by Sarah Topping | Jul 4, 2022 | News, Project Information
Works to our project for Sunderland City Council are progressing well for the new £13.5m Sunningdale SEN School. The project is a 4000m2 new-build school for children with severe learning difficulties and disabilities and will provide a facility that is designed and built specifically to meet their needs. The school will give 70-80 new children places for ages 2 to 18 years old and it will significantly improve the facilities they currently have. With not long to go until completion, the following is currently taking place on site: Tarmac works are beginningLandscaping works are ongoingCar parking works are progressing well The facilities include a hydrotherapy pool, trampoline room, sensory rooms, and a kitchen where everything is height adjustable due to the variety of needs of the...
by Sarah Topping | Jun 28, 2022 | News, Project Information
At the start of the year, we were appointed by Stockton Borough Council to deliver a new £7m teaching block to Egglescliffe School in Stockton-on-Tees, procured through the NEPO framework. The project is the construction of a new standalone 3,800m2 three-story secondary education facility to expand the provision for the existing Egglescliffe School. New facilities to be provided include classrooms, music rooms, IT rooms, group rooms, a dining hall and kitchen, and staff facilities. Drone footage of the steel frame Works on the project are starting to take shape, with the ground floor slab and first concrete pour currently taking place. The project has installed solar panels on site (see photo below) and in turn, this has saved them £4k a month and all the welfare cabins are now being run on solar power completely. External photo from site cabinsFirst Floor levelSolar panels You can watch the animation of how the finished school will look here –...
by Sarah Topping | Jun 23, 2022 | Awards, News, Project Information
Our project team is celebrating after being awarded highly commended in the “Project of the Year 2022” category at the Constructing Excellence Wales Awards recently. The accolade was awarded to the Queensferry Learning Campus. L-R: Sean Fenner – Kier, Martin Walsh – Kier, Simon Mara – Mara Electricals, Tim Ford – Plas Derwen, Jennie Williams – Flintshire County Council, Dan Hampson – Kier, Richard Robinson – Kier, Claire Homard – Flintshire County Council The project involved a remodelled and refurbished 3-11 primary school on the campus with a new entrance and associated grounds work including a new administrative block, hall and kitchen facilities. Outside extensive landscaping was carried out to provide open and green spaces. The scheme also included a new education building for Plas Derwen for their most vulnerable learners from 4-16 who experience difficulty accessing mainstream education and require specialist intervention for their behavioural, social and emotional challenges. The new build has a number learning and specialist learning rooms, hall and servery facilities, small group rooms, meeting and administrative facilities and external hard play areas and playing field. A new single storey community facility, Ty Calon, has also been built on the campus providing a range of community facilities including community café, studio, commercial kitchen and bar, community sports changing facilities and teaching spaces for adult and young people community learning run by Deeside Community Trust. Flintshire’s Leader and Cabinet Member for Education, Welsh Language, Culture, Councillor Ian Roberts, said: “It is a credit to all involved in this project that it has been recognised at these prestigious awards. The school modernisation was much needed and the...
by Sarah Topping | Jun 22, 2022 | News
Last week Lisa McDade, Environmental Advisor from our Scotland business joined the speaking panel at a Scape Webinar titled “Building for Net Zero : Lifecycle project delivery for the public sector” which helps project teams utilise the net-zero carbon public sector buildings standard during all the 7 RIBA stages. Lisa has a Masters in Applied Carbon Management and is very passionate about sustainability. Lisa applies her environmental knowledge to the tender and pre-construction phases alongside monitoring the construction phase if high risk. Lisa is a 14001:2015 lead auditor certified, level 2 accident & incident qualified, and an IEMA Associate with previous experience in 14001 EMS, carbon footprinting, stakeholder engagement, and environmental management (construction). During the webinar Lisa, alongside other industry-leading speakers explored the new guide to procuring and delivering net-zero new build and refurbishment projects through SCAPE Scotland’s Life Cycle solution. Click here to read more about the webinar If you would like to listen to the recorded session, click...
by Sarah Topping | Jun 21, 2022 | Awards, News
Following our success at last year’s North West Regional Construction Awards, we are delighted to confirm that we have been shortlisted in 7 categories across our Construction, Property, and Highways businesses. These are: 🏆 Contractor of the Year – Kier Construction 🏆 Client of the Year – Knowsley Council 🏆 People Development – Kier Construction 🏆 Liverpool Sub-Regional Project of the Year – Shakespeare North Playhouse 🏆 Manchester Sub-Regional Project of the Year – 11 York Street 🏆 Health, Safety & Wellbeing Award – Windy Harbour, Kier Highways 🏆 Net Zero – Windy Harbour, Kier Highways This year is the sixteenth North West Regional Construction Awards and it is the most significant celebration of best practice and best value in the North West and the only event of its kind that connects every single discipline of construction working towards a sustainable built...
