Greenheart Learning Partnership - The Orchards Primary Academy
Classroom Block – 5 Modular bays, 18m x 9.6m – 2 classrooms, lobby, toilet's & storeroom
Classroom Block – 5 Modular bays, 18m x 9.6m – 2 classrooms, lobby, toilet's & storeroom
The Orchards Primary Academy is a school within The Greenheart Learning Partnership who have ten primary schools within the partnership and 2500 young pupils.
The Partnership is keen to develop all their children into confident and creative individuals, successful lifelong learners, and active and informed members of the community. Their curriculum builds upon the National Curriculum but also on best practice from around the world. Their mission is to nurture their children with a sense of Being, Becoming and Belonging.
The partnership contacted GCS Cabins with an enquiry for two new classrooms to move students from an old area of the school which was slowly becoming unfit for purpose. The buildings were to house year 1 & year 2 students. The Partnership were keen to outsource all the complicated but necessary relationships involved with a modular project and were delighted to hear that we offer a full turn-key service taking full responsibility for everything including groundworks, utilities service and connections, bespoke building design & manufacture, plus planning application through to approval, along with building regulations to point of sign off, delivery & installation. A true, peace of mind service, handled professionally so our clients don’t have to worry about a thing.
The Partnership had a few key issues to resolve - Access was very tight both logistically and particularly in time-frame with a strict limitation in limiting delivery, installation and construction within school holidays and weekends. Planning permission also posed a few restrictions to overcome and the old building needed removal. Finally the design of the new building called for an aesthetically pleasing match to the existing school.
The extensive experience GCS have gained over the years enabled them to coordinate manufacture and delivery during school holidays when the children were well away from the site. Specially selected logistics partners tackled the tight access without too much trouble and our design team took care of the planning permission and aesthetic building appearance. All in all, a hassle-free solution for all the above delivered on time and on budget, overseen by a single point of contact, dedicated project manager.
The client now has a bright, new space built in accordance with building regulations, absolutely fit for purpose, built in a safe working environment using DBS checked staff. Which took the project from point of order, through planning approval, manufacturing, groundworks, building regs sign off, installed & delivered within 12 weeks start to finish.
