Caldicot Comprehensive School
Key facts & challenges
- Short Description
- The new Caldicot Comprehensive School in Monmoutshire provides an advanced learning environment for pupils as well as the local community. The innovative bow-tie shaped school designed by BDP architects concentrated on creating comfortable environments which both support learning and minimise the estate's long-term running costs. Large, naturally lit spaces are inteneded to enhance pupil wellbeing while reducing energy consumption. Temperature optimisation was a key consideration with materials specified to minimise heat loss and support the school's self-cooling technology. The drylining specification played akey role in meeting these aims. Siniat collaborated closely with BDP, Interserve and Subcontractor Richard Kemble Contracts to provide tste-of-the-art products to delivera low carbon, durable teaching environment with excellent acoustics to ehmnce learning.
- Sector
- School
- Project Value
- £36.5m
- Contractor
- Interserve
- Subcontractor
- Richard Kemble Contracts
- shortInstallDescription
- “Siniat materials have a reputation for being robust and durable, but they’re also made with easy installation in mind. Their products have great technical qualities and are also sympathetic to the fast-paced world of modern construction.”
- installQuoteAuthor
- John Kemble Richard Kemble Contracts
- impactQuote
- “We specify Siniat materials for a wide variety of projects because of their robustness and performance. Siniat’s technical support team is also excellent and very responsive to queries, giving us full confidence in the knowledge behind the products”
- impactQuoteAuthor
- Tim Humphries, Associate Architect BDP
Project description
The new Caldicot Comprehensive School in Monmoutshire provides an advanced learning environment for pupils as well as the local community.
The innovative bow-tie shaped school designed by BDP architects concentrated on creating comfortable environments which both support learning and minimise the estate's long-term running costs. Large, naturally lit spaces are inteneded to enhance pupil wellbeing while reducing energy consumption. Temperature optimisation was a key consideration with materials specified to minimise heat loss and support the school's self-cooling technology.
The drylining specification played akey role in meeting these aims. Siniat collaborated closely with BDP, Interserve and Subcontractor Richard Kemble Contracts to provide tste-of-the-art products to delivera low carbon, durable teaching environment with excellent acoustics to ehmnce learning.
