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FOREMANS EXPAND FACILITIES AT ‘OUTSTANDING’ ACADEMY
school, an ofsteD outstanding academy in reading. the scheme to expand specialist teaching facilities at the school follows the success of an earlier Foremans contract in 2012 to construct a sixth form centre. the latest two-storey building was required to improve specialist teaching facilities for pupils, in particular the classrooms for mathematics which had been split over two separate parts of the school. the project also had to be complete in time for the start of the new academic year as it was replacing a number of temporary classrooms. the use of a refurbished modular building allowed the scheme to be constructed during school holidays and reduced the programme by around 70 per cent compared to traditional site-based building methods. the new facilities were built by Foremans from 44 recycled steel modules which were fully refurbished and reconfigured to create eight maths classrooms, a science laboratory, office accommodation, beverage
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oremans relocatable building systems, the uK’s largest supplier of refurbished Portakabin buildings, has handed over its second project on time and on budget at the Piggott
point, disabled access lift, Pe changing rooms, and a fitness suite which the community can use outside of school hours. the modules were delivered to site around 70 per cent complete with wall linings, partitions, m&e services, doors, and windows already in place. the finished building was handed over after just six weeks on site. externally, the teaching block was designed to replicate the sixth form centre in line with school’s specific requirements. it has a blue and white colour scheme with the Piggott school emblem featured on one elevation, timber cladding, brise soleil and a canopy over the entrance. Foremans also installed a folding wall between two classrooms which has created a more flexible teaching environment that can be opened out for examinations or group activities. Foremans has extensive experience in providing high quality accommodation to primary and secondary schools, further education and sixth form colleges, and universities. it offers a wide variety of modular building solutions to help meet the increasing and urgent demand for school places, from interim classrooms for short-term use to fully refurbished teaching blocks and extensions to existing school buildings. the refurbishment and recycling of relocatable buildings is one of the most environmentally friendly methods of construction – helping to reduce carbon emissions, waste sent to landfill, and improving a building’s carbon footprint, with no compromise on quality.
www.foremansbuildings.info email:
info@foremansbuildings.co.uk tel: 01964 544344.
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THE S-IMPLER WAY TO INSULATE SOLID WALL HOMES Working in collaboration
with bre, carillion energy services and other key partners, the northern ireland Housing executive (niHe) is set to launch s-imPler, a new research and demonstration project designed to help the refurbishment sector achieve effective and economical retrofit of insulation in solid wall homes. supported by the uK’s innovation agency, the technology strategy board, the s-imPler Project, “solid Wall innovative insulation and monitoring Processes using lean energy efficient retrofit”, aims to achieve a 60% reduction in monitored energy costs of 1950s solid wall homes. the three year project will demonstrate how retrofit work can be carried out with less disruption and completed at least 10% faster compared to current solutions, with no
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impact on quality and safety. s-imPler will focus on the specific type of solid walls that form the 1950s ‘no-fines’ homes of which there are some 5,000 in northern ireland and 300,000 in the uK. initially being trialled on seven niHe homes, the outcomes of the project will have relevance for many of the uK’s 6.9m solid wall homes. s-imPler will integrate several innovations into a single attractive commercial proposition: an inventive surveying tool, led by Vrm technology, providing dwelling specific accurate details of labour and materials requirements across multiple green measures; a building information modelling tool, led by the university of salford, to allow clients to model different cost and benefit options; a whole house monitoring system, led by tensor systems, to assess real energy performance.
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in addition more detailed analysis of the fabric
performance of the retrofitted homes will be conducted by leeds metropolitan university. in the coming months the project will seek suppliers and installers of energy efficiency products to be retrofitted into the seven homes. if you would like further information on this, please contact Jack brayshaw;
brayshawj@bre.co.uk
THE FUTURE VALUE OF FM educating business, demonstrating economic benefit, linking facilities management (Fm) to productivity and responding to future trends and consumer behaviour were just some of the areas debated by a panel of industry leaders at the latest british institute of Facilities management (biFm) Fm leaders Forum. the ‘Defining the future value of Fm’ forum asked
whether it is possible to define Fm by outputs, and if a defined ‘value of Fm’ helps strengthen the understanding of Fm across organisations. the ‘Defining the future value of Fm’ paper with key points and outcomes of this Fm leaders Forum has been published and is available to the Fm community for download: • biFm members can access the paper at
www.bifm.org.uk/fmlf
• non-biFm members can view the paper via www.
bifm.org.uk/futureFM Previous biFm leaders
Forums include ‘starting at stage zero: engaging facilities managers in the construction process’ ‘benchmarking: effective performance management for Fm’, ‘bim and Fm: bridging the gap for success’ and ‘Fm Procurement: Who holds the power?’ which can be accessed at
www.bifm.org.uk/fmlf
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