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Project Description

The school will be rebuilt as part of the Lewisham grouped schools PFI project in a live environment and will accommodate 1,200 pupils.

Existing School

Crofton Secondary school is an existing school, which has a leisure centre (now unused by the general public) as part of its complex. The school is typically 1970’s prefabricated concrete cladding panels and in a state of disrepair.

Proposed new school

The school (10,500m2) is designed to greatly enhance the learning and teaching environment from the classrooms, through the overall layout of the building, to making best use of the external areas. The new school facilities shall provide a greater amenity for the pupils, staff and the community.

  • A glazed “street” at the heart of the site will link the various teaching blocks and create a generously naturally lit focal area for school life.
  • New two-storey teaching blocks will be big enough to accommodate an increase to eight forms in each year (or an additional 300 pupils in the school)
  • The new school building will feature an attractive main entrance designed to cope with school activities and encourage community usage
  • The City Learning Centre shall be located on the site providing greater amenity to the school and accessibility for the wider community use.

External facades

The treatment of the coloured facades reinforces the clarity of the plan and ease circulation with discrete elements which represent a different function within the school.The facades take on the feel of a tapestry and the building will be sitting as a sculpture in the park.

The railway to the East of the site creates a high noise issue which the concrete construction minimises to the inside space. This not only improves the internal environment but adds to the articulation of the facades.

Construction phases

The construction of the works is carried out in 2 main phases and include the following:

Phase 1 - July 2006 to December 2007
Demolitions of the art block and admin building surrounding the sports and leisure hall
Erection of temporary classrooms to accommodate the areas that have been demolished
Hoard off the construction area, from the proposed school area
Erect contractor facilities
Construction and completion of blocks 1 to 4

Phase 2 - December 2007 to September 2008
Move the existing school and temporary classrooms into the new building
Remove the temporary accommodation from site
Demolish the remaining part of the existing school
Landscape and final completion

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29/03/2007

“Great results from the first Considerate Constructors Schemes (CCS) Audit”

Bouygues UK recently received great results from the first Considerate Constructors Schemes (CCS) Audit

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09/01/2007

Successful opening of Childeric school at Mornington Decanting Centre

Following an enormous effort by Bouygues UK and the Childeric teaching staff the school got up and running on time in temporary facilities between Christmas and the New Year.

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22/12/2006

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Bouygues UK, Ecovert FM, HSBC Infrastructure and all their partners wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year 2007!

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04/12/2006

Bouygues UK's commitment reinforced with the Considerate Contractor Scheme

Bouygues UK’s Lewisham PFI project has been successfully registered with the Considerate Contractor Scheme and is proud to reinforce its commitment to carry out works in a clean and safe manner whilst minimising disruption. Relevant signage and posters have been received and are already displayed on the site hoardings.

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04/12/2006

Partnership charters signed for Crofton and Forest Hill Schools

In order to continue with this spirit and ensure everyone involved adhere to it, the Bouygues UK Project Director for Lewisham PFI schools set up the framework for a “Partnership Charter” to pave the way forward for the continued interface between the authorities representative, the head teacher, premises officers and Bouygues UK senior site managers.

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04/12/2006

Impressive progress at Greenvale Secondary School

Following her recent visit to the new school located in Waters road, Ann Sharp, Associate Head teacher, was delighted to see the Greenvale Special Needs School growing so rapidly.

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10/11/2006

BOUYGUES UK enters into a strategic alliance with Lewisham College

To help develop the young builders of the future, Richard Bridgeford, Project Director for the Schools PFI Project, has been in discussions with John Stagg, the Head of The School of Construction and Technical Services at Lewisham College, to offer the Lewisham construction sites, as a practical training facility for their building students.

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08/11/2006

Follow-up visit of the Council of Lewisham to Barking Schools PFI

The Barking Schools contract, in operation by Ecovert FM since completion in the summer of 2005 played host earlier in October to a group of headteachers and staff from the Lewisham Schools PFI project.

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26/10/2006

Safer Use of Tower Cranes - informative article

Tower cranes are a vital element in the construction process. There are around 15,000 cranes in the UK and at any time around a 1000 are in use. Tower cranes are often in use on construction sites in urban areas and collapses/failures are a very rare occurrence. There is legislation, standards, codes of practice in place, covering the design, manufacture and erection of tower cranes globally around the world today. Stringent and regular test regimes have been developed over many years to ensure the safe operation of tower cranes on construction sites. The Bouygues Group have an in-house Plant and Equipment subsidiary based France called “GIE” which owns and maintains all their own tower cranes for internal use only. Only the very highest standards are observed with these cranes resulting in a well maintained and safe fleet operational on all Bouygues construction sites world wide. Formal records of all certifications and regular tests are well documented, on all Bouygues site.

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08/10/2006

Students in temporary classrooms

New term started on a new note for all students as they came back to Forest hill and Crofton Schools. They experienced their new environment and settled in their temporary classrooms while works are under way.

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08/09/2006

Works progress at Crofton School by the Head teacher

Quality and Standards form the flag post for our theme this academic year 'Raising the Bar'. Bouygues have complemented the theme with their impressive and rigorous start to the rebuilding programme of Crofton School.

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30/08/2006

Forest Hill: Head-teacher comments on progress of works

"An unbelievable amount of work has already taken place and the Bouygues team has delivered exactly what they promised".

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03/08/2006

Bouygues UK and Ecovert FM have reached Financial Close on two new education PFI projects

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