City Legacy is delighted to have beaten off 70 other bids for this prestigious project, with Davis Langdon Partner Andy Outram commenting: 

“I am particularly pleased that we have been able to lead and manage City Legacy successfully through this process.  The project has forged strong bonds and working relationships between the consortium members and the respective teams at GCC and the organising Committee for the Commonwealth Games.  These good foundations will lead to achieving a successful Athletes Village and ultimately one of the most significant housing-based regeneration schemes in the UK”

This is Scotland’s most exciting project of the new millennium and the Commonwealth Games represents a unique opportunity to showcase Glasgow as a vibrant, contemporary international city.

The City Legacy consortium has been formed by several companies and is made up of: 

• Project, Cost and Bid Management, Davis Langdon
• Developers and contractors, CCG, Cruden, Mactaggart & Mickel, and The Malcolm Group
• Masterplanners and Design Champions, RMJM
• Engineers, WSP Consulting
• Community Benefit and Town Planning advice, Turley Associates
• Legal advisors, Burness LLP
• Utilities infrastructure and sustainability, Scottish and Southern Energy
• Property Development advice,  JLL

Paul Stallan, RMJM Architects European Design Director commented:

“From the early stages of the Commonwealth Games 2014 development Davis Langdon ensured that a positive team culture contributed to our eventual bid success on this important transformational project.  For both Davis Langdon and RMJM this is an important win on both an international stage but also at a very local level. Glasgow’s investment in the 2014 Games will provide a lasting legacy that will positively change the City’s demographics and regeneration effort in the East End. I look forward to working closely with the Davis Langdon team moving forward”

Throughout the bidding process Davis Langdon – managed from our Glasgow office - has been Bid Manager; leading on the overall project management, risk profiling, financial modelling and overall co-ordination of the team and the submissions. Going forward Davis Langdon will continue to be at the centre of the team as SPV Manager, which will draw on multiple service lines including project, program cost management, and CDM Coordinator services.

This £300m project is significant in both a national and international context as Glasgow City Council is seeking a solution which is an exemplar in urban regeneration and built to the highest environmental standards.

The Village will provide accommodation for approximately 6,500 athletes and their teams plus officials for the duration of the Games. After the games are complete this accommodation will provide a new sustainable community made up of private homes, 300 social rented units all built to BRE EcoHomes excellent rating plus a 120 bed care home for the elderly to be built to BREEAM excellent standard.

City Legacy’s solution sought to exceed the already high expectations of the Council by:

• Providing 70% low rise family housing
• Meeting the environmental standards including a 60% reduction in CO2 emissions from current standards achieved through innovative design, the potential provision of a distributed energy system supplied by natural or biomediums could mean as much as a 99% reduction plus a unique SUDS solution
• The creation of over 600 jobs
• The creation of a new Athletes Village that will set new a new standard for future Games

City Legacy’s bid was endorsed by Alison Sheppard Olympic and Commonwealth Games medallist in swimming.  Alison commented:

“I can see even at this stage that City Legacy’s designs are going to provide a ‘Home from Home’ for athletes and officials. I think that their Games Village design will provide a quality of experience better than any other Games I have attended.”