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18
Jul 2017

CIF Appeal Success

Munday + Cramer have achieved further success for Academy clients today within the 2017/8 CIF round. The announcement of the successful CIF appeal applications across the UK increased M+C’s haul by a further six projects. With just 75 successful applicants within the CIF appeal process; this reinforces the high success levels M+C consistently achieves within the Condition Improvement Fund. The successful CIF appeals provide an additional £2.6m of funding, for the six academies located across Essex, Thurrock and Kent. This brings Munday + Cramer’s total haul for Condition Improvement Fund work to £22.6M in 2017/8. This means that M+C secured […]

CIF Appeal Process Success
1
Jun 2017

Fresh talent joins Munday + Cramer

To support the practice’s continued growth as well as the major recent CIF successes, Munday + Cramer has again added to its growing team with three new appointments. We wish all of our new colleagues the best of luck with their new careers at Munday + Cramer. Karen Lilley – Practice Manager Karen Lilley joins Munday + Cramer as Practice Manager; a new role designed to support the continued fast-track growth of the business. Karen joins from the regional office of a National building contractor; having taken responsibility for quality management and business management systems. With additional experience in HR, Karen brings […]

8
May 2017

House Price Index – May 2017

For the second consecutive month, the annual house price growth in the UK remained at 3.8%, the same level reported in March. The Halifax House Price Index today identified a slowdown in the market; further confirmed by the first quarterly decline in over four years. In the three months to April, prices were 0.2% below those of the previous quarter. This is the first quarterly decline since November 2012. On a month-by-month basis, house prices fell by 0.1%, with the average cost of a property now £219,649. Supply The number of new properties coming on to the market continues to pose […]

House price decrease in Halifax House Price Index
4
Apr 2017

Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) – 2017 Successes

Munday + Cramer has again seen extraordinary growth in work secured under the Condition Improvement Fund from the EFA. For the fourth successive year, the Essex building surveying and architectural practice has outpaced the market. Projects with a total value exceeding £20.0M have been secured; representing a 63% increased in workload secured compared to 2016. The Condition Improvement Fund is organised by the Education Funding Agency annually. The fund is competed for by academy and free schools across the UK, to support condition-related projects. Over 3800 bid applications were made in the most recent round for the available £466.0M. Projects that […]

Munday + Cramer achieved huge success in the EFA's Condition Improvement Fund for Academies for the fourth successive year securing over £20.0M in funding
8
Mar 2017

M+C bags a brace at Chelmer Valley

Munday + Cramer have secured a pair of design schemes at Chelmer Valley High School for the coming year. These projects continue the Broomfield school’s long relationship with the Essex architectural and building surveying practice. Firstly, M+C will design a new bespoke canopy to provide an outdoor dining area of some 70m2. The outdoor space will provide additional space for students during break and lunchtime. Thus, timeliness and speed of service will be improved for the busy kitchen. The second scheme comprises a more complex project. M+C will undertake a feasibility study and preliminary designs for a new dedicated pastoral centre […]

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7
Feb 2017

UK Property and Housing Market Review

The UK property market has again today been given a clean bill of health, despite the doom-mongers. According to the Halifax House Price Index, prices have risen by 5.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Against the last quarter, they have risen 2.4%. Month-on-month, a slow-down has been seen of -0.9%. Today the price of the average UK house is £220,260. General consensus of the UK property market is one of underlying strength. The UK has undergone major upheaval in the past twelve months; Stamp Duty changes, Brexit, the global economy but growth is still on an upward curve. […]

UK Property Market Review
30
Jan 2017

More than breaking ground… A new swimming pool!

Works at Green Street Green Primary School in Orpington, Kent recently begun to provide a new swimming pool, library and music room. Funded via the EFA‘s Condition Improvement Fund (CIF), the scheme will provide dedicated, modern facilities in keeping with the rest of the school. The existing swimming pool facilities were in poor condition, not fit for purpose and requiring an urgent upgrade. The adjacent music room and library were housed in a dilapidated demountable building. This scheme will provide a single building, designed to accommodate the split levels posed by the site. A new music room and library will be provided […]

Green Street Green Swimming Pool
17
Jan 2017

New Year, new starters!

As part of Munday + Cramer’s continued growth, the New Year sees several new faces within the business. New starters Chris Coomber and Amee Fox have joined the business to further enhance the property management offering, supporting residential and commercial properties throughout Essex. Chris Coomber Chris is a qualified property manager and associate member of RICS. He joins Munday + Cramer to bring additional experience across residential and commercial property management in both the private and public sector. Chris’s role will serve to develop our provision to clients in this field, as well as progress our supply chain management activities […]

15
Dec 2016

Tinsel-tastic Christmas tree decorations

Joining in the festive spirit, Munday + Cramer recently held a competition for primary schools to show off their decorated Christmas trees in exchange for book tokens. Surveying took a different, fun turn as the team enjoyed looking at all of the schools’ efforts. A range of schools sent us photos of their festively decorated trees, and will all be receiving tokens soon to help bolster their libraries! Let us know what you think of them… [huge_it_slider id=”1″]

Munday + Cramer Christmas Greetings
22
Sep 2016

Professional services for Southend shop-fit

Munday + Cramer are providing a range of professional services to support a major shop-fit scheme in Southend’s busy High Street. Working for Cube Developments, M+C are providing surveying and structural services to facilitate the shop-fit for a leading international brand. Requiring expansive retail areas, a number of key structural procedures are required, including: Moving of stair from retail area to back office Levelling of floors throughout retail area Raising ceiling heights Creation of new steel structure to enable removal of existing structural columns The work is currently on-site.