EventHireexpands

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Conservationarea getsnew schoolbuilding

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BAM’s £40mhospitalproject nervecentre

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FocusT h e W e r n i c k G r o u p N e w s l e t t e r

The leading independent name in the sale and hire of modular and relocatable buildings in the UK

To expand school facilities quickly and cost-effectively LEA’s are turning

increasingly to modular construction. The King’s School in Ottery St Mary is

just such a case. Its new two-storey building was delivered over four days, which

is fast for a 723 square metre, 15 room building.

The school’s decision to use modular construction was influenced by two factors.

1. Less disruption on site. The school did not want lorries passing through the front

gates of the school at any time, so delivery was by craning the modules into position

from the school’s coach park. 2. Cost. A modular building is highly competitive in

price when compared to conventional construction.

Internal and external finishing work took just 20 weeks. The new building houses the

expanding geography department, the 6th Form Centre and IT room.

Sixth-formers proudof their new building

‘Finest accommodation’for new police HQ siteWork on a new £63m headquarters for Greater Manchester Police is

under way and Carillion has again hired AVflex site offices from Wernick

Hire. Senior staff at the site have stated that the AVflex is, “the finest

temporary site accommodation we have ever worked in.”

The two-storey 14-bay secure modular building is finished in Carillion’s

corporate colour scheme, but it is the spacious open-plan interior that has

really impressed senior staff.

The ground floor is laid out as a

9.6m x 3.6m meeting room, an

induction room and a canteen

with full catering facilities.

The first floor has a

reception area, meeting

room, small kitchen and

a large carpeted open

plan main office.

www.avflex.co.uk

This significant acquisition is the latest Wernick

Hire key purchase. To Wernick Hire’s fleet of more

than 20,000 units, distributed nationwide across 28

Depots, has been added Rollalong’s 4000 units and

1800 clients. The two companies’ combined expertise

and experienced staff remain dedicated to supplying a

one-stop shop for a wide variety of accommodation

requirements. Rollalong’s event hire operations have

also been acquired giving Wernick Event Hire a depot in each of three

key locations – London, Birmingham and Winchester.

Chief Executive David Wernick stated, “This major

investment has further strengthened the trading

position of our core business throughout Britain.

We are looking forward to continuing a close

working relationship with both our new and

our existing clients.”

David Wernick

Wernick acquires Rollalong Hire in majorindustry purchase

One of the King’s School’sspacious classrooms.

The King’s School’snew 15 roommodular building.

The nerve-centre for the Welsh Assembly’s £40m first phase improvement plans for

Swansea’s Morriston Hospital are these six-on-six linked secure units that comprise the

site office for BAM Construction.

Supplied by Wernick Hire, the two-storey building comprises meeting rooms on the first floor

and a kitchen, drying room, canteen, toilets, and

sub-contractors’ offices on the ground floor.

The units were supplied finished in

BAM’s corporate colours.

Morgan Est hire WernickWernick Hire has supplied the modular site office

complexes for Morgan Est’s £21m civil engineering

projects for Welsh Water at Cardiff and Aberavon.

The site facilities include a large open-plan modular

office with separate kitchen and meeting rooms and a

second modular

building containing

training and

induction rooms,

a canteen, showers,

toilets and a

drying room.

Wernick Buildings: 0800 18 18 22 Wernick Hire: 0800 51 55 55

Seven police forces have bought or hired Wernick

Buildings’ PCflex™ modular custody cells since they

became available in 2009, generating great interest

amongst senior police officers in other forces. Inspector

Colin Christie, the Inspector of Custody Strategy Group,

Grampian Police said of his PCflex™ building, “I firmly

believe this is the way forward for all custody needs.

This facility is the best in our force and I strongly believe

may be the best in Scotland”

The PCflex™ system meets all Home Office ‘Safer Detention’

standards and can be supplied on hire, as a permanent

extension, or as a complete new custody suite. The Cumbria

Constabulary hired an eight cell PCflex™ system as a disaster

relief solution after the Workington Police station was

engulfed by flood water. The new custody suite was

delivered and up and running in five days.

Email: secure@wernick.co.uk

Instant ‘porridge’the Wernick way

Miracle hospital

Blackpool’s flood defence scheme is being

promoted as one of the best ways to prepare

against the threat of natural disasters in the UK.

Birse civils were tasked with improvements to 400

metres of existing promenade sea defence.

The site offices for this project were two Wernick

Hire AVflex™ secure modular buildings positioned

in front of the resort’s Grand Metropole Hotel.

