Schools by Wates Brochure
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SCHOOLS BY Above all, it’s about people wates.co.uk/education SCHOOLS BY WATES Facts and figures about Wates Wates and Education Education and our education history As a leading UK education sector We are a main partner for the Education & Skills Funding construction partner, we pride ourselves Agency, delivering schools through their Central Government Frameworks established over a decade on our collaborative approach delivering ago. With the significant investment Wates has made in schools in partnership with our customers. developing the skills of our Central Education Team, we Our services are accessible via a large are able to provide a consistent national delivery service, number of frameworks nationwide and driving excellence and continuous improvement, and are delivered from 13 local business centres now setting the benchmark for current school delivery. 2012 – LAUNCH OF ADAPT TM throughout England and Wales, and three Our unwavering focus on our customers’ aspirations partner offices in Scotland and Ireland. and user needs enables us to transform their vision MILLION and brief into effective solutions for teaching and £900 Our strengths lie in our core knowledge and learning. Over the past 10 years, we have successfully SCHOOL PROJECTS DELIVERED understanding of current Government education delivered £900m of Government-funded school IN THE LAST 10 YEARS requirements and legislation, enabling us to design projects, responding to changing budgets and tighter and create inspirational learning environments programmes, providing new and improved learning that facilitate a real step-change in educational environments for more than 100,000 pupils. outcomes – professionally constructed, safely and 100+EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION considerately, to programme, quality and cost. DELIVERY EXPERTS At Wates, we’re passionate about 41.44AVERAGE CCS SCORE OF OUR EDUCATION generating social value wherever we PROJECTS VS INDUSTRY AVERAGE OF 36.32 work, and building great places for 100,000 young people to learn and develop is NEW/IMPROVED PUPIL PLACES IN THE LAST 10 YEARS very much a part of this. We are always EDINBURGH aware that our reputation is at stake with GLASGOW each and every project we take on, so professionalism in the way we work and quality in what we deliver is paramount. DURHAM BELFAST We’re committed to remaining at the KENDAL forefront of component-based design for schools, and we are already putting into LEEDS action some of the innovative concepts MANCHESTER NOTTINGHAM set out in our groundbreaking ‘Class of 2050’ research paper, which delved into BIRMINGHAM the changing nature of education and its CAMBRIDGE infrastructure requirements. All of which LUTON will mean schools we build can adapt CARDIFF BRISTOL LONDON to evolving needs and deliver on our BASINGSTOKE LEATHERHEAD customers’ mission for years to come.” 1961WATES BUILDS ITS FIRST SCHOOL JAMES WATES CBE, CHAIRMAN 3 SCHOOLS BY WATES Time, Cost and Quality Guaranteed Adapt™ 2.0, our approach to a standard schools design solution, is a component-based school kit, engineered, tested and updated to reflect the latest Education & Skills Funding Agency requirements to ensure compliance, without compromising on design quality or specification. Benefits of Adapt include: Bespoke schools, A kit-of-parts with Quicker designs, Since Adapt’s™ inception in common components inbuilt compliance early cost certainty 2012, Wates has achieved: It’s not about building the same A set of tools which can be configured We develop affordable designs schools over and over. It is about in an infinite number of ways to respond quickly with set budget and building distinctly different ones, to a schools’ total spatial and curriculum affordability parameters that our using a robustly tested kit-of-parts. needs. We provide the most cost- designers work to in the confidence efficient and compliant delivery and that they meet the latest standards. Over £2m has been invested in guarantee a bespoke school, every time. research and development of Adapt™ Standardised, Informed whole- Designed with Health Consistent, Better life decisions and Safety in mind A well-established ESFA compliant We know schools have limited operational Through our use of repeated products design platform ensures a quality budgets, so we help them make their FM combined with installation by trusted Over 40 ESFA schools have been product is delivered every time. budgets go further by advising preventative teams who have proven they understand successfully delivered using Adapt™ Through pre-coordinated product maintenance regimes that increase the quality, compliance, and safety selections and expert technical life expectancy of assets. This eliminates requirements, we