INSPIRE ACADEMY, CHATHAM, ME5 0LB
REFURBISHMENT & ALTERATIONS TO SCHOOL BUILDING
• Education & Skills Funding Agency
• Project Manager: Turner & Townsend
• Contract: Inspire Academy – FS0267 incorporating the conditions of the JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2011 Editio with Contractor’s Design
• Value £820,000.00
• Summer 2017
Brief:
The works comprised of a summer refurbishment of the Southern and Eastern areas of the existing school building. The works result from a greater masterplan extension and refurbishment of the school.
Works focused on alterations and modernising of five existing classrooms creating New Science, Food Technology, Art/Vocation and Design & Technology Areas. Also involved were alterations to circulation spaces with a new fire escape and refurbished ancillary spaces. Services in these areas are all upgraded to comply with current standards.
INSPIRE ACADEMY, CHATHAM, ME5 0LB
REFURBISHMENT & ALTERATIONS TO SCHOOL BUILDING
• Key Construction Materials & Installations:
▪ Bricks to match existing masonry construction.
▪ Fan coil units for improved heating and cooling in refurbished areas.
▪ Gyptone Quattro 41 acoustic ceiling installed in refurbished areas.
▪ Insulation installed to roof and walls to improve thermal performance of refurbished spaces.
▪ Fully refurbished and modernised electrical systems to areas affected by works.
▪ Installed new specialist furniture in Science, Food Technology, Art/vocation and Design Technology Classrooms.
▪ New window systems to refurbished areas.
▪ New robust steel doors and frames.
▪ New timber cladding above windows to tie in with future projects.