Special requirements for the contract were seven

three tonne concrete blocks to be attached to the

buildings. These would protect against exceptionally

high winds and the danger of the site offices floating

away in a flood before the new scheme is completed!

www.avflex.co.uk

Mooring lines as extras

A two-storey 44 bed isolation ward completed in the

miracle time of 26 weeks is up and running at Warwick

Hospital. The tender was won by Wernick Buildings on

price and a guarantee to deliver the building to an

exceptionally tight deadline.

With the Swine Flu pandemic in mind, the 72-bay, £3.4m

modular building is equipped throughout as an infection

controlled isolation wing with passive infra-red (PIR)

controlled lighting, taps, toilets and door operation.

All ward areas are also equipped with medical gases and

a filtered ventilation system. The building’s mechanical

systems are controlled by a state-of-the art computerised

management system. John Stevens the estates manager at

Warwick Hospital commented, “My colleagues and I were

very impressed at the speed and build quality achieved on

this complex project within the confines of a working hospital.

Modular building ticks all the boxes as far as we are concerned”.

Just like people, every company

or organization has its own

identity and personality.

The Wernick Group of Companies

is no exception, possessing five

corporate logos and six brand logos.

It is vitally important that where these

are used they are applied consistently.

To this end, the Wernick Executive

Board commissioned the production

of a Corporate Identity publication.

Our clients will see the new logo styles

gradually being applied throughout

our companies and products.

Wernick employees can refer to

the publication on the Company

Information Intranet.

Wernick’sCorporateIdentity

BAM’s £40m hospital project

Ermington Community PrimarySchool’s new building.

Wernick Event Hire: 0800 328 5959 Visit www.wernick.co.uk

With the expansion of pre-school provision Ermington Primary

School in Devon required extra space rapidly.

NPS South West, the property design and construction company was

commissioned to provide the new building. Cost-effectiveness was top

priority as was a tight delivery schedule.

Keith Stone, NPS’s surveyor approached Wernick Buildings, who

converted his specific design requirements into a factory built reality.

Keith commented that, “Ermington village is in a conservation area, so

my design had to be sensitive to the surroundings. I chose modular

construction because I have used it very successfully before. It’s

fast, cost-effective and can be adapted to just about any educational

design concept – it’s limited only by the designer’s imagination.”

The modular building was delivered and craned-in in one day; finishing

work took eight weeks. The building’s natural stone and Siberian Larch

exterior is complimented by a natural slate roof.

Conservation area getsnew school building

Ten weeks from start to finish, that’s how

long Wernick Buildings were on site at Gosford

Park Sure Start Centre in Coventry.

The building was delivered in just one day with internal

and external finishing work occupying the remaining time.

A brick skin and pitched tiled roof completed the

external finish of the building and under-floor central

heating and paint-finished tape and fill plasterboard

walls were used in the high specification interior.

Facilities at the centre include a play room, a community

room and offices for staff based at the centre. A similar

traditionally built structure would have taken around 21

weeks to complete.

Flying startfor CoventrySure Start

The new performing arts

facilities for the The Sir Henry

Floyd Grammar School in Aylesbury

includes two full size dance studios and a practice

room. All have four metre high ceilings, sprung flooring and

ceiling mounted, flush fitted radiant heat panels.

The school has specialist status in performing arts. The recent building

programme at the school also delivered new 6th form accommodation. Both

developments were design and build projects supplied by Wernick Buildings.

Strictlycomedancing

A stipulation of their local authority meant that Portico Kindergarten’s

latest building had to be modular in construction. So the client decided

to explore the possibility of obtaining a refurbished building.

Refurbishment specialists PK Accommodation was able to meet Portico’s

precise requirements and director Nicole Politis was very complimentary

about their new-look premises and the service she received - “The staff

at PK were very efficient from start to finish and our good-as-new

accommodation meets my exact specifications.”

The totally refurbished modular building has separate day rooms for

the three age groups the kindergarten accommodates, plus a kitchen,

staff room, office, stock room and toilets.

Tel: 01347 838825

Refurbished building gets thumbs-up

When fire destroyed four classrooms at Cowbridge Comprehensive School Wernick Hire

moved rapidly to provide replacement accommodation. The ruined classrooms housed

the food technology, design technology, textiles and IT departments. The rooms were all

fitted with expensive equipment and much of this had also been lost in the fire.

Replacement modular classrooms from Wernick were completed in just 31 days from the

outbreak of the fire.

“This rapid turn-round was a big achievement”, said school systems project officer

John Werrett. “We went from a pile of charred remains to four

fully equipped classrooms in five weeks. This all required

a high level of co-operation and flexibility between

our school staff and Wernick Hire.”

Gosford Park Sure StartChildren’s Centre.

