Flood Precast were awarded the design, manufacture, delivery and installation of Flood Super Wideslab® precast concrete flooring elements to Samworth Church Academy, Mansfield, Nottingham which embraced all of the cutting edge innovation and technical excellence that is required to meet the life cycle and maintenance efficiency of modern buildings.
All this is required while delivering to strict budget and programme restraints and a finished product which conforms to the highest quality standards.
The contract for the building of this Academy was won by Kier Construction. The contract for Kier was the design and build of a new academy on the site of an existing academy, which remained live throughout the project until hand over. It was agreed by Kier at their tender stage to adapt a design of Flood Precast Flood Super Wideslab® planks with exposed concrete soffits to utilise the benefits of thermal mass. The building structure consisted of a steel frame broken into three zones with all perimeters curved. The challenges for the pre-cast were to:
- Achieve the structural requirements of the slab with no prepropping.
- Coordinate the location of slab joints between precast units within the classrooms
- Ensure a high quality finish of the soffit of the planks
- Distribution of services within the structural screed
- Facilitate the requirement of service shafts without down stand or trimmer steel
- Provide an optimum design in line with the economic requirements of the tender bid by the main contractor
A significant achievement in terms of technical excellence was borne out by awarding to Flood Precast of the Kier Group Innovation award. The technical excellence and innovation was recognised as part of their supply chain review and how the work carried out on Samworth Church Academy showed a way forward to providing clients with a structure that maximises natural ventilation by allowing large uninterrupted spans of high quality exposed concrete soffits with minimal temporary works.
Project team
- Main Contractor:Kier Construction
- Engineer:BDP Consultancy
For more information on Flood Precast Concrete Flooring contact our team at info@floodprecast.ie
Very high standard…agreed programme…design interface was excellent…exposed soffit ceilings utilising the thermal mass for comfort cooling…professional approach to achieving a first class installation…