Rollalong Completes Café at Royal School of Artillery
Modular construction specialist Rollalonghas used the latest offsite techniques to provide a new café for students and staff at the Royal School of Artillery in Larkhill Garrison on Salisbury Plain.
The café is the latest building delivered by Rollalong at Larkhill Garrison on behalf of Aspire Defence Services.
Located in the centre of the Royal School of Artillery, the café will deliver a much-needed additional learning space while providing an opportunity for students and permanent staff to engage with their personal development in a relaxed and unique atmosphere.
“We were approached by Aspire Defence Services Ltd to assist them with the design and build of a new café which had to be linked to an existing building and used as an interactive learning hub,” said Wayne Cheshire, Rollalong’s Contract Manager for Special Works.
“This has been a challenging venture but thanks to everyone’s hard work and commitment a high-quality project has been successfully delivered that the client will be proud to use.”
Steve Chivers, Managing Director of Rollalong, added: “We have a close and very positive working relationship with Aspire Defence and we’re proud of all the buildings we have delivered for the Army across Salisbury Plain and Aldershot as part of the recent Army Basing Programme (ABP) and the original Project Allenby Connaught PFI contract with the MoD.
“We undertake a lot of work for the armed forces because our modular single living accommodation (SLA) buildings are constructed to exacting standards that satisfy the Army and the Defence Infrastructure Organisation’s (DIO’s) requirements.”
Rollalong is the largest permanent offsite manufacturer in the South of England and a key supply chain partner to Aspire Defence.
The company manufactures modular buildings in a quality-controlled factory environment at its headquarters in Dorset and transports the modules to site which are then assembled in sequence on a prepared substructure which typically reduces overall build timeframes by half compared to traditional forms of construction.
Among the advantages of modern methods of construction, or MMC, are precision-engineered, high-quality, energy-efficient modules, with shorter build times, less waste, improved health and safety on site and less disruption for local residents.
During 2018, Rollalong won the Best Offsite Project of the Year award at the Constructing Excellence South West Built Environment Awards for the modular single living accommodation it built for British Army personnel at Larkhill under the Army Basing Programme.
Notes for editors:
- Established in 1932, Rollalong is the largest permanent offsite construction company in the south of England, specialising in the development and manufacture of permanent offsite homes.
- The average number of workers at Rollalong is 220, made up of 40 directly employed factory workers, 30 factory subcontractors, 40 office staff, 10 directly employed site workers and 100 site subcontractors.
- Rollalong has over 50 years of experience in the rapid and risk-free delivery of quality, bespoke and modular buildings for all market sectors.
- Rollalong has a proven track record of delivered effective modular buildings across the public sector, including housing for the Ministry of Defence as well as new schools and school extensions and healthcare facilities.
- In the private sector, Rollalong has been commissioned to design and build a range of homes.
- To find out more about Rollalong visit: www.rollalong.co.uk
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