PROJECT TITLE: New Library Building. Ref: 6911-Education

PROJECT DETAILS:

Location: West Somerset Community College
Minehead, Somerset.

Client: Somerset County Council.

Procurement Method: Negotiated Tenders based upon Contractors
Bills of Quantities, Drawings and JCT Contract.

Commencement Date: 5 January 2004

Completion Date: 24 August 2004

Contract Value: £250K - £500K

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT:

The project is to construct the substructure and superstructure of a rectangular shaped library and classroom block connected to the existing adjoining building. The building has a total internal floor area of 445m5 and accommodates three number classrooms together with ancillary offices and storage rooms. The new building was constructed over live services and drainage. The construction is of a traditional nature with the use of strip foundations, solid ground floors and beam and block suspended first floors, brick faced / timber cavity walls with aluminium windows and external doors, timber flat and pitched roofs clad in either single ply covering or interlocking tiles. The building included high pressure hot water and heating, electrical installation with supplies taken from the existing adjoining building and an education fit out.

CONSULTANT SERVICES PROVIDED:

The Post-Contract Services carried out on this project involved the continual cost monitoring and reporting on the project, the agreeing and certifying of monthly valuations, dealing with Contractual matters and the preparation and agreeing of the final account.