The Social Hub is a hybrid hospitality brand, offering spaces that combine student living, hotel accommodation, extended stay rooms, co-working facilities, meeting and event spaces, restaurants, bars and gyms, all under one community, and one roof.
Soben were appointed by TSH to provide pre-and post-contract cost control services including producing tender and contractual documents, tender appraisals, value engineering, post-contract cost control (change management), interim valuations, cost reporting and agreeing on the final account. This complex and prestigious development will be the first of its kind for The Social Hub in the UK. The TSH model will be the first of further urban regeneration projects not just in Glasgow, but across the UK.
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For every £1 invested in us to date, we can demonstrate a 10x return on that investment
through added value, cost savings or cost avoidance for our clients.
Expertise
Our experienced consultants have worked at the sharp end of contracting, commercially managing complex projects.
Access
We only hire the best to deliver world-class cost, time and quality outcomes. All of our Managers have previous senior leadership experience within large contracting organisations.
Delivering on our promises
The Social Hub (TSH) is a unique hybrid combination of co-living and co-working in the heart of Glasgow City Centre. Once complete, TSH will be Glasgow’s largest hotel, consisting of 493 rooms across 9 floors. There will be a wealth of amenities including coworking spaces, restaurant, coffee bar, meeting & events rooms and a rooftop bar.
After unprecedented cost increases due to inflation, Soben took over the financial costings, driving the project through an intensive value engineering process. As part of this, Soben introduced a new main contractor to deliver the project and achieve far better value for money.
Soben produced a robust report outlining the cause of the increase to provisional sums, categorising the values between inflation, design development and risk materialisation. Doing this provided the client with transparency and a better understanding of the cost increases. From this, solutions were deployed to mitigate the impact and manage the values to fulfil the project.
Where culture meets quality
We understand the complexity of major infrastructure projects, the need to manage expectations of multiple stakeholders. Our infrastructure expertise is focused on delivering efficient, cost effective, and future-proofed results.
Soben offers something different – a combination of the best consultancy practices, with real-life hands-on commercial experience in delivering major construction projects.
During the project, Soben went above and beyond on a number of occasions to meet key deadlines which have required longer hours and multiple tasks to be prioritised. We would highly recommend Soben to other Clients as they offer an all-round first-class commercial service.
Confidential Multinational Energy Company, EMEA
Soben always provide clear and timely communication, with the ability to communicate with all levels of the company including package level, senior management and external stakeholders. They also work well in a team but can be trusted to work alone with minimal supervision to progress and conclude certain tasks.
Confidential Multinational Energy Company, EMEA
Soben are extremely competent, professional and have an exemplary work ethic. They are able to provide a full range of skills and are always diligent, adaptable and reliable when change occurs on high-value and complex projects.
Confidential Multinational Energy Company, EMEA
Soben has been a resilient cost management consultant during the project whereby we had to deal with cost challenges due to big impacts on global level (Covid, and global supply chain disruptions).
Sjoerd vanPopering, Head of Development, The Social Hub
I am incredibly happy with the service from Soben, particularly the flexibility on what has been a particularly challenging project to work on. Communication and responses to further requests for information, clarifications and additional tasks have been exceptional.
Confidential Hyper-scale Data Centre Client, EMEA
Please accept our congratulations for delivering a snag-free project. This is a first for our program and demonstrates a truly outstanding effort from the Soben team. Both projects faced considerable challenges, and we thank you for your dedication to overcoming those during the delivery. We appreciate your collaboration and open communication with our team.
Confidential Hyper-scale Data Centre Client, EMEA
This was not an easy project to work, but I’m so happy with the work produced by the Soben team.
Confidential Global infrastructure Client, EMEA
Working with Soben was a pleasure. Their attention to detail was spot on and they covered all areas of the job and gave me confidence that the measures were accurate when we sat down to review everything at the end. In terms of delivery, they met our ambitious targets, and they were laid out in a user-friendly manner and required very little alteration.
Daniel Shaw, Skanska, EMEA
The overall quality and communication from the Soben were very good, and outstanding issues were resolved promptly.
Bernie Mbirimi, Kier Construction, EMEA
Soben were responsive to project needs, they understood the task required, provided a proposal, timeline, and delivery.
