CLIENT: The Ranges - Bicester Motion
LOCATION: Bicester, Oxfordshire
ROLE: Project Management, Employer's Agent, Quantity Surveyor
COMPLETION: August 2025
Added Value
Throughout delivery, IKS has provided proactive leadership, ensuring the project remained commercially viable and programme-driven despite evolving requirements.
Our contribution includes:
Design Management
• Coordinated intensive multidisciplinary design to secure planning
approval to a compressed timescale
• Developed a flexible shell specification to align with an evolving
brief and strict budget controls
Procurement & Legal Coordination
• Led procurement strategy and provided critical input into contract
and funding agreements to protect commercial interests
Change Control & Delivery Leadership
• Managed ongoing tenant-led design evolution with robust change governance
• Maintained programme integrity through continuous risk management,
coordination, and stakeholder communication
• Secured supplementary planning approvals without delay to the main programme
KEY CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS
Mobility Reimagined
Early tenant engagement prompted a major shift in direction. A prospective occupier required a significantly larger, integrated facility to support complex operations across workshops, offices, R&D environments, and high-bay storage.
In response:
• Three units were consolidated into a single 90,000 ft² purpose-designed building
• An accelerated programme was established to secure revised planning within just four months, including full design development
This milestone was achieved successfully, enabling the building to progress through construction and reach Practical Completion in August 2025.
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The Ranges forms a key component of the wider Bicester Motion masterplan. Identified as the most commercially viable phase to initiate development, the project set the foundations for the evolving mobility and technology hub.
IKS were appointed to lead the project from the outset, managing design, procurement, commercial strategy, and delivery. With an existing planning consent already in place, our first step was to assemble the wider consultant team and undertake a strategic review of the approved scheme. Working closely with agents and future occupiers, we reshaped the layout into a more flexible and commercially aligned proposal while remaining within the original planning parameters.
A revised planning consent was secured for seven contemporary buildings, designed for subdivision and providing c.210,000 ft² of adaptable commercial space.