Feasibility Study and Outline Design of Millennium Mills Redevelopment

As in the real world you will be dealing with ambiguous and uncertain situations and information. You will need to manage, mitigate and justify any assumptions according to your best professional understanding.  You must deliver to your client a professional report that addresses their concerns and puts forward your suggested outline design / action plan with ways to implement that plan.  It is important to remember that you are acting as a professional consultant and must put forward what you believe to be the most appropriate solution remembering you have a professional duty to society which may be contrary to your client’s needs.

This assignment will expect you to work closely in your student teams to collaborate and produce the desired module outcomes.  It will also involve you undertaking detailed individual research and exposition.  There are three parts to the assessment of this module and they are included in this one assignment in three main parts:

1.Collaborative/ Group Feasibility Presentation 20%

2.Group Case Study, with individual student section - 60% weighting (50% individual section /10% Group collaboration)

3.Individual Mental Wealth Reflective Log.  – 20% weighting

The technical issues will be covered in parts (1) and (2) and your professional ability to manage yourself and the group work will be demonstrated in the Reflective Log (3).  

If you undergo difficulties in your group or individual work these will need to be explained and justified in your Reflective Log in the correct format as you will be assessed on how well you have coped with managing change during this work – See ‘Part C : Reflective Log and Summary Report’  for details below.  

Tutor Assessed

It is expected that all students will attend all class sessions including the practice presentations – 5% marks will be deducted where attendance is not consistently high.

2.2 Management and Monitoring Progress

The assignment will consist of five team members, in which you will responsible for one task each but ultimately the whole project must be joined up.   Preparing students to engage with a variety of people in the work place. It is not always possible to work with close friends in industry, but the ability to work as a team and meet deadlines on time, this is paramount.  It is advisable for the group to meet weekly to plan work and report on progress.  Keep a log of all the challenges that you face as both a group and an individual and reflect upon this in your Reflective Log.

All your collaborative group work needs to be uploaded and documented using MicroSoft© ‘Teams’ platform Private Channels.  Details of how to access this will be provided in your tutorials.

3.Project Brief - The Millennium Mills Redevelopment

Cities across the world are already feeling the effects of the climate crisis and need to ensure that they are resilient to a future which could result in a variety of changeable weather, such as more powerful rainfall events, higher temperatures and sea level rise. This means that all new developments need to be designed to be resilient in an uncertain world in 2050 to ensure that the people living, working and visiting there are safe, healthy, comfortable and productive.  Silvertown Quays in London’s Royal Docks is a waterside site which will be developed over the next 10-15 years and needs to be designed to be 2050-ready.

The client has already received several proposals regarding the refurbishment of the Mills but remain unsatisfied about these proposals.  Details of the context and background to the Millennium Mills can be found in the Appendix A

Your team is an engineering consultancy company and have been commissioned by the lead developer Lendlease to carry out a feasibility study and outline design for the redevelopment of the Millennium Mills located on the southern side of the Royal Victoria Dock and associated infrastructure. You will be considering plot 4 for the construction of a new building to facilitate the client’s requirements below. Basic details, site plans are provided on the Moodle site for EG7034 – with further documentary details and materials accessed on line form the Newham London Borough Planning Portal.  

Access details of which are in Appendix B.

Project requirements

Lendlease are looking to you for answers as to how to achieve from the project the most appropriate:

• Sustainable approach to design that will provide long term benefit to the local and wider area of East London.
• An integrated infrastructure strategy and improved access and transport links for the local people and businesses.
• A strong commercial strategy & evidence that the development with be financially viable and meet its legal requirements.
• Demonstrate that they meet the needs of local and regional stakeholders and environmental planning obligations
• A clear procurement strategy and safe construction programme