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Offsite & Modular Building School of the future unveiled by The McAvoy Group Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy is a beacon of inspiration and innovation The opening of Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy illustrates a new era in educational infrastructure and stands as a beacon of inspirational innovation. Equipped from top to bottom, inside and out, with the zenith in cutting-edge school design elements, Lynch Hill is an extraordinary and motivational new learning environment for children. Standing as a ‘best in class’ model of the school of the future, Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy marked a record-breaking building project by offsite modular specialists The McAvoy Group who completed the school 17 weeks ahead of schedule – despite a threemonth delay. The £20m school, situated at the town’s Stoke Road, is understood to be one of the UK’s largest ever post-primary modular schools. Spanning a massive 8750m2 the building accommodates 1140 pupils across a 2.87 hectares site. The project was commissioned by The Learning Alliance Academy Trust, with the contract being awarded through the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework for Modular Building Systems which is funded through the Education Funding Agency (EFA). The completed three-story secondary school development is a truly state-of-the-art educational campus and comprises a fourcourt sports hall, multi-use games area, playing fields, car parking areas and extensive landscaping. Like other major developments completed by The McAvoy Group, the new Lynch Hill Academy offers compelling evidence of how offsite construction has truly established itself as the smarter choice for education projects, large and small. As principal contractor McAvoy was responsible for leading the project from feasibility approval, outline and design, through to planning and delivery of the challenging and complex scheme. McAvoy engaged with the client, planners and local authority at the earliest possible opportunity to agree a design plan, giving each stakeholder a comprehensive input into the blueprints. Each link in the supply chain was carefully overseen by McAvoy to avoid potentially costly chinks with the collaborative liaison between the stakeholders succeeding in keeping the manufacturing facility abreast of any changes. Regular meetings were also held with Slough Council, which was in the process of constructing a football stadium concurrent with the Lynch Hill scheme, to agree the movements of heavy construction vehicles from both developments which shared a single and tight access point. School head, Jane Everton, identified early engagement as a key attraction of offsite as it enabled her to specify the optimal fixtures, fittings and equipment bearing the school’s bright and inspiring brand colours to create the most educationally conducive environment for children. The McAvoy Group’s Executive Chair, Orla Corr said: “We pride ourselves in our ability to take the stress, uncertainty and project concerns off our clients’ shoulders. Our unique approach which incorporates partnership, collaboration and engagement underpinned by unparalleled sectoral experience has been a key element in the building of our reputation as acknowledged experts in offsite modular construction throughout the UK and Ireland. The scale of Lynch Hill marks a new era in McAvoy’s offsite capability with the project requiring us to produce our largest-ever modules to facilitate one of the largest-ever modular schools every to be made in the UK.” The McAvoy Group became the first company of its kind to achieve BRE BIM Level 2 accreditation. It is now well on its way to Level 3 certification. It was also the first offsite modular company to become involved in the Offsite Management School, an industry-wide leadership group aimed at helping suppliers meet the challenges of the Government’s 2025 Industrial Strategy which incorporates a range of targets for the construction sector. School head Jane Everton said: “The joy of the development was having the opportunity to be involved with the design of the school, and to make it perfectly fit our purpose.” www.mcavoygroup.com 40 Summer 2O17 <strong>4150</strong>
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