Works on Site: Week 6

Progress on site this week:

Wyre Forest School:

 Bulk excavations to reduced level are almost complete.
 Below ground drainage begins to be laid
 Reduce levels continuing to formation/excavations to form retaining wall base, south of school.
 Structural fill excavated from retaining wall is being taken to the artificial grass pitch to make up levels.

 Landscape fill is ongoing terrace landscape area.

Weekly Boarding Unit

 Setting out and excavations for gabion cage foundation to Sprinkler Tank area has commenced.

 Foul drainage outdside of the foot print of the building is now in place.

 Building of drainage manholes has begun.

Science Block

 Structural fill is now complete.

 Sub base stone cap layer laid levelled and compacted to underside of floor slab make up.

 Reduce dig to rear paved area is in progress.

Manhole template being laid out for Weekly Boarding Unit




Structural fill being laid for the Science Block

 

Works on Site: Week 5

Progress on site this week:

Artificial Grass Pitch: Excavations for the base nearing completion (looking towards Baxter College)



Wyre Forest School: excavation adjacent the retaining wall by Campus Square



Wekly Boarding Unit: installing the first drainage runs

Works on Site: Week 4

Excavation works for the Science Block

What's been happening on site this week?
Weekly Boarding Unit: Ground preparation continues.
Wyre Forest School: – Reduced levels to part of the site and vegetation strip/cart away in progress.
Science Block: Continue topsoil and landscape cut and store – brick, concrete fill off-site/cart away
 Generally: Administrative offices/compound now established – satellite offices in place. Much activity to all areas of site – cart away generally progressing well.

Sod Cutting Ceremony - Newspaper report

Left to right: Councillor John Campion, Tony Shaw, of Speller Metcalfe Malvern, Councillor Marcus Hart, and front, , Liz Eyre, cabinet member with responsibility for children and families.

You can now read the report in the Kidderminster Shuttle of the sod-cutting ceremony to mark the beginning of work on the new campus by following the link below:

Work begins on £24M Campus (Kidderminster Shuttle)

Works on site: week 3

What has been happening on site this week?

- Warm and dry weather - good progress.

Weekly Boarding: area prepared for pile rig

Wyre Forest School: haul road established, benning stripping turf from building footprint.

Science block: Site strip and reducing levels, grubbing out old concrete bases.

Generally: Preparing ground and foundation pads for site offices.

Works on site: week 2

What has been happening on site this week?

• Preparing for the compaction of the ground for the Weekly Boarding Unit
• Taking up the existing paving slabs, and setting up level points for the Science Block
• Establish a haul road for the Wyre Forest School building.
• Temporary drainage for the site cabins

A 'sod cutting' ceremony took place on Thursday with local Councillors, representatives of the schools, and officers from Children's Services and Property Services at Worcestershire County Council.

Preparing the site this week

The sod-cutting ceremony on 18 July 2013

Works start on site: week one

 

Tree protection with scaffold poles



What's been happening on site this week?

Speller Metcalfe Ltd began work on site this week with their preparations for the major components of the project. This included forming a  haulage road through the site leading from the entrance to the location of the science block, which is to be built for the joint use of Baxter College and Wyre Forest School.

Also this week scaffolding has been erected as protection around trees on the site, and trial pits excavated prior to levelling the site and preparing foundations.

A newsletter has been delivered to residents living nearest the site. 


Haul road being constructed from recycled crushed material