work together effectively support, we achieve the highest level premature replacement, and improves to design and safely build excellent schools. of both workmanship and quality. performance, safety and quality conditions. Minimising energy BIM Level-2 pre-coordinated Off-site solutions, More than £500m of new schools consumption solutions guarantee quality: bespoke schools have been delivered using Adapt™ Our Adapt™ energy model enables us With 80% of building elements pre- Varying from volumetric to standardised design to balance the performance of the designed using 3D technology, Building solutions, including off-site manufactured internal environment with capital spend Information Modelling (BIM), we resolve structural insulated panel systems (SIPS), and long term energy and maintenance clashes and constructability issues with we proactively explore new technologies. costs. All models and specifications that specialist consultant and subcontractor This brings our customers improved quality In excess of 30,000 new/ relate to energy efficiency have been expertise before they arise and can be control and safety, less site congestion, improved school places have tested prior to starting detailed design. confident that designs are compliant, minimal waste, reduced programme been provided using Adapt™ pre-coordinated, and buildable as drawn. risk and less hours worked on site. 4 5 SCHOOLS BY WATES Efficiencies through Eastbury Community multi-school delivery School, Barking New build all-through school, including 2 FE primary PSBP Barking and Dagenham, and Newham Customer school with nursery and 1,800 capacity secondary Education & Skills teaching block. The new buildings feature state-of-the Wates designed and delivered the largest Funding Agency art classrooms, including modern science laboratories for secondary school curriculum. Working collaboratively single new build school project procured Building Type with the school team, we fully integrated bespoke through the ESFA’s Priority School Building New Build classroom designs, outside of standard specification, Programme (PSBP), as part of a batch of within the design programme requirements of the ESFA three schools in the London boroughs of Framework. The school was delivered ahead of programme Barking and Dagenham, and Newham. by four weeks (primary) and six weeks (secondary). This included delivery of two nurseries, two primary Architect Build th schools, three secondary schools, one 6 Form CPMG 46 Weeks – Primary centre and specialist SEN facilities, and subsequent Value 62 Weeks – Secondary demolition of existing schools across all three projects. £16.5m Spend With Local SMEs The batch benefitted from design efficiencies, £1.9m cost-effective bulk procurement of materials and GIFA resource-sharing so funds were focussed on delivering 8,703m² Apprenticeships Supported school requirements and achieving aspirations. 11 Pupil Numbers 26 Nursery 420 Primary 1,800 Secondary Eastbrook Comprehensive Little Ilford School, School, Dagenham Newham Designed and built on Metropolitan Open Land This new build four-storey 10 FE secondary school, adjacent to the existing school. Working closely with including an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Unit, the school in a live site environment, we ensured was constructed on playing fields adjacent to the construction activities and subsequent demolition of existing school. To ensure quality delivery, sample the existing school was undertaken safely with minimal classroom areas were completed early within the disruption to curriculum delivery, exam periods and main works for the school to review and assess supporting continuous external sport provision. their final requirements ahead of occupation. In addition, an extra 22% of play area was created Architect Social Enterprise Spend through an alternative building placement. Jestico & Whiles £11,734 Value Spend With Local SMEs Architect Build £40.6m £4.4m CPMG 74 weeks GIFA Apprenticeships Supported Value Apprenticeships Supported 19,283m² 13 £25m 11 Build Pupil Numbers GIFA Pupil Numbers 45 Weeks – Primary 39 Nursery 10,703m² 1,525 Secondary 80 Weeks – Secondary 630 Primary 1,800 Secondary 400 6th Form 6 7 SCHOOLS BY WATES Best practice and knowledge sharing through multi-school delivery 1 | Werneth Secondary 2 | Abingdon Primary School, Stockport School, Stockport PSBP North West 4 Customer Education & Skills Construction of a new three-storey secondary Phased construction of a new 2 FE primary Construction of four new schools built Funding Agency school on a live site. Works included the school on the existing school playing fields. concurrently and procured through Architect refurbishment of an existing sports hall, and the Phase one consisted of the construction of the ESFA’s Priority School Building Ellis Williams