Day Care Building - Hertford
Elliott Off-Site Building Solutions was awarded the project to design and build a new multi purpose day centre at Ware Road, Hertford under the Mace / Hertfordshire County Council Framework. The centre represents a centralised facility for up to 100 people from in and around Ware and Hertford and caters for adults with physical disabilities and those with needs associated with ageing.
The materials used in the construction reflect the location. The sculptured render reflects the adjacent Art Deco houses, whilst the use of timber is appropriate, given the wooded nature of the site. The building structure was constructed using a hybrid system of steel frame, concrete floors and Elliott Off-Site’s structural timber wall panel system.
Internally the building provides a kitchen, dining and lounge facility together with treatment rooms, disabled bathrooms, meeting rooms, life skills area and staff facilities.
The building envelope extends into its surroundings to create landscaped areas with different characteristics. These include a sensory walled garden with water features and a woodland wildlife area within the poplar
tree cluster.
Key features include electrically operated roof lights, condensing boilers feeding underfloor heating, comfort cooling, fully automatic sprinkler system and automatic PIR lighting.
The building was completed in October 2007 after a 44 week construction programme. This very successful project wasnominated for awards with SCALA and also for the Hertfordshire Association of Architects.
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