News | Work at the Waddesdon Archive Centre is progressing well. The first sections of the Oak Grids Shell Roof are underway. The uniquely designed roof to the reading room is constructed from furniture quality laminated oak and incorporates a stressed plywood skin from what we believe could be the world’s largest sheets sized at 12m x 3m wide!! Given the high standards of the finish and quality the entire building is being constructed under a “tented” temporary structure with accessible sliding roof panels. Works are due for completion late 2010. |  |  | Kingerlee have recently dismantled and removed one of the Jost Luffing Jib tower cranes from the Kendrew Quadrangle project at St Johns College, Oxford. The crane removal procedure required careful and close planning and liaison with the local authorities to undertake the works over a two day weekend road closure in the busy street of St Giles in historic Oxford. With the aid of a 250t mobile crane the Jost 158.6 tower crane was carefully dismantled adjacent to a four way road traffic management scheme controlling the busy Woodstock , Banbury and St Giles intersection. The final and smaller of the two tower cranes is due to be dismantled shortly and ahead of the completion phases of the project and client occupation for the 2010/2011 academic year. | | The Prince’s Foundation, in collaboration with Kingerlee, The Building Research Establishment and Natural Building Technologies are engaged on this high-profile build project that will demonstrate that the most effective route to a low energy, low carbon building is through an effective building envelope. This is to be delivered by employing natural building materials. Kingerlee are committed to being a leader in advancing environmental and sustainability standards and processes in the construction sector. The Group, through its development company, applies commercial tests to prospective projects, considering for example not just the cost during production, but the medium-term cost and real carbon footprint, leading on to a view or measure of the whole life cycle impact of each proposal. |  |  | Kingerlee have secured a new contract to construct a £2.3m lecture theatre for Queens College, Oxford. Kingerlee fought off rival bids from Linford, Beard and Benfield & Loxley. Architect, BGS have designed the building to sympathetically fit within the historic college’s setting. The project is located within the confines of a secluded listed garden set within the heart of the college campus. Piling and enabling works commence in February 2010 with the main contract due to start in June 2010. | | Kingerlee employees attended the Annual Company Briefing, which took place on Tuesday 6th October 2009. Presentations were given on the company’s progress in 2008/2009 and an overview of the company’s plans for the next three years. | | Kingerlee are installing double glazed heat soaked panels into their £35m St John’s College project in Oxford’s city centre as they near completion of the buildings external envelope. The largest of the 45mm thick glazed units were sized at 6.00m x 3.00m and weighed in at just less than 1 tonne per unit. Kingerlee’s sub-contractor Solaglas installed the units with the assistance of one of the site’s luffing jib tower cranes and a “Glass Boy” vacuum lifting set. The panels were carefully inserted between architectural pre-cast concrete panels to form the main entrance of the new Kendrew Quadrangle Building. The project is due for completion next summer. |  |  | Kingerlee third year Bench Joinery Apprentice Jack Robson was awarded the Merit Award at the Oxfordshire Construction Training Group Apprentice of the Year Awards at a ceremony held on Thurs 8th October.
Nine young Oxfordshire apprentices were recognised at the awards held at Bicester Golf and Country Club. The awards are designed to celebrate the exceptional achievements of local construction trainees, the ceremony rewards hard work and dedication across disciplines such a Joinery, Carpentry and Bricklaying.
The awards ceremony also recognised 11 first year apprentices who received certificates to recognise their commitment to the industry, the group included Kingerlee first year Bench Joinery Apprentice Ryan Cole.
