Gower College Swansea REVAMP
GOWER COLLEGE SWANSEA'S GORSEINON CAMPUS is based in a pleasant residential area and accommodates more than 2000 full time students. The existing catering facility was out-of-date and they required a re-designed full commercial kitchen as well as a separate coffee shop facility. There were two phases of refurbishment work. The first phase included the installation of a brand new coffee shop located within the existing refectory.
This involved the adaption of M&E services and various associated builders work before the equipment could be installed and commissioned. The resulting facility has been branded a success by catering staff and students alike. Following this, the second phase of the works took place with part demolition and extension of the existing kitchen. After completion of extensive building work RACS proceeded with installing a fully equipped kitchen facilityand associated servery counters.
primary school in london hackney
THIS DEVELOPMENT FOR THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY is a mixed-use scheme of 89 private residential apartments bordering a two form entry primary school provision for 420 children. Named Nightingale Primary, it consists of two floors with specialist teaching spaces for ICT, art, cooking, drama and dance, indoor climbing wall and sports area. McLaren Construction worked closely with environmental specialists Max Fordham and won a Public Project Award (design) at the annual BREEAM Awards.
The scheme went on to achieve BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ recognition. Following a successful tendering process
with McLaren Construction, RACS’ in-house project management team set about producing detailed drawings of the kitchen, associated mechanical and electrical services and purpose designed ventilation system. Thoughtful forward planning together with decades of combined experience ensured this kitchen installation was another successful RACS project.
New college in hackney london
MCLAREN CONSTRUCTION'S CONTRACT, namely New Regent’s College is a replacement, state-of-the-art vocational college and pupil referral unit for primary
aged students through to Year 11 of secondary school. Hackney Council, in collaboration with McLaren Construction and the Local Education Partnership developed this as part of a mixed-use programme incorporating the sale of residential properties to help
raise capital for the school building.
The school is located at ground and first floor and the provision of 175 residential units are on the upper floors of the buildings range in height from 6 and 7 storeys. This is the second project RACS have successfully completed for McLaren Construction, the first being Nightingale Primary School also in Hackney. A fully equipped kitchen facility including an extraction system, prime cooking, refrigeration and dish-wash area was installed to meet all requirements the client had specified.
CARMARTHENSHIRE PRIMARY SCHOOL
CHILDREN IN FIVE ROADS PRIMARY IN CARMARTHEN returned to a new £4.5 million school fit for 21st century learning courtesy of Carmarthenshire County Borough Council. This state-of-the-art facility provides 120 places for pupils aged between 4 and 11 years old as well as an additional 30 nursery places. The school adopts the Local Education Authority’s Welsh Language Policy with education being taught through the medium of Welsh and English taught as a second language.
The council’s own architects designed the building and appointed TRJ Ltd as the main contractor; who in turn appointed RACS as the sub-contractor for the commercial kitchen. RACS devised the equipment specification that would meet all objectives the school authority had set out. This included servery counters, island cooking suite, food preparation areas and a dishwashing facility to ensure a top quality service can be provided to all staff and pupils.