Construction Cost

[chrisgr31]

Can anyone help give a rough cost of construction for me.

Situation is I run a community hall where part of the building is made of old prefab buildings. We want to knock them down and replace them with a more traditional construction. Single storey width 7.68 m length 16.56m therefore total area 127.68 sq m. Going to contain a meeting room, kitched, toilets nothing flash.

Also we want to demolish our stage and replace it. There are rooms underneath so this will be 2 storey 13.8m by 13.85m. Stage doesn't need to be to professional standard floor to ceiling height of around 15ft probably.

I will be adding professional fees at 10% VAT at 17.5% and a contingency of 10%, and the building is in Sussex.

I just need a rough estimate of cost to see if the proposal is anywhere near viable.

Thanks

Chris

[Davi]

I'd look at a budget of between £60-£100 per sq ft - depends on a lot of factors really but you should be able to get it between those figures.

[GetCarter]

I'm currently building a house.. it's costing about £900 per sq metre - so 60-£100 per sq ft sounds right to me... hence £90k - £115k. I'd get a decent quantity surveyor in to do his stuff asap. (The simple construction of the hall may save a lot).

Steve


>> Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 24th December 21:12

[alexkp]

I have overseen a few public construction projects in the past - I think you will probably find that £1200-£1500 per square metre might be closer to the mark for what you are proposing. Factors such as availability of utilities will also play a part.

I am not entirely clear on the stage you describe - does it have storage beneath it? Or a space above for flying sets etc? You say it is two storey.

I would suggest contacting a couple of other villiage hall committees/parish councils who have recently had new halls built and seeing what they say.

>> Edited by alexkp on Saturday 24th December 22:45

[chrisgr31]

anonymous said:

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The site slopes so the stage is effectively at first floor level. The Lower Ground floor under it is used as a changing room. I am not intending for the stage to be tall enough to allow sets to fly.

Would talk to other Village HAll committees but at present time don;t have sufficient time. Need to get details to someone for a funding bid within the next couple of days. Fortunately at this stage I can be fairly non-commital but I need to know whether I need £300k, 400k or £500k. And I know the obvious answer is to say £500k but in that case I then need to be sure I can find the partnership funing of upto 25%!

[Pat H]

Don't forget to factor in £100,000,000,000 for any asbestos you might trip up over.....

[Davi]

If you dont have enough time to talk to anyone about it, I'd suggest you add a good margin for error on the figures - problem is you really can pick the figures out the air - I've financed projects that cost £35 per sq ft and ones that cost £200 per sq ft, there are so many defining factors that you need to go into details of to budget. The £60-£100 /sq ft I mention is just based on averages I've seen, but as said above you could go quite a bit over that.

[chrisgr31]

Pat H said:

Don't forget to factor in £100,000,000,000 for any asbestos you might trip up over.....

Hmmm odd you should mention that as I suspect that is something I might fall over!