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Keep up to dateGuideline areas for generic spaces | ||
Room use | Comment | Room size m² |
WC for the disabled, pantry, cleaners’ room or disposal holding room | 4.5-5 | |
Counselling, staff or client interview, single person office, clean utility, dirty utility room, nurses’ weighing room | 9-10 | |
Examination/consultation, treatment room, single person therapy treatment space, small group/meeting room for four to six people, two-person office | 13.5-15 | |
Treatment room, group room for six to eight people, meeting room for eight to 10 people, office for three or four people. These rooms could be connected by folding acoustic screens, to be opened up for larger group or therapy activities | Such a space could also be sub-divided to form two 9-10 m² rooms | 18-20 |
Allowance: circulation, subdivision, voids, service ducts etc | 28-30% | |
Source: Planning and design guidance - primary and social care facilities. Dimensions of public spaces such as waiting rooms are defined in Health Building Note HBN 40 – Common Activity Spaces. |
Primary healthcare centre cost breakdown | |||
element cost | cost/m² gfa £ | % of total cost | |
Substructure | 56,850.00 | 111.47 | 8.97 |
Excavation and disposal140 m3 @ 30 | |||
Strip foundation with cavity masonry wall 150 m @ 130 | |||
150 mm thick ground floor slab with thickenings 510 m² @ 65 | |||
Roof | 83,050.00 | 162.84 | 13.10 |
Precast concrete planks 510 m² @ 55 | |||
Single ply membrane, including insulation and labours 510 m² @ 90 | |||
Allowance for roof inlets Item @ 2,500 | |||
Aluminium rainwater down pipes 30 m @ 60 | |||
Sunpipes 8 @ 600 | |||
External walls | 33,600.00 | 65.88 | 5.30 |
Brick cavity wall, facing brick outer skin with cavity, insulation, | |||
140 mm inner blockwork leaf 240 m² @ 140 | |||
Windows and external doors | 49,650.00 | 97.35 | 7.83 |
Aluminium double-glazed windows 60 m² @ 350 | |||
Single aluminium doors 3 @ 1,400 | |||
Double aluminium framed glazed doors and screens to entrance 22 m² @ 500 | |||
Single steel door to plant room Item @ 1,300 | |||
Fixed metal grilles to windows Item @ 5,000 | |||
Electrical roller shutter to glazed entrance screens, including controls 22 m² @ 325 | |||
Internal walls | 18,400.00 | 36.08 | 2.90 |
100 blockwork 470 m² @ 35 | |||
Stud partition Item @ 450 | |||
Security counter grille to reception desk Item @ 1,500 | |||
Internal doors | 28,750.00 | 56.37 | 4.53 |
Internal doors, wood veneer, stainless steel ironmongery 20 @ 900 | |||
Internal doors and screen, inner door to lobby 5m²@ 500 | |||
Wrot softwood storage cupboard door, stainless steel ironmongery 3 @ 450 | |||
Fire-rated doors, stainless steel ironmongery 5 @ 1,100 | |||
Double internal fire rated doors, stainless steel ironmongery Item @ 1,400 | |||
Wall finishes | 16,800.00 | 32.94 | 2.65 |
Plaster and one mist coat, three coats of emulsion paint 900 m² @ 15 | |||
Ceramic wall tiles 60 m² @ 55 | |||
Floor finishes | 23,850.00 | 46.76 | 3.76 |
Screed 510m² @ 15 | |||
Carpet tiles to reception area, staff areas 145 m² @ 25 | |||
Vinyl to WC areas and practical areas, including skirtings 320 m² @ 30 | |||
Heavy duty vinyl to entrance area, dirty areas 40 m² @ 40 | |||
Entrance matting with aluminium matwell 5 m² @ 275 | |||
Ceiling finishes | 17,575 | 34.46 | 2.77 |
Mineral fibre suspended ceilings 80 m² @ 30 | |||
Plasterboard ceiling, plaster skim and emulsion paint finish 405 m² @ 35 | |||
Moisture resistance plasterboard ceiling, plaster skim and emulsion finish 25 m² @ 40 | |||
