Wednesday 09 September 2009
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Foundations for the New Sixth Form

The main contractor has worked incredibly hard during the school’s summer holiday period and has completed the car park works in time for all school coaches, staff and visitor vehicles to enter the site on the first day of the school’s autumn term.





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Temporary barriers were erected to allow the coaches to drop off students safely and whilst the students were in school the permanent barriers were being core drilled into the tarmac.








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The foundations for the new sixth form building are well under way. You will have noticed pink boarding lining the sides of the foundations. This product is designed to alleviate the effects of ground movement on ground floor slabs and foundations. The boarding is a honeycomb of interlocking expanded polystyrene sections which are designed to collapse at pre-determined load and minimises the loads transmitted to the concrete foundations.

If you look carefully at the foundations you will see the bolts being cast into the foundations ready for the steel frame to be erected.


Over the next few weeks you will see:

• Completion of the barriers to enable school coaches to park alongside the main entrance to the school.
• Completion of the foundations to the upper block of the new sixth form building.
• Excavation for the foundations for the lower block of the new sixth form building.
• Phase 1 steels arriving on site.