HMP Elmley - Project Awarded
PCE Ltd is delighted to announce it has been selected as superstructure and façade specialist for the delivery of the expansion of HMP Elmley. HMP Elmley is a category B local prison, located in Kent.
Appointed by main contractor, Kier, on behalf of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), PCE will continue its contribution to the Government’s £4 billion New Prison Programme (NPP). The expansion of HMP Elmley designed by architects Pick Everard, forms part of the Accelerated Houseblock Delivery Programme. It will see PCE manufacture and assemble a new fully electric T60 houseblock, expanding the existing prisons capacity by 240 cells.
Having been appointed superstructure and façade specialists for HMP Five Wells, HMP Fosse Way, and most recently, HMP Millsike, PCE has proven value and expertise in supporting the expansion of the UK prison estate. The company’s HybriDfMA Secure Prison system has become a leading build system for the delivery of high quality, highly secure, modern UK prisons. Across the NPP, PCE has to date delivered over 5,000 prison places, comprised of over 41,500 offsite, precision engineered components and over 179,000 integrated M&E, security, and utility sub-elements.
Designed to comply with the latest edition of the MoJ design guide and National Offender Management Service (NOMS), PCE’s Secure Prison is a platform DfMA solution. With standardisation and repeatability at its core, Secure Prison provides a proven solution for scalable prison construction, delivered safely at speed. Standardised methodologies and PCE’s ‘smart connectivity’ enables a team of just 15 high skilled, multidisciplined PCE operatives to deliver the T60 houseblock.
PCE’s comprehensive system build solution seamlessly integrates M&E, security, and utility features into the PCE components, as they are manufactured offsite. This creates a holistic, all-encompassing structural solution that reduces waste up to 90%, creating a more sustainable solution that aligns with the MoJ’s net zero carbon ambitions.
PCE SYSTEM BENEFITS:
- 50% reduction in construction programme
- 90% reduction in waste
- 80% reduction in on-site personnel
- 80% reduction in site deliveries
- Security vetted workforce
- Optimized strategies saving up to 40% embodied carbon against ICE benchmark
- Current embodied carbon savings of 195 tonnes per houseblock
PCE’s platform delivery is enhanced through use of secure, cutting-edge digital systems. Having been used to great success on HMP Millsike, PCE will again utilise Ynomia, an innovative digital track and trace system. Consolidating a dispersed supply chain in one place enables the project team to diligently track and coordinate every single component, regardless of supplier or location. The system’s interactive 3D digital twin enables comprehensive traceability for all components, whilst enabling the freedom to install with much greater efficiency, allowing any unit within a component type to be installed in any relevant location effortlessly – ideal for platform DfMA delivery.
Through employing state-of the-art digital systems, PCE can ensure an diligent, transparent, and predictable solution, enabling MoJ projects to be delivered with greater efficiency and accuracy.
