{"id":87600,"date":"2021-01-18T14:13:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T14:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=87600"},"modified":"2021-01-18T14:13:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T14:13:29","slug":"modular-school-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/modular-school-kent\/87600\/","title":{"rendered":"Modular teaching units lifted into place at Ebbsfleet Green school"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kier.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kier<\/a> has started work on installing 98 modular teaching space units at Ebbsfleet Green Primary School in Kent<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/ebbsfleet-garden-city\/79377\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new school<\/a> will cater for 461 students ranging from nursery to year six. Facilities will include basic teaching areas, a hall, studios, dining area, learning resource areas, staff areas, administration areas and storage.<\/p>\n<p>The modular units are being installed over four one-week phases between January-April and will be lifted in using a 200-tonne crane.<\/p>\n<p>This is the largest modular build that Kier London and South East has managed for its client <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kent County Council<\/a> and demonstrates Kier\u2019s capability in delivering offsite construction on projects of all sizes.<\/p>\n<p>Additional groundwork and landscaping to the outdoor learning areas will follow the modular build and will include a multi-use games area, sports field, playground, wilding area, vegetable garden, dipping ponds, parking and drop off area.<\/p>\n<h3>Quality, cost, and health and safety benefits<\/h3>\n<p>Richard Bysouth, operations director at Kier Regional Building London and South East, commented: \u201cThis is a great example of how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/modular-construction-news\/modern-construction-myths\/80656\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modern Methods of Construction<\/a> (MMC) can be used on projects of all scales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Kier, we use MMC across many sectors and locations and it has huge benefits, from improvements in productivity to significantly reducing on-site waste as well as clear benefits in terms of quality, cost, and health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is great to see that our team has been able to innovate at Ebbsfleet Green Primary School and we will continue to assess how we can implement these methods in projects going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kier has started work on installing 98 modular teaching space units at Ebbsfleet Green Primary School in Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[676,464,997,3649,472,947,916,627,696],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mmc-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-contributor-profile","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-kier","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-modern-methods-of-construction","14":"tag-modular-construction","15":"tag-offsite-construction"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Modular teaching units lifted into place at Ebbsfleet Green school<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kier has started work on installing 98 modular teaching space units at Ebbsfleet Green Primary School in Kent\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/modular-school-kent\/87600\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Modular teaching units lifted into place at Ebbsfleet Green school\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kier has started work on installing 98 modular teaching space units at Ebbsfleet Green Primary School in Kent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/modular-school-kent\/87600\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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