Pictured: Artist's impression of the new extra care scheme
at Waring Court in Thatcham that is fitted out by J S Wright
Leading building services provider J S Wright has won two
contracts worth a total of more than £1 million to fit out
new facilities for elderly people in Berkshire.
The Birmingham company, which launched a new London office this
year, will be fitting out a 51-bed extra care scheme at Waring
Court in Thatcham and a 26 one-bed apartment dementia extra care
scheme at Beeches Manor in Wokingham for social enterprise Housing
21.
The company has been commissioned by construction company
Willmott Dixon to work to a systems pre-design by EngDesign after
successfully completing its first two extra care schemes and a
dementia unit for Housing 21 in the West Midlands last year.
J S Wright has already begun fitting out the new-build
apartments, which will give residents the security and privacy of
their own home with responsive specialist care and support
services, along with lounges, a hair salon, shop and a
restaurant.
The company will be ensuring that both schemes deliver maximum
warmth and comfort by providing central plant LPHW (low pressure
hot water) heating via wall mounted boilers, along with domestic
hot and cold water services, whole house extract ventilation and
under floor heating.
J S Wright will also be installing a mini CHP (combined heat and
power) unit in the plant room and communal heat recovery
ventilation at Waring Court, which is scheduled for completion in
April 2012, and a rainwater harvesting system for four of the
dementia apartments at Beeches Manor which will be complete in
February 2012.
Marcus Aniol, Managing Director of J S Wright, said: "We are
delighted to have been awarded a further two contracts for Housing
21 as we continue to build on our standing as the contractor of
choice in the fast-growing extra care sector."