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New Pre Prep Building for The Hawthorns School

Works have just completed on site to provide a new state of the art Pre-Prep Building at The Hawthorns School in Bletchingley, Surrey.

The project provided 850m2 of new accommodation and was built upon the site of the former kitchen garden, to the main Grade II* Listed Jacobean Manor House.

Designed by Squires and Brown, the shape of the building is unique, predominantly spread across two floors but with a single storey egg-shaped wing, covered with an ecological roof garden, which can be accessed from the second floor of the main building. The building also includes many other environmentally friendly features, including air source heat pumps, natural stack ventilation chimneys, and large rooflights and sunpipes to provide plenty of natural daylight into the building. In addition, there is also a building management system that constantly monitors and displays the building’s energy usage.

Works commenced in September 2010, and completed on budget in August 2011 in time for the start of the Autumn Term. This was quite an achievement given the project to endured one of the worst winters on record, at a critical point in the construction programme, where the temperature failed to rise above freezing point for almost three weeks.

Synergy has provided Quantity Surveying and CDM-Coordinator services on the project.