Chase High School, Westcliff-on-Sea

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Client: Davis Construction

Sector: Education

Scope: SFS | Drylining | Suspended Ceilings | MF Ceilings | Insulation | Tape & Joint | Plastering

Location: Chase High School, Prittlewell Chase, Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, SS0 0RT

Project overview

Chase High School is a mixed, mainstream secondary school at Prittlewell Chase in Westcliff-on-Sea, near Southend, Essex. It educates more than 1,000 students aged 11 to 18 from over 40 countries.

GA Interiors Ltd worked for main contractor Davis Construction (South-East) Ltd on the school’s building works, under separate subcontracts for the drylining and suspended ceiling packages. The ceiling subcontract was placed in February 2020, under a JCT 2016 Design and Build main contract.

Our scope

GA Interiors delivered the interior packages across the ground, first and second floors:

• SFS and drylining
• 600 x 600mm Rockfon Arctic ceiling tiles in an exposed metal grid
• 25mm high performance acoustic insulation laid over the ceilings to the ground and first floors
• Casoline MF ceilings with two layers of 15mm Gyproc FireLine board and 50mm insulation to the under-stair cupboards
• Boarded, taped and jointed finish to the underside of both concrete staircases
• Cem-Rock board to the plant room ceiling, with joints sealed ready for decoration
• Tape and joint and plastering

Challenges and solutions

• Working on a live school site: deliveries were limited to set windows between school drop-off and pick-up times, so materials were booked in advance and unloaded and distributed by our own team.
• Tight ceiling programme: the suspended ceilings were programmed at five days per floor over three floors, with a supervisor on site at all times and a team of six to eight operatives.

Outcome

The packages were completed for Davis Construction and the retention was released at the end of the defects period.