Interim school buildings
Birmingham City Council has worked with Portakabin to meet a need for additional primary school places in the city, providing 12 high quality interim buildings to accommodate an additional 330 children in nine schools.
Demographic changes in Birmingham have led to a 21 per cent increase in births between 2001 and 2008, and it has been predicted there could be a shortage of up to 3,000 reception places between now and 2020.
To meet this year’s increased intake, Portakabin, working with main contractors Wates Construction, provided around 1,000sqm of primary school teaching accommodation on nine different sites. Each school’s facilities were handed over on time, on budget and to a tight timescale – just 14 weeks from receipt of order, ready for the start of the new academic year.
The Head Teacher of Chad Vale School, Robin Haselgrove said, “We all absolutely love our new Portakabin building. The
children really like the spaciousness and don’t have to spend time moving tables to make room for drama lessons. The classroom is light and bright – we would be more than happy to keep it!” The interim school buildings at eight of the schools, which include both single and double classroom blocks, will be on hire for 12 months until the permanent facilities are expanded at each school. Each classroom arrived on site during the summer holidays complete with infant toilets, flooring, lighting, heating, partitions, power points, sinks for wet play areas, and access ramps or steps.
Portakabin has successfully delivered 15 projects for Birmingham City Council over the last three years – a range of buildings for housing, education and parks departments.
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information@portakabin.co.uk Tel: 0845 401 0010.
Off-site construction goes back in time with a ‘retro’ supermarket
which was
completed in just seven weeks, from receipt of order to handover at the Goodwood Circuit in Sussex.
Features of the retro store
included a stone- effect fascia with four white mosaic columns
reminiscent of a 1960s precinct,
Off-site construction specialist and Portakabin subsidiary, Yorkon, has completed one of its most challenging and unusual projects for Tesco – a specially- designed 1960s-style supermarket for this year’s Goodwood Revival, the UK’s biggest historic motor racing event. A typical 1960s street scene was created for the event, which included a period car park, bus depot and a fully trading Tesco supermarket. Inside, visitors to the Revival were able to buy some of their favourite products from the era, some complete with heritage packaging. Using concepts produced by retail design consultants CDW & Partners and working closely with Tesco, Yorkon successfully re-created a store from 1966
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anodised aluminium glazing, an ice cream hatch with a canvas canopy, period fridges, signage from the era, a pebbledash-type finish to the end and rear walls, and separate entry and exit doors. The 1,700sqft supermarket comprised six steel-framed modules which were manufactured off site at the Yorkon production centre in York and pre-fitted out with partitions, back-of-house facilities, electrics, chequerboard vinyl tile flooring, and other themed internal finishes, before being delivered to Goodwood and craned into position in just one day.
The retro store will be re-used for the Goodwood Revival for the next two years.
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Foremans Relocatable Building Systems, the UK’s largest supplier of recycled and refurbished modular buildings, has introduced a new cladding system which has significant aesthetic and performance benefits – and will now be supplied on all buildings as standard and at no extra cost.
New cladding system as standard
The new composite cladding system is fixed to the outside of the steel-framed modules creating a double skin that increases both thermal and acoustic performance, and provides a more robust and durable finish than traditional paint. It is fast to install and unlike painting, completion is not subject to the weather. It can also be pre-installed off site to minimise disruption, and can be used to re-clad existing Foremans buildings if required.
The cladding is available in a choice of colours for design flexibility and to allow the modular accommodation to complement existing buildings. Commenting on the new design feature, Kevin Jones, Managing Director of Foremans, said, “We can still provide customers with painted modules, but we felt the new cladding system significantly enhances the appearance of a modular building as well as offering a more thermally efficient and robust solution than paint. We are also happy to work with clients and architects to accommodate other architectural cladding systems and features to further enhance the buildings.” Each recycled modular building is fully refurbished off site by Foremans, with new windows, wall linings, partitions, M&E services, doors and flooring, creating high quality accommodation for a range of permanent and interim uses, including classrooms, wards, and offices. Pre-owned modular buildings are a highly cost-effective alternative to new build – an important benefit where budgets are restricted.
The recycling and refurbishment of relocatable buildings is also one of the most sustainable methods of construction – helping to reduce carbon emissions, waste sent to landfill, and improving a building’s carbon footprint.
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info@foremansbuildings.co.uk Tel: 01964 544344.
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