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20
Jul 2016

Heritage training (CPD)

In line with Munday + Cramer’s continued focus on ensuring that staff receive Continuing Professional Development (CPD); staff recently took part in a Heritage Building Workshop at the impressive Cressing Temple Barns, near Braintree, Essex. Alongside M+C’s work within education, the practice sees a significant amount of work undertaken to either listed buildings or within conservation areas. This training was selected to further enhance the practice’s skills and experience within the sector. The day’s course focused specifically on roofing works associated with heritage buildings; the range of historic roof coverings, the problems of decay methods of repair as well as […]

Cressing Temple Barley Barn - Heritage Site Training
13
Jul 2016

JCT Minor Works Contract 2016

The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) recently launched its 2016 edition of the Minor Works suite of contracts, superseding the 2011 edition. The JCT Minor Works Building Contract is designed for smaller, more basic construction projects where the work is of a simple nature and procured using either the traditional or conventional method. Munday + Cramer use the Minor Works form of contract extensively, in particular within our FM division for the placement of small works. The suite of contracts is made up of: Minor works building contract (MW 2016) Minor works building contract with contractor’s design (MWD 2016) Minor works sub-contract with […]

Joint Contracts Tribunal
18
May 2016

Pearls of Wisdom – Rob Barr on 30 years with M+C

The 16th of May saw the celebration of Rob Barr having spent thirty years with the South Woodham Ferrers-based practice. Munday + Cramer marked the milestone with a morning’s golf with staff and close friends, followed by a local lunch. Rob joined M+C in it’s early days in 1986, following eleven years spent with local authorities including Basildon, Thurrock and Havering gaining experience in building control, maintenance surveying and general building surveying. He then joined the practice, which was then operating predominantly as a developer and contractor as a co-owner; with the remit of developing a technical team to provide technical services in-house. Subsequent years […]

Rob Barr Celebrating 30 years with Munday + Cramer
2
May 2016

Building Amendment Regulations 2016

In just one week, the new Building Amendment Regulations 2016 will overwrite the Building Regulations 2010, making the provision of the infrastructure necessary to enable broadband a requisite for any major scheme. The introduction of the amended regulations is designed to accommodate the recent EU Broadband Cost Reduction Directive which seeks is designed to promote the expansion of broadband networks across all EU member states. The Building Amendment Regulations 2016 have been altered from the incumbent rules by: Requiring new construction and major renovation works to provide in-building physical infrastructure to enable broadband services to be easily connected to the building; and Introducing a new Approved Document […]

Building Amendment Regulations 2016
29
Apr 2016

M+C start the busy summer CIF roofing works season

Munday + Cramer have started a range of roofing schemes on site this week in relation to CIF bids from the most recent round of funding from the Education Funding Agency. The full extent of this year’s £12.0 million of works are currently being finalised with clients, but this week sees the start of work on site for clients including Gable Hall School, Dilkes Academy and Benyon Primary School. All of these schemes are for roof replacement work, and illustrate the particular level of success seen by Munday + Cramer for this type of work each year. For Gable Hall School, […]

Benyon Primary School - Roof Replacement
28
Apr 2016

Raising The Roof At The Sacred Heart Of Jesus Roman Catholic Church

Works have recently started on-site at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church in Southend.   The works include a range of external refurbishment/repair works, a roof replacement and internal remedial works. This extensive scheme follows a detailed investigation in to the cause of leaks; found to be a result of a progressive failure in the roof covering and fabric of the building, leading to both dry and wet rot in the roof structure and subsequent internal damage.   A busy church in the heart of Southend; works will be undertaken whilst the church remains open, with works expected […]

Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church - Rot
26
Apr 2016

Full speed ahead at Elliott Hall Medical Centre

Works are well underway at the Elliott Hall Medical Centre in Pinner, Middlesex to provide a raft of changes to the facilities to accommodate the continued growth of the practice. The scheme, funded in part by the NHS Estates and Technology Transformation Fund, will see the vibrant practice benefit from a multi-phase scheme incorporating both a major extension, space-planning and internal re-modelling to create a range of new facilities. The first phase has seen the construction of a new two-storey extension, expanding the existing ground floor waiting room and the practice’s training facilities located on the first floor. Subsequent phases have seen the conversion […]

Elliott Hall Medical Centre
7
Apr 2016

New Starter – CAD Technician

Following Munday + Cramer’s continued success in generating and securing new work, the practice has once again been recruiting to support the existing teams with the increased workload. Stephen Harrison recently joined the architectural team as an experienced CAD technician; to provide additional technical resource across a wide-ranging workload of education, healthcare, commercial and domestic schemes covering both new build and extensions. In particular; Stephen brings with him a wealth of experience in housing design and layouts for developments, further bolstering our domestic/development design services.

24
Mar 2016

67% increase in successful CIF bids for Academies

Munday + Cramer have continued and expanded on their successes from the past three years in developing successful CIF bids for Academy schools across the region. This year’s recent announcements have seen M+C beat their record, scoring successful CIF bids amounting to just under £12,000,000 of work to be completed in 2016/7. The Condition Improvement Fund is allocated by the Education Funding Authority (EFA); to Academies for the maintenance and improvement of school facilities. The work is assessed by the EFA following a bidding process whereby M+C support the academies with technical input for the schemes including building surveying and architectural work. In […]

17
Mar 2016

Munday + Cramer ‘Wheely’ Are Raising Funds With Charity Cycle Ride

Munday + Cramer’s Marketing & Business Development Manager; David Williams is in the final leg of organising a major charity cycle ride on behalf of The Sick Children’s Trust. The event this June will present a team of cyclists from across the UK with a huge challenge; cycling from London to Le Mans, France (over 360 miles) in just 24 hours. In September 2014, David’s daughter Aoife was born in Colchester, Essex. Unfortunately, she needed significant medical support having suffered very acute Meconium Aspiration Syndrome (ingesting waste into her lungs while still in the womb). As a result, she was transferred to the […]

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