Civil engineers cook up more prison work!
1st February 2010
Teesside building and civil engineering company Henderson Campbell has begun 2010 with a £1.2M project at a prison on Merseyside.
Snow delayed the start of work at Liverpool prison in the heart of the city but a team of 20 is now travelling there weekly to work on the construction of a new, large-scale modular kitchen.
The single storey building will have the capacity to provide 1600 meals at a time for the inmates. Once operational, Henderson Campbell will then have the task of demolishing the impractical old-fashioned kitchen.
The eight-wing prison is a typical, austere Victorian building, constructed in 1855 on a 22-acre site to serve the whole of the Merseyside Courts catchment area.
Henderson Campbell’s contract, being carried out in partnership with Caledonian Building Systems, specialists in pre-engineered buildings, is scheduled to take 40 weeks to complete.
The core of the team now working in Liverpool comprises 15 men who, towards the end of last year, completed the firm’s £1.5M contract at a women’s prison at Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire – one month ahead of schedule.
It was the third time in 10 years that the Teesside civil engineering company had been involved with developments at Eastwood Park jail in Wotton-under-Edge.
Henderson Campbell MD, Antony Henderson, said Home Office work had been the company’s mainstay since 1990 but they were now beginning to add more diverse projects to their portfolio.
"Modular/portable buildings are perfect for prisons but are also now welcomed by hotel developers as well as schools, supermarkets and the leisure centre so we are looking forward to diversifying as 2010 progresses,” he explained.