Fairwater Learning Campus
Project Overview
Client: BESL
Project Name: Fairwater Learning Campus
Location: Cardiff
Sector: Education
Project Value: £8.62M
Engineer/Architect: ARUP/Austin-Smith-Lord
Project Period: 32 weeks
Fairwater Campus is a large development under the Cardiff education sustainable communities learning programme. The scheme includes the construction of three new build schools for Cantonian High, Riverbank and Woodlands High Schools into a single site. Theres also a health & well-being leisure centre that will be utilised by the public as well as the students.
The campus is significantly increasing the capacity for all threes schools as well as adding a Specialist Resource Base for 30 learners with an Autism Spectrum Condition.
Key work carried out
Reinforced pile caps & ground beams.
Reinforced retaining walls ranging from 1.5 to 6m.
Install of below ground harvesting tank.
Storm and Foul drainage systems.
Install of water proofing membranes.
Reinforced concrete floor slabs.
Car park works.
External works.
Churngold successfully managed
Existing Services.
High pressure watermain.
Bad ground conditions.