Kingerlee also contributed to sponsoring the event. | | Kingerlee have recently completed the installation of eighty prefabricated glazed wall units on their £35m Kendrew Quadrangle project at St John’s College in Oxford. Each unit, weighing in at 1600kg, is a composite structure built around a galvanized steel chassis. Externally, the unit is clad with Cumaru, a sustainable hardwood. The windows are double glazed with aluminium frames shaded with a stainless steel canopy. The design of each module has been carefully integrated into a sample bedroom unit and developed with the client team at Kingerlee’s head office in Kidlington. The units are bolted back to the concrete frame of the building on pre-fixed threaded anchors which allow rapid installation. Internally, the units will be clad with oak joinery to form book shelves and window seats.
|  |  | Kingerlee and St John’s College have recently “Topped Out” the £35m Kendrew Quadrangle Project in the centre of Oxford. The ceremony included representatives from the client, designers, Kingerlee and their sub-contractors who celebrated the completion of the roof structure with the insertion of a “golden bolt”. Sir Michael Scholar, the St John’s College President torqued the final bolt with a golden wrench. The MJP designed quadrangle building is formed around a historic beech tree. The development which includes high quality study bedrooms, archive storage, library, restaurant and public areas is due for completion in the summer of 2010. | | Kingerlee have been awarded a £1.6m contract to undertake refurbishment of an existing building and provide new Art teaching facilities at the Stowe School, Buckingham. Kingerlee will be working with their Design and Build Architect Rick Mather. In a hard fought bid Kingerlee came out on top, seeing off competition from Linford, Beard, Marriot and Ashe. Work is due to start on site this August with completion anticipated for summer 2010. | | Kingerlee have secured a new £4.9m contract at the Oxford High School to re-develop the existing Girls Day School to provide a Library, School Hall, Dining facility, Drama Studio, Lecture Theatre and Admin Centre. Kingerlee fought off rival bids from Beard, Speller Metcalf, Kier Moss, Mansell and Bowmer & Kirkland. The project commenced on site in July. |  | | 
| Kingerlee have recently installed a Mason Jack Flooring Systems at one of their College projects in Oxford. The system is designed to mitigate issues of sound transfer through concrete structural floors and is being installed between the college’s gymnasium, music and events rooms, and [quiet] archive reading room. Rubber jacks were installed prior to a concrete screed topping being poured and “jacked up” once the concrete has reached its designed strength. Threaded rods were inserted for the winding process and the slab was jacked up to form an air gap between the screed and sub-floor of up to 100mm. | | 'Ball former' technology was used in the construction of a suspended concrete slab in a £4m home in Berkshire. Spheres made of recycled polyethylene were used to form the main slab including a large-span terrace. The slab is around 35% lighter than an equivalent solid floor, requiring less column support to achieve the required spans. It is thought that it is the first time the method, which uses technology from Swiss firm Cobiax, has been used on a domestic property on conventional decking in this country. |  | | 
| Kingerlee recently installed the first of 68 bathroom pods at their £35m Kendrew Quadrangle project for St John’s College in Oxford. The concrete pods vary in weight from 5.2t units equipped with disabled facilities, to 3.6t for the more standard student shower rooms. The units were manufactured in Vicenza, Italy at the Sterchele factory and shipped to Kingerlee's holding yard in Kidlington. This enabled day-to-day control on a 'just in time basis' delivery to the site, seven miles away. | On 17th March representatives from Kingerlee attended the annual Cokethorpe Careers Convention to give students interested in construction more information about the industry. The school felt the evening was very successful and that a vibrant and stimulating atmosphere was created. Kingerlee have attended this event in the past and hope to be able to continue to support it in the future. Whilst excavating for the foundations and drainage at the site of a new house in Sonning, Kingerlee and archaeologists unearthed a trench, believed to date back to prehistoric times. After several hours of scraping soil by hand, large animal bones, medieval pottery and a number of struck flint flakes were uncovered. The area was previously the site of the Bishop of Salisbury’s Palace which fell in to disrepair and was eventually demolished in 1574. The flint flakes are all waste flakes produced when flint was being worked into tools such as knives and scrapers. Some of the animal bones have been identified as horse bones, other bones would appear to belong to pigs and cattle, believed to have been slaughtered for food. It was also interesting