Gloucester - Civic
Ryder were part of the winning consortium for a major project to provide new facilities for the Avon and Somerset Constabulary, contributing to the wider strategic project to provide new build accommodation across four sites: Gloucester Road, Express Parkway, Keynsham, and Blackrock Quarry.
Express Park provides the regional operations base for Avon and Somerset Police, housing administration support facilities, a 36 cell custody suite including prosecution and investigation accommodation, and external parking.
The design responds to the varying scales of the building elements and precise functional arrangements. The building is both public facing and a workplace shared by a variety of users with different work patterns, therefore flexibility in use, unimpeded flow between spaces, and the ability to lock down areas not in use is fundamental.
A fundamental driver was to ensure the building design, structure and servicing not only serves the buildings different users but is adaptable to the future changes in policing. Factors inherent to the management of the new facilities include the economy of staffing, shift patterns, and the convenient receipt, dispatch, distribution and handling of goods and services.
