John F Kennedy School’s New Eco-Friendly Facilities
John F Kennedy School had decided to provide new teaching and sports facilities to its students after winning an £8.5M government grant. The main focus of the project was to deliver the new buildings with minimum impact to the surrounding environment. Therefore an obvious choice for the envelope was a BCL timber cladding panel system using Western Red Cedar, pre-fabricated and environmentally sourced, reducing the duration of on-site works and thus minimising the overall disruption to everyday school life.
As with many projects, BCL was used in its full ‘turn-key’ capacity, designing, manufacturing and installing not only the wooden cladding panels, but all insulation, membranes and steel framing system, including full installation for the main contractor.
Architect
Perkins Ogden
Contractor
Leadbitter Construction
Size
1500 sqm
Location
Hemel Hempstead, UK
Completion
2008