Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus Bristol

Project overview

Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus (TQEC) is a flagship development that brings the University of Bristol to the commercial centre of the city, to the east of Brunel’s iconic Temple Meads station, to anchor it in the economic renaissance and renewal of Bristol and the wider city-region. TQEC will provide the space to reimagine the University’s role as one of the world’s great civic universities, empowering and enabling a transformed relationship with the city region, its businesses, communities, and government.

The TQA1 (Temple Quarter Academic 1) Building will support the economic growth of Bristol and the wider West of England by:

Strengthening the role of Bristol City Centre as an economic powerhouse, bringing together high densities of knowledge-intensive firms, innovators and entrepreneurs, investors, and anchor institutions for innovation, including the University of Bristol, and Government;
Acting as a catalyst and hub for the creation of an innovation district in the Temple Quarter area, which could significantly enhance the economic growth and competitiveness of the city as a whole;
Solving societal challenges as part of a mission-orientated approach, providing a clear focus for innovation and business growth interventions, and creating social and environmental (as well as economic) value; Accelerating productivity growth in Bristol; and,
Supporting inclusive growth, enabling people to access opportunities that will be created in the Temple Quarter.
The first phase of the TQEC includes development of a new 6 storey 38,350m2 academic building (TQA1).
Public Realm / Highway Works
Permanent landscaping works

See rendered images of scheme design for the TQA1 building;

Schedule of Work – July to October 2024

Completion of reinforced concrete frame
Completion of ground floor drainage and slabs
Installation of precast concrete cladding panels to ground floor perimeter
Commencement of unitised cladding façade panels
Commencement of roofing works
Internal works including blockwork, scaffolding, mechanical and electrical installations

Construction update as of July 2024

Works at TQA1 continue to remain on programme. The main reinforced concrete frame is now complete to Level 5 and more than 50% of roof level has also been constructed. Over 14,000m3 of concrete has now been poured, with less than 2,000m3 remaining.

Precast concrete cladding panels to the ground floor facade are underway, with the first 120no. panels installed using a crawler crane around the perimeter of the building.

The ground floor internal works have continued to make good progress, with over 60% of the ground floor slab now cast, and being followed by wind post, blockwork and scaffolding installations.

Mechanical and electrical works have also now commenced, with mechanical pipework riser modules being installed to 3 of the 4 cores, and 3 no. 8 tonne thermal storage vessels have been delivered to site. The below ground incoming water main pipework has now been completed, and installation of the incoming high-voltage cabling will follow later this month.

Off-site fabrication is also making great progress. Over 350 no. unitised cladding façade panels have been completed, ready for installation from September.

Additional Information

BAM Nuttall works to the construction of the Temple Meads Eastern Entrance are progressing with structure now erected and glass cladding installed.

BAM Nuttall continue to use their exclusive entrance, adjoining the existing temple meads railway bridge for access and egress of plant and deliveries in accordance with their traffic management plans and agreement with BCC (Bristol City Council).

Social Value

The project’s Social Return on Investment (SROI) is attributed to local employment, charity work, education talks and work experience programmes. Since commencement of this project, the following have been delivered to contribute to the project SROI:

Educational visits and open door events
Charitable giving
Local job creation

We endeavour to implement social value on all our projects and leave a positive lasting legacy. For this project we have some ambitious projects and have already funded £24,910 to 11 local charities based in Bristol including:

One 25 - Night Outreach Van
Bristol Mind
1625 Independent People
Let’s Talk about Loss
Dame Emily Park project
Helping Homeless Believe

We are extending our support for homelessness with site initiatives for clothing alongside financial support given to promote opportunities and provide essentials.

We have joined with our client the University of Bristol to launch a DEC (Design Engineer Construct) programme with a local Bristol secondary school – more to follow but this will be a first for Bristol and help promote stem subjects in Bristol. Our site is also being used as a learning resource with multiple visits by different engineering groups to support their academic syllabus.

A cycling safety event will be arranged over the coming months to promote effective measures to keep our cycling community safe when on the road in Bristol.

Our social value employment and skills metrics are being tracked as the project progresses and we are now in a position to share the performance against our targets for the project as of the end of January 2024. Further updates will build upon these figures as we look forward towards new trades starting.

Item	KPI		Unit	Achieved	Achieved %
1	Work placements	50	People	20	40%
2	Jobs created	35	People	16	46%
3	Construction Careers information, Advice and Guidance events	27	Events	11	41%
4	Waged training Weeks	2995	Weeks	564	19%
5	Qualifying the workforce	80	People	51	64%
6	Training plans	9	Number	9	100%
7	Case studies	4	Number	2	50%

Our site was independently assessed by the nationally recognised Considerate Contractors Scheme on 11th December 2023, and was awarded a maximum score of 45 out of 45. This has been made possible by pooling best practice examples from both our business and the wider industry for which we are extremely thankful. Extract of report below.

SCORING
Respect Community	Excellent - 15/15
Care for the Environment	Excellent - 15/15	A score of 9 in a Section or 27 for the Total Report Score reflects a conforming score for the code of Considerate Practice
Value their Workforce	Excellent - 15/15	For more information on the Monitor Checklist, scoring descriptors, the Scheme's definition of innovation and report writing standards, visit www.ccscheme.org.uk
Total Report Score	Excellent - 45/45

Pedestrians and Cyclists

Safe access and egress of our site vehicles over the public use of the footpath and cycleways is of paramount importance to us. As such we have worked closely with Bristol City Council over the past 12 months to develop proposals to address the changing needs of the site. In the summer last year we have constructed a new layby and site entrance.

Following initial and footpath and cycleway traffic calming measures, we have extended tarmac roads into the site to aid effective cleaning of transport, and enhanced our site standards by training our full time gate persons to CLOCS Standards.

Our traffic calming measures have been agreed with Bristol City Council, and will be supported using our gate personnel to control our construction traffic. Our aim is united with the council, and our client the University of Bristol, to install effective measures to control the risk to public from the site’s traffic movements.

We have illustrated the approved layout of these measures below;

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Sustainability Performance

We aim to ensure our construction activities do not harm the local environment. To drive sustainability on the project we set deliverables around key focus areas. These include both Resource Efficiency and Social Value.

To date over 87,000 tonnes of key building materials have been procured by our supply chain. 97% of these materials have responsible sourcing certification. Obtaining certification gives confidence that the manufacturers of these materials have responsibly managed their environmental and social impact.

The generation of construction waste continues to be a challenge. We utilise ‘take back schemes’ where suppliers collect packaging waste from site, such as wooden pallets. We also have a contract with BWRP (Bristol Wood Recycling Project) to collect and reuse timber from construction. These schemes allow the reuse of materials and reduce our impact on natural resources. Current performance to date includes;

Social Return on Investment - £993,133 Local

Local Employment (South West) - 51%

% Key Building Materials Responsibly Sourced - 99%

Construction Waste Diverted from Landfill - 97%

Community events on site

Dr Bike Road Safety Event

We organised a fantastic 'Dr. Bike road safety event' for our local cycling community, in collaboration with Bristol Council and Better by Bike.

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Bake sale for Maggie's

We are proud to have built several of its important centres across the UK. Our site recently held a bake sale on 20th May and raised £77.80 + gift aid for the charity.

Our partnership with Maggie's