The Project
The King’s School Worcester is an independent co-educational day school which has 35 buildings across 3 sites. Pupils ages range from pre-prep to sixth form.
Because the King’s School have historical monuments on the site it has a Historic England Preservation Order. Black Pear Electrical are aware of the sensitive nature of historic buildings and grounds being subject to conservation orders, on occasion having to work with conservation bodies to ensure these are orders are maintained.
Buildings in public use and the swimming pools require more frequent fixed wire electrical safety testing – annually in some cases – so there is a lot of testing work to be done! Other buildings on the sites are scheduled for tests every 5 years. The school employs a maintenance electrician , who Black Pear work with to provide independent inspections and to support his workload.
We also needed remedial electrical work, particularly to the emergency lighting.
Our Approach
We make sure work is all scheduled with the site manager outside class times so that site access is easier. Paul Sweeney ( MD) establishes a regular pattern for communication , meeting up in advance of all the school holidays to agree what work is to be done and schedule the times into the diary.
Black Pear always carry out their work reliably, on time and on budget.
Whilst working at King’s we also identified a major fault with large buried sub main. Our testing prevented a potentially major failure which would have taken the power out to two large classroom blocks. We sourced and made arrangements for the specialist team to locate the fault on a 100m section of buried cable along with the civil engineers and cable jointing specialist to rectify issue. This work required an archaeologist present for the excavation, due to the Historic England Preservation Order on the site.
The Work Included…
Easter 2018 until summer 2019
EICRS covering 107 distribution boards in 23 buildings across 3 sites
Remedial works including 18 distribution board upgrades
Conversion of double decker bus into a library
Identification of major sub main fault, arrangement of specialist teams to locate and rectify in co-ordination with Historic England
Emergency lighting installation & maintenance
Reactive works
Assisting on site electrician with major works
Easter Holidays 2018
EICR covering 25 distribution boards across 2 sites & 9 buildings,
Half Term, summer 2018
Remedial Works from EICR including Distribution board upgrades
Summer Holidays 2018
EICR covering 30 distribution boards across 5 buildings the main site
Distribution Board upgrades from Easter EICR
Conversion of double decker bus into a library
Assisting Richard with relocation of DT block dust extraction supplies and control
Fault identified with a 300amp switch. Arranged replacement with short turnaround time.