About Project

The Allenby and Connaught PFI – MoD project ambitiously aimed to improve the overall quality of living and working of all its resident and personnel.

LOCATION : London and South East England

SERVICE : Corporate Management

VALUE : USD 1,273,002,000 (USD 127,300,200 p/a)

CLIENT : Aspire Defense Limited

SECTOR : Defense / PFI

Overview

In 2006, Kingston acted as a cost consultant and project manager, providing life costing advice for Aspire Defense (Kellogg Brown & Root and Carillion) in order to compete the £1,000m redevelopment of the British Army’s Garrison around Salisbury Plain and Aldershot. The Allenby/Connaught project aimed to provide a modern living and working accommodation for more than 18,000 military and civilian personnel.

The significant elements of the project, for both the new build and the refurbishment, were:

Soldier’s and officer’s single living accommodations (10,000 units);
Dining and public facilities;
Office and conference spaces;
Training spaces;
Workshop and storage spaces (including munitions);
Medical facilities;
Community facilities;
Animal accommodations;
Telephone exchanges, fire stations, museums, and railheads;
Complete infrastructure.