Hollingworth BSF Bulletin 02/02/2010

February 2, 2010

What’s been going on

Works have continued to the new access road to our site compound on the lower sports pitch. This week the road will be surfaced with tarmac at the tie in with Water Lane/Charles Lane and at the points where vehicles will turn off the road to access our compound and the construction site on the school grounds.

Works to complete our site compound are also progressing. The topsoil has been removed to expose the firm clay below. This has been covered with a geo-textile membrane which has semi-permeable properties allowing water to soak through to the ground below but not allowing it to percolate back up through the membrane. This prevents the stone and surfacing we put on top becoming saturated and washing the fine particles within the surface layers away.

Earthworks are progressing to the site of your new classrooms outside food technology. All the topsoil has been stripped and we are now forming the stone mats that will support the load of the cranes used to erect the temporary cabins.

The alteration works within the main school building are progressing well and the access routes through room 25 and the staff conference room will be close to completion by the end of the week.

Works will start to create the route through e-learning later this week.

It may interest you to know that many of our workers have taken up your caterers’ offer of meals. They are very impressed at both the quality and value provided.

Coming soon

  • Foundations to the new classrooms.

  • Temporary accommodation

    This is manufacture continues off site at our contractor’s workshop.

  • Service diversions

    Power supplies will be installed from the existing school substation to the site of the new accommodation and services within the building will be adapted to accommodate the changes we are making. This will all ensure that power, heating, IT and alarms are maintained to the same standards as in the existing school.

  • Drainage

    As last weeks report the main foul drain connection for the new school joins the existing drain network at a man hole just outside the Youth centre. Work will start on making this connection this weekend.

Looking a little further ahead foundations to the new school will start in March and steelwork to form the structural skeleton of the new school will start in April.

We will be placing 1500 cubic metres of concrete to the building foundations (not including slabs) and erecting 700 tonnes of steelwork.

Regards,
John England – Carillion Project Manager