The Wates team and our sub-contractors would like to thank you for your continued patience whilst we have been on site at Burgh Mill Gardens.

Our site will close for the Christmas period on Friday 21 December, and will re-open in the new year on Wednesday 2 January.

Can we also take this opportunity to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

With the beam & block floor complete the timber frame contractor begin to fix their timber sole plates to the floor, working alongside them are the scaffolders who have erected the scaffold to the perimeter of the building. Here we can see the timber frame has progressed very quickly with the ground floor wall panels and first floor cassettes already in place.

Over half of the roof is constructed and once complete the next step will be to lift each section of the roof down, install the timber frame panels to the first floor and then lift the roof back into place and fix to the first floor panels.

An internal view of a ground floor flat.

The site hoarding is now fully installed and painted to reflect Wates livery.

With the substructure blockwork complete and the internal service ducts and drainage in place, the beam & block floor is then installed.

Once the beam & block floor is complete, bricklayers return to lay a internal perimeter course of blockwork and form the internal party and single leaf walls. Once complete the gas membrane is laid across the whole floor followed by the insulation.  

Concrete is then poured, trowel finished and left to cure, which completes the floor.

The site compound.

Substructure brickwork is progressing well, with 80% complete.

The substructure brickwork is now complete. The groundworkers are now laying the drainage and service ducts to each plot.

 

Once the concrete is cured, the bricklayers begin to construct the retaining wall. This here is the foundations of a mass masonry wall, which will step according to the land it is retaining and will alter between a reinforced concrete and mass masonry wall.

The reinforced concrete retaining wall will have a concrete cavity between a leaf of block and brickwork. Here we can see steel starter bars resin fixed into the concrete footing with mesh reinforcement then tied onto the bars.

With block and reinforcement in place, the brickwork is then laid.

Whilst the retaining wall is being constructed, foundation trenches to the block of flats is excavated.

Concrete is then poured to mass fill the trench. Once cured the bricklayers then begin to build the substructure blockwork.

Retaining wall is now complete.

Works to the second tranche of sites in the Kirklees EHL scheme are now under way. Here we have Site 18 Burgh Mill Gardens in Dewsbury. Hopefully, over approximately 35 weeks, this piece of land will be transformed into a new block of eight, 2 bedroom 4 person flats.

The whole area is stripped of its topsoil and reduce level dug to the correct formation levels.

Once the site is at the correct levels, first port of call is to construct the retaining wall with the trench being excavated for the reinforced concrete foundations.

With the trench dug and compacted, mesh reinforcement is laid to bottom of the excavation with concrete then poured until the correct thickness and level is achieved.



Welcome...

We would like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves as Wates Living Space. We are a Building Contractor working in conjunction with Kirklees Council, and have been appointed to build eight new homes on the vacant piece of land on Burgh Mill Gardens, Dewsbury.

This development is part of the Kirklees Excellent Homes for Life project, which will build 466 new homes for rent across Kirklees.  If you would like more information about the project, please visit www.kirklees.gov.uk/excellenthomes, or telephone 01484 225210 to talk to the council.

At Wates Living Space we take great pride in what we do and how we work with the local community whilst we are constructing our projects.  We will be in regular contact with you while we are building the homes, keeping you up to date with site activities which may affect you.

We will be carrying out ground investigation works for a couple of hours on Friday 29^th June, with the main construction works commencing on Monday 13th August, starting with making the site secure. 

The site is due for completion on 28 March 2013.  Please feel free to get in touch at any point during this period if you have any concerns about our activities, and we will be more than willing to discuss these further.  The site office shall be manned from 7.30 am until 5.00 pm Monday to Friday.

You can contact us directly on our free phone number, 0800 121 4840, which is available Monday to Friday between the hours of 9.00 am until 5.00 pm.  However, if you need to contact us outside of these hours, please call us on the same number and leave a brief message with your name and contact details, and your call will be returned at our earliest opportunity.

May we take this opportunity to thank you in advance for your co-operation and we look forward to working with you over the coming year.