Trent cladding specified for Hadley Learning Community, Telford
A Trent Concrete cladding scheme has been specified for the new PFI Hadley Learning Community project in Telford.
Trent's £1.028m contract covers reconstructed stone cladding panels cast in a dark buff concrete, with dual contrasting finishes of shallow and deep acid etched to give the units additional definition. The 3188 square metres of cladding panels are typically in modules 1.5 and 3 metres wide, varying in height from 3 to 6.9 metres. In addition, Trent is producing 356 linear metres of 300mm high fascia panels and 842 linear metres of 200mm high plinth units, both typically 4.5m long.
Precast was specified to help meet the tight programme times on this project, and to overcome shortages in traditional on-site labour such as bricklaying, whilst ensuring a high quality finish and robust material.
Trent starts on site in July on a 22 week programme, and the Learning Community is due to open in September 2006. It will comprise a primary and secondary school, a special school for children with profound and multiple learning difficulty, a children's centre and a range of community learning, sports and arts facilities.
Contractor: Interserve Project Services
Architect: Aedas
Engineer: Faber Maunsell
Notes
Trent Concrete is a specialist precast concrete contractor, producing high quality bespoke architectural cladding and structures. Providing a complete solution from detailed design development through skills-based manufacture to on-site erection, Trent Concrete partners with leading developers and specifiers to ensure that their projects gain maximum benefit from prefabrication. Trent Concrete's precast solutions make a major contribution to improved quality, certainty, sustainability, safety and efficiency in the UK construction industry today.
The company has worked on some of the most prestigious projects of recent years, including The Scottish Office and the Toyota GB Plc and Thames Water headquarters buildings, and the quality of its work is consistently recognised in the form of industry awards. Trent Concrete was founded in 1917 and is based in Nottingham, where it employs more than 160 people.
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