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News Release from: Wernick Buildings | Subject: Temporary library in Cardiff
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 February 2008
Temporary library while Cardiff
transformed
Wernick Buildings won the contract to construct and erect the two adjacent, double storey, factory made buildings, which comprise 74 modules delivered over a ten day period.
The SD2 (St David's 2) Development will completely transform Cardiff city centre The GBP535m project will include a major John Lewis departmental store and a significant number of other retail outlets including nine new stores, 93 shops, cafes, restaurants, bars, 300 residential apartments, 3000 car parking spaces and other public amenities, including a new civic library
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 12 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The ground floor will be given over to up-market retail outlets.
The development time-table posed a problem for the library service however.
How was the local authority to continue operating the library out of a city centre location with the existing library building listed for demolition early in the re-development programme?.
The SD2 Partnership came up with the answer.
They would jointly fund the construction of a modular building sited on a plot of land in Bute Street, just half a mile from the old library building.
This would clear the area for development and at the end of two years the building will be carefully dismantled and sold on.
The total cost of building and equipping the temporary library will be GBP3m, including the cost of a specialist company moving all the books into the building.
Neath Abbey based modular building specialists Wernick Buildings won the contract to construct and erect the two adjacent, double storey, factory made buildings, which comprise 74 modules delivered over a ten day period.
"There was a reaction from some of the companies that overlook the site when they heard that we had specified modular buildings", stated Richard Hinton the SD2 project manager.
"However, their fears were quelled when they saw the building starting to take shape".
"There was also concern that the lorries delivering the modules would be stacked up along the adjoining main road waiting to be off-loaded, but again these concerns proved to be unfounded because Wernick, who are very experienced at organising this type of project, managed the deliveries very well".
The Wernick Group have more than 70 years experience in the design and manufacture of prefabricated modular buildings that are suitable for semi-permanent or permanent structures up to three storeys high.
Their steel framed buildings can be finished with a traditional brick skin, or a cladding system, that together with a pitched tile clad roof gives an attractive appearance that can out perform more traditional methods in many ways.
Richard Hinton continued, "We decided on a system of modular construction based on the parameters of cost and speed of construction".
"Wernick won the contract because they were able to meet these two crucial aspects of the project". Request a free brochure from Wernick Buildings ...
"They were on site for just 19 weeks".
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