Fittings and fixings | 32,700 | 64.12 | 5.16 |
Supply and install group one medical equipment (fixed furniture) | |||
Fit only group two and three medical equipment (loose equipment) | |||
Reception area, desks and fixed furniture item @ 8,000 | |||
Waiting room item @ 5,000 | |||
Consulting rooms 6 @ 1,600 | |||
Treatment rooms 2 @ 1,100 | |||
Nurse rooms, including health visitor 4 @ 1,100 | |||
Records store Item @ 500 | |||
Admin rooms 2 @ 600 | |||
Multipurpose/interview rooms 2 @ 900 | |||
Sanitary fittings | 14,280 | 28.00 | 2.25 |
WCs 6 @ 300 | |||
Hand basins 6 @ 180 | |||
Medical handwash basins 12 @ 500 | |||
Disabled toilet, including WC, wash hand basin, grab rails and other fittings 2 @ 1,200 | |||
Cleaners sink, 510 × 380 2 @ 700 | |||
Baby changing unit Item @ 400 | |||
Sink and slop hopper Item @ 1,200 | |||
Disposal installations | 4,080 | 8.00 | 0.64 |
Waste, soil and vent installation; PVCu pipework and fittings 510 m² @ 8.00 | |||
Water installations | 13,300 | 26.08 | 2.10 |
Cold water system 28 @ 250 | |||
Hot water system 21 @ 300 | |||
Space heating and air treatment | 40,800 | 80.00 | 6.44 |
Space heating, all costs associated with the supply and installation of the heating system, | |||
temperature control and distribution pipework 510 m² @ 80 | |||
Ventilation installations | 19,500 | 38.24 | 3.08 |
Extract ventilation to clean areas Item @ 12,000 | |||
Extract ventilation to dirty areas Item @ 5,000 | |||
Extract ventilation to toilet areas Item @ 2,500 | |||
Electrical installations | 45,900 | 90.00 | 7.24 |
Mains and sub-mains installation 510 m² @ 20 | |||
Small power installation 510 m² @ 30 | |||
Lighting and general luminaires; emergency lighting 510 m² @ 40 | |||
Gas installation | 1,500 | 2.94 | 0.24 |
Lightning protection installation | 2,000 | 3.92 | 0.32 |
Communications installation | 25,400 | 49.80 | 4.01 |
Fire alarm installation; smoke detectors; call points 510 m² @ 15 | |||
Telephone and data wireways; internal telephone system 510 m² @ 5 | |||
Patient call and induction loop systems Item @ 5,000 | |||
Security installation; intruder detection, panic buttons, disabled toilet alarm, | |||
CCTV 510 m² @ 20 | |||
Building management system installation | 5,000 | 9.80 | 0.79 |
Builder’s work in connection | 4,500 | 8.82 | 0.71 |
Preliminaries and contingencies | 96,515 | 189.25 | 15.22 |
Preliminaries allow 15% Item 80,400 | |||
Contingencies allow 3% Item 16,115 | |||
Total construction cost – building only | 634,000.00 | 1,243.14 | 100.00 |
Alternative specifications | £/m² change based on gifa | ||
Option 1: Provide access door controls to single door | 1.50 | ||
Option 2: Automatic sliding door to entrance | 45.00 | ||
Option 3: Anti bacterial wipe-down paint to consulting, nurses and treatment rooms | 12.00 | ||
Option 4: Replace flat roof with pitched roof and concrete tiles | –38.00 | ||
Option 5: Replace facing brick cavity wall with rendered blockwork cavity wall | –8.50 | ||
Option 6: Enhanced security, roller shutters to windows | 65.00 | ||
Option 7: Sliding folding partition to divide large room | 12.00 | ||
Option 8: Replacing vinyl tiles with rubber tiles | 15.00 | ||
Option 9: Sound-absorbent walling to waiting room | 10.50 | ||
Option 10: Add shower for staff | 6.50 |
Location factors | |
Inner London | 1.09 |
Outer London | 1.03 |
South-west | 0.97 |
East Midlands | 0.93 |
West Midlands | 0.93 |
East Anglia | 0.97 |
Wales | 0.91 |
Yorkshire and Humberside | 0.95 |
North-west | 0.94 |
North | 0.94 |
Scotland | 0.92 |
Northern Ireland | 0.75 |