Bilston C of E Primary School

Following a successful tender process, Murray & Willis were instructed by Wolverhampton City Council to construct a new build extension of 6000 sq. ft. to Bilston C of E Primary School and then to fit-out the completed shell.

The first phase of the project was the enabling works, which included our ‘site set up’ of six containers, office, welfare facilities and a meeting room for site meetings.

The site set up was planned to work around existing ‘mine shafts’, therefore we needed to construct a temporary road for site access. This was constructed using ‘hardcore’ which meant the school still had access to the playing fields.

We also needed to supply power, water, gas, electric and drainage to the new extension and we formed  temporary parking for staff during the construction of a new twelve space car park.

We then commenced the groundworks for the extension, which comprised of a ‘power floated’ concrete raft slab, then we erected a steel frame structure and the brick work followed to complete the shell, which included feature brick work to all windows and doorways. The ‘SIKA’ liquid flat roof was then applied, including a number of roof lights. We then erected permanent ‘anti-climb’ fencing to the perimeter, so that the children are kept safe at all times when the building opened.

Once the shell was erected and complete, we turned our attention to the internal fit-out of the new space, which comprised of the creation of four new classrooms, girl’s and boy’s toilets, consulting room and caretaker’s storeroom. All walls were constructed from metal stud partitions which were all fully plastered.