HMYOI Cookham Wood HMYOI Cookham Wood comprises a new build three-storey houseblock to house remand and convicted juveniles, together with an education facility, which is part of the Rochester cluster of prisons. The new houseblock comprises two legs, each divided into three wings providing small prisoner communities of 30 prisoners per wing, a total of 179 single cells. The ‘hub’ accommodates the control room, support and communal facilities as well as staff and circulation areas. Cookham Wood was the first adopter ‘pilot’ on which Building Information Modelling (BIM) had been utilised through the tender and was fully employed at contract stage. HMYOI Cookham Wood was also the first ‘pilot’ Government project to use a Project Bank Account, to ensure efficiency of payments through to the s

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