The Oakshaw Building is located in the Paisley Campus of West College Scotland and is used to provide workshop-based training courses for various construction trades.
The workshop area is a single storey steel framed construction with concrete floors throughout. The roof is a combination of concrete single ply membrane covered flat roofs and “north lit” pitched roofs with composite cladding and GRP roof lights. The original windows were “Crittall” single glazed units with mostly timber and metal personnel doors and metal roller shutter vehicular doors.
This project involved the window replacement and over-cladding of the workshops together with ancillary works and the reconfiguration of the north entrance area accommodation.
The building was occupied during our works and to ensure minimal disruption to teaching we used a phased approach to sequence our works around the academic timetable, using summer recess and October holidays to undertake disruptive works such as window replacements.
The site set-up design was tailored at the start due to a lack of fire escapes in the units. We changed our Heras gates from padlock to digilock, effectively using a route through our site as a fire escape. This required strict health and safety measures to mitigate any hazards to staff and students, adopting increased protection and safety signage.
Delivery and uplifting of materials were programmed to avoid busy times in the campus. Our Traffic Management Plan and Delivery Plan complied with West College Scotland’s requirements and embargo times and ensured safe segregation between our own and campus operations.
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Client
West College Scotland
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Location
Paisley
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Value
£960,000
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