Case Study - Wirral Metropolitan College, 2006

Dateline 2006

Site
Twelve Quays Campus

Client
Wirral Metropolitan College

Objective
The College was awarded the Centre of Vocation Excellence in Construction Skills and needed to simulate a suitable real working environment in order to deliver the programme. Given that training is required all year round the solution would be required to give protection from adverse weather as well as providing a spacious structure in which a qualitative learning experience could be guaranteed to the students. The product was required to give a comfortable and user friendly environment, and be sufficiently high to facilitate the use of real construction techniques on a true scale whilst supporting classrooms within the same large multi functional space.

Timescale
The new building had to be completed within 8 weeks from order to meet the immovable deadlines of term time.

Choice of Construction
The dynamic nature of the college campus means that relocatability of the structure is a distinct possibility at some time in the future – as well as being robust enough to cope with the rigours of a construction site within it, relocatability was a highly desirable feature.

Results
15m x 20m x 8.5m structure installed and handed over on time and on budget. Masonry, bricklaying and other construction based courses are now run in an “all weather” environment.

Client Endorsement
From the first enquiry to handover, Useful Structures provided a professional prompt and reliable service that delivered the set parameters of the objective. The solution was both high in quality and cost effectiveness, a pre-requisite in both education and other business arenas.
Jared Allen
Head of Facilities, Wirral Metropolitan College.