HEADLINES
2 Live education facilities worked on simultaneously
24 Weeks to change the building’s use from hairdressing classrooms to motor maintenance workshops
Praised by client and contractor for our consideration working in a live environment
| Project Title | Leeds City College Printworks: Building 5 |
| Client | Leeds City College |
| Contractor | Sewell Group |
| Location | Leeds |
| Duration | 24 weeks |
| Value | £650,000 |
OVERVIEW
This complete design and build M&E retrofit project presented us with many different challenges, most notably working on two schemes (Building 1 and Building 5) simultaneously and having to meet both deadlines as part of a rolling programme of works carried out by the main contractor, the Sewell Group for Leeds City College.
Far from a standard project, we also transformed the use and purpose of the building.
CHALLENGE
This required a high level of liaison with the main contractor. We overlapped the schemes to complete our work in B1 by the end of the May holiday period and delivered the most invasive works in B5 before students returned to study.
SOLUTION
This required a major reconfiguration of M&E services as former hairdressing classrooms were replaced with systems required to operate a motor maintenance workshop consisting of hydraulic vehicle maintenance equipment; welding bays; industrial spray booths; and, mechanical and computerised engineering machinery.
To accommodate such items of plant, a full overhaul of the M&E services had to be carried out, changing commercial attire to a more robust and industrial serviced layout that included a new ductwork system, heating, compressed air, air conditioning, BMS, lighting and adaptive power supplies.
RESULTS
Both the Sewell Group and Leeds City College commented on the consideration shown by G&H staff onsite given it was a live environment, the work was very invasive and there were two pressing deadlines.
