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Project Report

HIGH LITTLETON PRIMARY SCHOOL

Client: Banes Property Services
Main Contractor: Ken Biggs Contractors Ltd
Requirements 

Our brief was to provide a new main entrance to the School with a large reception area complete with new office, parents’ room and a link corridor to eliminate the need to walk through working classrooms to access other parts of the School.

Construction

A key requirement of this project was to maintaining the segregation of the children from the construction site. This was managed carefully throughout the project.

As the main entrance of the School was within the construction site a temporary office was supplied and sited in the main car park for the School’s use.
Once the foundations had been cast small concrete block dwarf walls were formed ready to take the new block and beam floor.  The external walls were then built with Bath stone dressings cast to match the existing. 

The area around the main door was infilled with Purbeck natural stone which was quarried and transported to site from Dorset.  The panels either side of the stone work were finished using KRend, a self coloured render matching the Bath stone. 

The main part of the roof was formed with purpose made roof trusses cut back into the existing roof of the School with a flat roof area to each side.  A new aluminium entrance door was fitted along with windows set in new stone surrounds and a glass roof was installed over the link corridor to complete the outer shell of the new extension.

Internal works then commenced with mechanical and electrical services being installed as required. The internal walls were plastered and new skirtings and doors fitted to match the existing school.  A new Ash reception desk with sliding glass doors was manufactured within our Joinery Shop and fixed into place. Decorations to the extension followed to the School’s requirements.

Externally, an access ramp with new handrails was constructed and all tarmac surfaces were made good.  The final stage of the project was to relocate the schools clock. This is part of the schools history and dates back to 1909. The clock was fully reconditioned by a specialist during the contract period and repositioned on the front of the new extension. A feature was then made of the working mechanism by fixing it within a new purpose made cabinet at the front of the new reception area.
The project was completed to a high standard of workmanship and to the satisfaction of our client.


Value: £160,450