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Buildings Refurbishment and Maintenance
Award for Yorkon
Following two visits to the Church of Wales School
site at Newbridge-on-Wye, the Considerate
Constructors monitor assessed Yorkon’s operations
in areas such as environment, site cleanliness,
safety, responsibility, respect and accountability.
Yorkon was awarded a certificate of Performance
Beyond Compliance with a final score of 86%,
exceeding UK industry averages of 77%.
The Yorkon site team was commended for its
The £1.7m contract awarded to Yorkon
excellent level of engagement with the school, high
was for the off-site construction of a new primary
standard of presentation of the site, and the
school for Powys County Council, comprising 18
decision to carry out installation of power cabling
steel-framed modules which were craned into
during school holidays to minimise disruption to
position in just three days. The scheme replaces a
teaching.
sub-standard 1960s school building with new
Other initiatives included:
facilities which include four classrooms,
• organising a painting competition for pupils to
administrative offices and a new community
mark the arrival of the building on site
crèche.
• segregation of waste for recycling
LG RexCourt
• regular communications with the school’s head
teacher
uwww.yorkon.info
sports flooring
• a monthly prize for site operatives to promote
ucontact@yorkon.co.uk
safety.
u01904 610990
combines safety and
performance
School dining double for Polysafe Wood FX
Comprised of a four-layer vinyl sheet, the
Pupils at two schools in the North East are dining
LG RexCourt from Techfloor represents the
in style and safety following the installation of
appearance of a traditional hard wood
new Polysafe Wood FX – from commercial
surface or even a solid colour design, while
flooring specialist Polyflor Ltd – in the dining halls
offering shock absorption, noise level
at Driffield School and Hessle All Saints School.
reduction, and ease of maintenance.
Installed by Hull-based flooring contractor
RexCourt is suitable for gymnasiums,
Modus Interior Designs, Polysafe Wood FX
basketball, badminton and table tennis
is especially suitable for school locations,
courts - in fact, any situation where impact
toilets and changing rooms. For improved
resistance, elasticity and hygiene are key
cleaning and maintenance in these areas,
requirements. Its impact absorption and
Polysafe Wood FX is reinforced with
ball reflection performance exceed DIN
polyurethane.
standards, with sound insulation levels of
Polysafe Wood FX complies fully with HSE and the mandatory requirement of
up to 28dbA. Rexcourt also conforms to
Guidelines, providing sustained slip resistance EN ISO 11925-2 pass.
current EN standards.
throughout its guaranteed 10-year life and The product has been independently
From the installer’s point of view, LG
achieving 36+ on the RRL Pendulum wet test tested and results demonstrate that it
RexCourt offers the major practical
(Slider 96/Four S rubber) with a surface inhibits the growth of MRSA on the flooring.
advantage of being easy to fit – the
roughness of 20 microns and above. An effective cleaning regime is,
sheeting with its incorporated fibreglass
Available in eight dramatically authentic however, the most important defence
reinforcement can be laid directly on
timber styles, Polysafe Wood FX comes in a against infection.
existing floating floors.
sensible 2m width.
Fully tested to fire safety standard EN13501-1,
uwww.polyflor.com
uwww.techfloor.co.uk
Polysafe Wood FX is certified as Class Bfl-S1,
uinfo@polyflor.com
u01254 790500
achieving the criteria EN ISO 9239-1 H110918kw/m² u0161 767 1111
IGLOOS offer a brighter choice
IGLOOS Washrooms are pleased to primary schools as the pupils
announce that they have recently are quite self conscious of using
developed their existing cubicle system urinals, therefore there was a
ranges to include a collection suitable need for urinal partitions and
for the education sector. higher cubicles. Durability can be a
These include pre-school, primary problem in secondary schools as they
and secondary and have been designed experience more bullying and
as a result of extensive research into the vandalism, this resulted in needing
common difficulties associated with more resilient materials to be
school toilets. The pre-school range can incorporated into the design. Lastly
incorporate age appropriate learning poor hygiene and ventilation was
aids such as shapes, colours, alphabet found to be a general problem across
letters, words and sums. the board.
Problems identified by IGLOOS
varied according to the age ranges.
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