• Works to the external recreational area to provide terraced hard landscaping/seating to complement the existing
• Forming a concrete base and services to accommodate a sectional pre cast concrete unit to be used as a training workshop for both residents and the community in general
• Incorporating a  demonstration/training exercise into the project train residents in basic aspects of decorating to enable them to redecorate their own flats (any surplus materials gathered will be left with the centre managers for this purpose)

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For the planned works we will need
 
Please note - there is no PQQ for this project!
 
Phase 1

• Labour to form a terrace recreation area
• Labour to do decorating
• 60nr 3x2 paving slabs
• Bedding sand for paving slabs
• 20 timbers (sleepers?) 150 x 300 mm x 3 m long
• 2 ton sharp sand
• 3 ton mixed sand and gravel
• 10 bags of cement
• 100 bricks
• 1/2 ton of building sand
• Cement mixer
• 6 scaffold boards 3m long
• 10 sq m 1200 guage polythene membrane
• Paint for internal decorations (offices plus up to 25 two room accommodation units - walls/ceilings/woodwork)
• Painting equipment of all sorts for application and cleaning up
• Protective covers for floors and furniture when painting
• An 8cu yd skip (can be placed off road)
• Wheel barrows, shovels, forks, picks to clear the area for the recreation terrace
• Pecks and paving mauls (unless we have a willing paver to lay them for us!)
• Trowels to finish the concrete base for the workshop
• Electric saws for the sleepers (one side of sloping workshop base are has to be raised to form level base surface)
• A Health & Safety person to do risk assessment of works, including Phase 2 works
• A trainer/college lecturer to draft a one day training programme for the residents in painting and decorating

Phase 2 

• Labour to dismantle 9m x 6.5m concrete panel "shed" at Robin Hood School, Birmingham
• A flat bed lorry with HiAb to lift concrete panels (approx 1800 x 450 x 65 mm) and transport from Birmingham to West Bromwich
• Labour to load and unload the shed panels
• An 8cu yd skip to take away roofing materials which will be scrapped and other rubbish when shed is removed (can be placed off road)
• Labour to erect the shed as a smaller workshop at West Bromwich - approx 6 m x 4.5 m
• Roofing materials to re-roof the new Workshop - metal roof sheets
• An electrical contractor to run mains power from boiler room to workshop distribution board (possibly includes overhead catinary for 2.5m) approx 15m max length of cable
• An electrical contractor to install a distribution board, with RCDs and incoming isolation in the workshop, wire to small power outlets around the 6m x 4.5m workshop (10 double double sockets), install adequate low energy lighting in the workshop with switching, install an external light above entrance door
• Fire exit signage
• Heavy duty carpet tiling for the 6m x 4.5m floor
• A plumber who is willing to figure out how to run some water to the workshop - and if so, a sink, drainer, tap, waste unit will also be required (external drainage could be a problem)

It all sounds too much to do as usual - but, we have never failed to do a community project (6 to date) and the local construction community has never let us down. Please don't let this be our first failure.
 
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