A view from the main staircase across the first floor. Eventually internal partitioning will obscure this view, but we can see the insulation inplace across the entire floor, prior to the Under floor heating pipes being laid.

Ryan Meadows and Joe Stenson, P+HS’s very own little and large, visit site.  This was Joe’s first site visit with P+HS, where as Ryan was dragged out to answer for some of his handy work.

Wk 26 of the Contract and work is being completed to the flat roofs and purlins, prior to the kingspan panels arrival on site. The facing brick is nearly complete, with blockwork continuing from first floor to eaves, this will provide a substrate for the timber cladding to the first floor.

The formwork for the central flat roof at Royston. to the centre are the upstands which will eventually support the Xtralite triple skin barrel vault skylights.

The formwork for the cast in-situ hopper room at Royston, which will gravity feed the biomass boiler on the ground floor below. The fuel are pellets which are pumped up from ground level from the delivery truck via a 300mm dia pipe that runs up the outside of the building

One Royston site workers innovative approach to reduce his and his mates Carbon footprint by car sharing.

Court Barton, Plot 2

Due for handover at the begining of  December. Each plot is fairly bespoke and each have had there own unique detailing requirements. One of , but not the only feature of this house is the 3m long one piece glass balustrade shown below. In this case the steel fixing plates have been concealed instead of expressed. The Main two storey screen shown in the image above is a collapsable wall system and can open along it’s entire length on to the garden area.

Wk 13 the Steel frame is nearly complete. The positioning and some aspects of the design have had to be carried over from the original planning application prior to our envolvment. The Rotunda shown below here will eventually house the IT learning facilities as a part of the main Library.

Work continues on the Royston Lifelong learning centre near Barnsley. Week 10 and the steel work is progressing on site. Shown are the front two entrance bays.

A First! site visit for both Ryan Meadows and Adil Jeraal. Ryan has recently completed his year out and is now back at university three days a week studying hard to be become an Architect. Adil has joined us for a weeks work experiance from college. He is considering becoming an Architect and I don’t believe we’ve put him off yet.

Royston Life Long Learning centre. A two storey steel frame building, sited within Royston Civic Campus.  The scheme will provide library, CIS, café, sessional day care and adult learning facilities, as well as hireable meeting spaces for the local community.

The project will be run under a JCT Standard form of contract 2005, P+HS are acting as contract administrators for the project. The main contractor  is ISG Totty and the Client is Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.  The contract value is £1.6m and has been partially funded by European Union Objective 1 and Yorkshire Forward. The scheme is due for completion in May 2008.

  The four new builds at Court Barton are near to completion. Photographs below show Plot 1 external and internal views and external view of Plot 4.  All are due for completion by the middle of November.