School Case Study
King Edward VI Grammar School – Art Block
This million pound building project at King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford for a new Art Block was secured in open tender and involved BREEAM conditions and a restricted working area in the centre of a busy secondary school.
Working alongside architects John Finch Partnership, A W Hardy & Co Limited will begin a two-storey addition to the secondary school. The contract period began in October 2013 and was completed the following July, providing purpose-built art-rooms and teaching facilities attached to the existing school building.
The scheme utilised a steel-frame with concrete floors, incorporating glulam structural posts with exposed glulam rafters internally. The external envelope comprised a brick cavity walls with mainly slate pitched roofs; internally there is separate staircase access to the first floor, although connecting corridors to the existing school building at both floor levels were also built-into the scheme.
Formerly an old court-yard area, the new Art Block development incorporated a major face-lift to the surrounding area with some 700-plus square metres of external paving being installed between the new and existing buildings including steps, ramps and bollard lighting to complete the planned replacement scheme.
Key Details
Contract Value: £1,000,000
Contract Period: 9 months
Client: The King Edward VIth Grammar School, Chelmsford
Design Team: John Finch Partnership (architects); Fleuty & Robinson (Quantity Surveyors)

Site ID reference 75134
School Case Studies
Here is a selection of school projects we have been involved in.
Lee Chapel Junior School
St Helens School
Sacred Heart Primary School
King Edward VI Grammar School
Hamstel Primary School
Hamstel Infant School
Milton Hall School
Hamstel Junior School
Lee Chapel Primary School
St Christopher’s School
Lancaster School
Rettendon Nursery
Southend High School
Coopers Coburn School
King Edward VI Grammar School
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