Week 38 of 60. On programe for completion on 1st August 2008.
All brickwork and windows are now complete. Base coat of Sto render has been applied. Cladding approx 70% complete. Still awaiting arrival of fascias and parapet flashings.
1st fix plumbing and electrics progressing internally. Internal partitions approx 50% complete.
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.
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.
Work has started on the new Washington Primary Care Centre. This is the second PCC that P+HS have designed for Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust. The piles and pile caps are complete and erection of the steel frame is underway [approx 50% complete]. The concrete first and second floors are programmed to commence on 1st October. This photograph was taken from the raised pedestrian walkway at the north-west corner of the site.
The project is being delivered under the P21 procurement method.
Contractor/PSCP: Laing O’Rourke.
Contract Value: £9.2m [GMP]
Completion Date: August 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.
This Photograph was taken on site on Tuesday the 3rd of July 2007.
The project is coming along well with the majority of glazing and louvres now in place.
The rainscreen cladding is due to be fixed week commencing 23.07.07.