The new accommodation for the

design

technology department. Wernick raises

school from inferno ashes

Educationfeature

WWeerrnniicckk’’ss ssppoorrttiinngg eevveennttss

Sales Office and Hire Depot Locator

Seven teams made up from Wernick

people and

our contractors raced the night away

at our last

Go Karting time-trial. Our contractor

s took the

first two team places despite some de

sperate

driving by the Wernick All-Stars Team

towards

the end of the evening.

The first placed teams were – 1st ‘ Te

am Ball Cock’

(Pursey & Ball Ltd); 2nd ‘ Canine Plum

s’ (Mid Glam

Construction Ltd); 3rd ‘ Wernick All S

tars’

(Wernick Hire).

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0800 18 18 225 Divisional Sales Offices

0800 51 55 5528 Regional Depot Centres

01347 838 825York

Employees of Wernick Group Companies receive

an engraved gold watch after 10 years service.

In 2009 seventeen of our colleagues received

this award. Those with 25 and 40 years service

receive an award of their choice.

Congratulations to Les James of our Neath

Abbey factory who notched up 45 years service

before retiring in December 2009. Also, Garry Sylvester and

Sylvia Harper, both based at our Aldridge office, who have

passed 40 and 25 years service respectively during 2009.

Wernick Long Service

RAF Citycabins™

The acquisition of Rollalong

Event Hire has brought together the considerable

expertise of two of the foremost companies in the event

hire accommodation business.

It has also increased Wernick Event Hire’s representation

to three depots in key locations - London, Birmingham

and Winchester. This follows on from Wernick’s recent

substantial investment of over £2m to support the

requirements of the CLA Game Fair over the next

five years.

Call: 0800 328 5959 or visit www.wernickeventhire.co.uk

Event Hire expands

Fifteen buccaneers from Wernick Buildings’ NeathAbbey office cruised Cardiff Bay one Friday evening lastJune. A very enjoyable time was had by all with theboat returning to Mermaid Quay completely dry inevery sense of the word.

The ‘MV Cygnet’ took Captain Nick Burd and his crew on ascenic course via Cardiff Bay Barrage and the River Taff tothe Millennium Stadium. It’s understood that some of hismore hardened crew then raided the city centre, but allreturned safely to their desks the followingMonday morning.

Cardiff Bay Cruisers

Mansfield Depot ladies have been enjoyingthemselves (again) and raising money at the sametime. On 21st June, for the fifth year running,they took part in Breast Cancer’s annual 5K ‘Racefor Life’ in Nottingham. In 2007 they dressed upas bumble bees, in 2008 as leopards and in 2009they dressed in something that was - colourful!

In five years they have raised around £4000. Well done Mansfield Depot!

MMaannssffiieelldd uupp aanndd rruunnnniinngg

Temporary organizer’s offices for a largegarden party at Buckingham Palace.

Organizer’s office accommodation forthe Farnborough Air Show.

0800 328 5959London, Birmingham, Winchester

Wernick Buildings: 0800 18 18 22 Wernick Hire: 0800 51 55 55

Six stacked Citycabins™ at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire are used as contractors’ offices andfor archive storage. They were supplied with agalvanized steel staircase and a matching mid-bandthat conceals the jackleg interfaces between the cabins.

Citycabins™ offer rapid and very flexibleaccommodation. They are fully relocatable and canmeet all current building regulation requirements.Finished to the highest standard with factory-fittedlighting, heating and floor coverings, Citycabins™ canbe partitioned to suit a client’s specific needs. Office,classroom, canteen,toilets, shower rooms,changing areas,passageways and anyother type of interiorarrangement can becreated to meet clientrequirements.

www.wernick.co.uk

• Divisional Sales Office & Hire Depot

• Event Hire Office & Depot

• Hire Depot

• PK Accommodation

The winning team, left

to right, Mervyn Mayer

s, Nicky

Bocye, Dan Thomas an

d Ian James of ‘Team B

all Cock’.

The Mansfield Team left to right – Helen Denby, Laura Smith,Vicky Ainley, Sam Ainley.

L to R: Rob Townsend, Chris Goodin

g, Claire Blight,

Stacy Thomas, Paula Draper.

Call for a copy of Wernick Hire’s new overview brochure

0800 18 18 22

Chief Executive David Wernick

congratulating Garry Sylvester

and Sylvia Harper, both based at

our Aldridge office. They passed

40 and 25 years service

respectively during 2009.

Les James’ retirementpresentation by MD Eddie Shawafter 45 years service.

Charles Buzby, foreman at ourBanbury Hire Depot receives hisaward for 10 years service fromMD Simon Doran.