The A-Plant modular building provides six-bed dormitories for the boys, who are aged from 8-13 years old with four or five in each year group. The new block has shower and washroom facilities, a TV and Games room and a kitchen/dining area. It also has an office and bedroom for the Matron and a further en-suite bedroom for the resident tutor.
Mary Stannard, Bursar at St Edmunds School, said: “We were granted planning permission for only two years, so the flexibility and costeffectiveness of the modular accommodation we have hired from A-Plant has been the ideal solution.”
The A-Plant modular building was delivered to site just two months after planning permission was granted. It is sited at the back of the school grounds next to a property recently renovated by the school to house the Choir’s Housemaster and his family.
“A-Plant was superb in the way it dealt with our urgent need for the new dormitory. The company met our requirements calmly and even helped to make changes to the groundworks for the building when it was installed,” said Mary Stannard.
The St Edmund’s order was co-ordinated by A-Plant’s Neale Charlton- Jones, UK National Manager – Modular Accommodation. He said: “Modular build has the speed and flexibility to meet situations like this and has become a well-accepted construction method in the educational sector.”
The new dormitory at St Edmunds is typical of the products that can be supplied by A-Plant Modular Accommodation, ranging from relocatable temporary accommodation through to permanent single and multi-storey construction capable of accepting all forms of conventional cladding and roofing treatments. The more complex projects are purpose-designed to meet the exact specification and architectural detailing of each client. Whether single or multi-storey, these buildings can be combined with both factory-applied claddings and site-installed brickwork. Similarly, either flat or pitched roofs can be accommodated.
Neale Charlton-Jones added: “As well as the cost benefits of its speed and greatly reduced site wastage, modular accommodation offers other advantages such as relocatability, a key feature for government organisations.”