to find a deer antler and a tusk that probably came from a wild boar. Soil samples containing seeds and pollen have been taken from the site for environmental analysis. This will help to define the age of the archaeological remains. Members of the Kingerlee and client teams were invited to attend the official opening of the recently constructed English and Media Centre at Wheatley Park School. Following presentations by the school the building was opened by Mr John Howell MP for Henley. | Kingerlee assisted Exeter College in the erection and placing of an Anthony Gormley Statue [the creator of the Angel of the North] onto a building in the surrounds of the historic City of Oxford. It was placed on the skyline of the college, on the corner where Broad Street meets Turl Street. The operation required detailed planning and co-ordination in a busy and central area of Oxford. A mobile crane was used in conjunction with road closures following close consultation with Oxfordshire Highways authorities. The statue, a seven foot tall figure weighing in at around a half a tonne was carefully placed into position on the 15th February 2009, following which a ceremony was attended by Anthony Gormley, Exeter College and its benefactors along with members of the local community. Kingerlee Contracts Manager Sam Brown said “It is a privilege to be involved is such a significant event in Oxford. We are currently working closely with Exeter College and are on site constructing a £5.5m student accommodation development for them”. | 
|  | Kingerlee are pleased to announce they have been appointed as the preferred second stage bidder for a New £6m Archive Centre at the Waddesdon Estate, Aylesbury. The focal point in the scheme to be an Oak Grid Shell structure to the reading room and associated archives utilising passive ventilation design. Subject to final negotiations, the project is due to commence on site this summer. | | The construction of a purpose built hall enclosing a hydrotherapy pool with associated changing facilities. The new facility has a purpose built, link building to the original school, and the pool features a hydraulic ram controlled moving floor.
This project is the fruition of a dedicated fund raising campaign by the school and its friends, supported by Buckinghamshire County Council, to provide a much needed facility for disabled children and the local community. | | Further to the successful completion of the enabling works in March 2008, the main construction works have now commenced on the construction of a new four- storey quadrangle building, around a large protected beech tree. | | Kingerlee Ltd are pleased to announce that they have recently promoted Glynn Biggins and Paul Hardy as Construction Directors, and Colin Botton as Commercial Director for their Main Contracting Division. | | Kingerlee completed almost 3000 hours of training during the 2007/2008 training plan which expired on 31st July 2008. The new 2008/2009 training plan began on 1st August 2008 and currently contains 2300 hours of training. Staff Personal Reviews took place throughout October 2008 and further training requirements will be identified as a result of this.
Training is open to all Kingerlee employees, with courses being run and facilitated both in-house and externally. Some of the many courses in the current plan are First Aid, Asbestos Awareness, Control and Safe Use of Cranes, Contracts Awareness and Updates, Forklift and Telehandler, Management Training, Time Management, Appraisal Skills, Manual Handling, IT Training, Health and Safety, Scaffold Training and SMSTS courses.
The ten members of our management team who successfully completed the Direct Membership exams to become members of the Institute of Building, attended the Chartered Institute of Building graduation ceremony in 2007, which was held in Ascot. More members of staff are currently taking these exams with another ceremony planned for the near future. | | Kingerlee Ltd have recently been awarded "Chartered Building Company" status through the CIOB. | | The Investors in People Standard is a business improvement tool designed to advance an organisation's performance through its people. Our assessor selected a variety of employees from across the company to meet with him to talk about their time with Kingerlee and their experiences. He was impressed with the employees he met with, and was very pleased with Kingerlee's progress since his last visit two years ago. It is anticipated that we will be reassessed at the end of this year. | All members of our management team, including quantity surveyors and estimators, together with the entire board of directors have been successful in attaining either the CITB Health & Safety Test or Site Management Safety Training Scheme and achieving CSCS Registration.
We are currently up skilling our operatives through a range of training courses covering topics such as manual handling, safe use of abrasive wheels and use of mechanical plant (e.g. telehandlers, MEWPs, etc)
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