appointments & news; building for education special report Complete service helps achieve value engineered solution in hygiene
A unique service is helping local education providers achieve optimum effectiveness in value engineering for accessible toilet provision. The Department for Education has updated its Building Bulletin 103 Area Guidelines for Mainstream Schools, which, for the first time, lays down a minimum size and required equipment for a school hygiene room. However, few building services companies fully appreciate the breadth of equipment and associated ancillaries required, or have the capability and ability to supply, install and commission the raft of equipment involved. This puts strain on timescales and budgets. Clos-o-Mat is the only disabled toilet provider than can, in-house, provide a value engineered solution. It can, through one source, provide design advice, supply, installation, project management and on-going service/maintenance across all the equipment needed. “Because the room is a toilet, there is a misconception that any building services company can fit it. But it contains more than a WC; it has highly specialised equipment such as a hoist, a big changing bench, it needs electricity as well as a water supply, it needs load-bearing walls… if not understood, these cause significant delays and cost to the project,” says Clos-o-Mat hygiene rooms/Changing Places project manager Kelvin Grimes.
0161 969 1199
www.clos-o-mat.com Hauraton drainage channels used at Penarth Learning Community School
Penarth Learning Community School, Cardiff, South Wales, comprises a mainstream comprehensive school with 1,280 places, together with a Special Educational Needs (SEN) school, catering for 205 pupils with a wide spectrum of learning needs including those with learning and physical difficulties and those on the autism spectrum. Together with a learning facility, there is also a 1,500m² residential home, allowing 19 pupils to stay over at any one time to provide respite to their families. With the site being quite flat and the new buildings surrounded by block paved areas and asphalted surfaces, it was essential rainwater is drained effectively. Two Hauraton systems were chosen to drain surface water: RECYFIX® PRO fitted with FIBRETEC® C250, HEELSAFE 9mm slot gratings for the asphalted yards and car park and RECYFIX® STANDARD SLOTTED CHANNELS fitted with symmetrical galvanised steel covers. Once installed this system provides an unobtrusive, narrow line of slots in the paved surfaces. Steve Wiseman, Hauraton’s project engineer commented: “By using two types of channel the overall appearance of the block pavements and asphalted surfaces was enhanced with the drainage requirement fully met”.
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www.drainage-projects.co.uk Bauder Strikes Gold once again with Investors in People
Flat roofing specialists Bauder has once again been awarded the prestigious Investors in People (IiP) Gold status, which recognises high performing organisations that put its people at the heart of the company’s success. This is the second time that the company, based in Ipswich, has been awarded the highest accreditation of Gold, an accolade that is awarded to only 7 per cent of applicants each year; which is particularly impressive considering over a third of the UK’s workforce used IiP this year. Family-owned company Bauder, who deliver flat roof, green roof and photovoltaic solutions, possess a workforce of over 130 employees located throughout the UK and Ireland; however they are all frequently brought together to participate in many employee engagement and personal development initiatives. Earlier this year, the company also achieved, for the third time, a place in the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Small Companies To Work For, together with a 3 star status accreditation for outstanding workplace engagement. Commenting on the success Angeline Barnes, HR manager stated: “We truly believe our people are our greatest asset. The accolades provide us with a framework to benchmark and measure our practices and people strategies to ensure we continue to develop, improve and ultimately preserve our inherent cultural ethos.”
01473 257671
www.bauder.co.uk
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Door closer assures safer schools
Powermatic controlled, concealed door closers, from Samuel Heath, deliver a host of benefits to the education sector, meeting all relevant fire perform- ance and accessibility requirements. Being totally invisible when the door is closed and having few parts on show, Powermatic is less likely to be vandalised,
thereby reducing maintenance costs and reducing the risk of a fire door being ren- dered ineffective by a damaged door closer. Concealment also helps to reduce the opportunity for self-harm, something that at least one local authority is believed to have recognised by switching to Powermatic. These factors make Powermatic an ideal choice for new build, refurbishment and improvement projects.
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