the M&E technical and environmental requirement matrix.
• The Dorset Police and Fire Service detailing their equipment and furniture requirements.

Once the information was imported and its accuracy proved, Workface Solutions provided a database support service for Morgan Ashurst over several months as they managed the evolving design leading upto the Financial Close.

Cleveland Police Authority PFI (£57m)

We were called in by Laing O’Rourke to initially convert an existing Room Data Sheet database that lacked the ability to itemise and quantify into one that included this essential requirement.

Our work was then extended to use a format similar to that used on previous projects and carrying out training in the use of the database of the four parties.

• Mcbains Cooper - Room Specification and Finishes
• Mcbains Cooper - Building Services
• Laing O’Rourke - Fixtures and Fittings
• Cleveland Police Authority - Equipment

We were then employed to manage the four databases during the final negotiations immediately prior to financial close.

Relocation of Surrey County Hall

We worked for Equion Ltd on this PFI project producing independent Room Data Sheet databases for:

• EPR Architects - Room Specification and Finishes
• Fabel Maunsell - Building Services
• Laing O’Rourke - Fixtures and Fittings
• Equion FM - Equipment

The information from these databases was combined to produce a complete database reporting all four set of data to allow comprehensive reporting

Holloway White Allom

We are involved with HWA on an on-going basis providing Room Data Sheet systems where required that are specifically suited for the high-class property refurbishment and restoration market in which they are so proficient.

MAST LIFT Stage 1a and 1b
Manchester, Salford and Trafford Local Improvement Finance Trust

We worked with Laing O'Rourke on the pre Financial Close stages to transfer the existing data from the NHS ADB to a user-friendly Room Data Sheet application with full reporting and exporting options

Bristol Schools BSF Phase 1B and C PFI

We were employed by Equion Ltd and Laing O’Rourke to convert the Room Data Sheets for the 15 schools/units from the original contract document Word table format into Access Room Data Sheet format.

Greater Manchester Police Authority

Working for Laing O'Rourke, we developed four separate databases, one for each of the main parties involved in the PFI project; and combined the results into one master database, to produce a complete set of Room Data Sheets for the 16 Police Stations in the Greater Manchester Police

Norfolk and Norwich Hospital

For this project we abstracted the components usage data from the NHS Activity database (ADB) to develop a standalone Lotus Approach database, giving comprehensive details of what equipment was required in each room on the project and details of where any specific component was used within the project.

Glasgow Royal Infirmary
New Maternity and ERPB Unit

Working for John Laing Construction on this project, we transferred the data from the NHS ADB, initially into a Lotus Approach database, which recreated the NHS Room Data Sheets and tracked component usage; and later into an Access 97 database, doing the same. We also ran comparisons between Tender requirements and final specification.

Metropolitan Police

We worked for John Laing Construction / Laing O'Rourke on both the Police Firearms and Public Training Facility and the South East London Police Stations projects.

On the Police Firearms and Public Training Facility we wrote Room Data Sheet databases for both the main contractor and the M&E contractor, and combined the results with those from the Architect to produce complete Room Data Sheet sets.

On the South East London Police Stations project, we combined the contractors and the M&E databases

Contact the Elderly

Workface Solutions developed a replacement database for their membership/contact database and transferred their existing data from their previous Access flat file structure into the new relational platform. Subsequently, we transferred the Lotus Approach database of their Welsh Regional Officer into a bespoke Access relational database.

"If you are looking at database design or improvements we would highly recommend Workface Solutions. With Workface Solution's advice, patience and help we managed to transform our basic database into one that is user-friendly and extremely efficient. We are now able to extract important data and produce vital reports at the touch of a button (or two!)."

Karen Lines
HR and Operations Manager

Holloway White Allom Client Database

We developed a bespoke Client database to replace an existing Lotus Approach model to record details of Clients, Companies, Projects and Marketing Functions, including retrieving all the existing data from the previous Approach Database and transferring it to the new Access version.

Gibson Music Ltd Client Database

Following the acquisition of Gibson Music by Holloway White Allom in October 2004 we were asked to develop a version of the HWA Client database to suit the business requirements of Gibson Music business. We undertook this and successfully extracted the data from a previous database and reshaped it to suit the new data structure.

Information Required database

A simple database to assist project control by recording details of information requested, when it is required, who is responsible etc which simply schedules details of outstanding information grouped by the responsibility for providing it.