Heating Ensures School Extension is Finished on Time

Project Overview

Lilliput Church of England Infant School is situated in Lilliput, a district of Poole, Dorset, and currently has 360 pupils. A new three-classroom extension was recently added to the main school building, with work starting at the beginning of the school summer holiday in 2016. During the construction work, the children were taught in a temporary modular building.

Challenge

The main phase of the project was completed during the Easter holiday of 2017. The Bishop of Sherborne blessed the new building on 8th May 2017. For a while, though, it had looked as though completion of the project would be delayed: a leaky roof had created indoor site conditions described as “like a pond".

Solution

An initial assessment of the problem was carried out over the phone using drawings that were supplied from the site. A solution was quickly designed, and two 120 kW heaters were dispatched to the site overnight. The heaters were installed the next morning and quickly dried out the site, allowing the project to be completed on time.

“The heaters were very easy to use and worked wonders. The building dried out in no time and allowed us to get back to work, enabling us to complete the project to time. We couldn’t have done it without them.

RVT regularly visited us on site whilst the heaters were in use to make sure we were happy with the performance and we were comfortable knowing that they were always at the end of the phone if we had a problem.

I have recommended RVT before and will do so again”. - Site Manager, main contractor