Every site manager and head teacher wants a clean and safe environments for their students and teachers. Here are 5 tips you should follow to ensure your learning environment is clean and safe for a brighter future. Assess Temperature Levels: It is important that your heating and air conditioning is working properly throughout the year. If you identify any signs of malfunction or failure, you should contact a specialist as soon as possible. If the temperature is too cold or hot outside, you would need to adjust the temperature of the school to ensure your students are comfortable during the school […]
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Education and Building Management
Schools in recent times carry responsibility, not only for educating young people, but also a wide range of building management tasks.
Although some manage their buildings themselves, many seek help from professional facilities management companies such as Munday + Cramer.
Together with strategically chosen partners, the Essex-based practice help schools manage their buildings, enabling them to concentrate on education. They assess what needs to be done and arrange for both scheduled and ad-hoc works to be completed with minimum disruption to the school.
Munday and Cramer can also assist schools with a wide range of services including:
- Preparing bids to gain funding for the improvement of school buildings via the CIF (Condition Improvement Fund) Process
- Undertake asset management plans and condition surveys
- Provide advice and support regarding ESOS Energy compliance
- Undertake curriculum surveys and space planning.
- New builds
- Extensions
- Roof repairs and replacements
- Heating system upgrades
- Replacement windows.
Munday + Cramer are again in the limelight, following the recent foray in to the world of television, with the filming of a piece regarding our successes in an innovative new Degree Apprenticeship programme. Lee Hatwell, Michael Smith and Georgia Dear were invited to speak at the RICS at their ‘It’s all about SME’ event at the Institution’s Head Office on Parliament Square, London. The event forms part of the Institution’s 150th birthday celebrations and the President’s tour. A range of SME practices and Chartered Surveyors were invited to talk about how they are contributing to the future of professional surveying […]
Munday + Cramer have achieved further success for Academy clients today within the 2017/8 CIF round. The announcement of the successful CIF appeal applications across the UK increased M+C’s haul by a further six projects. With just 75 successful applicants within the CIF appeal process; this reinforces the high success levels M+C consistently achieves within the Condition Improvement Fund. The successful CIF appeals provide an additional £2.6m of funding, for the six academies located across Essex, Thurrock and Kent. This brings Munday + Cramer’s total haul for Condition Improvement Fund work to £22.6M in 2017/8. This means that M+C secured […]
Munday + Cramer has again seen extraordinary growth in work secured under the Condition Improvement Fund from the EFA. For the fourth successive year, the Essex building surveying and architectural practice has outpaced the market. Projects with a total value exceeding £20.0M have been secured; representing a 63% increased in workload secured compared to 2016. The Condition Improvement Fund is organised by the Education Funding Agency annually. The fund is competed for by academy and free schools across the UK, to support condition-related projects. Over 3800 bid applications were made in the most recent round for the available £466.0M. Projects that […]
Munday + Cramer were pleased to support this year’s Orsett Show. The event; held for the 110th time will took place on Saturday 3rd September. The showground, set in 30 acres of Essex countryside just outside of the village of Orsett offers a popular family day-out; attended by just under 11,000 visitors. The show dates back to 1841 initially. Following a break of a number of years, the ‘modern’ show has run successively from 1895 with the exception of breaks during the two world wars. At 110 years, it is now one of the UK’s longest-running one-day country shows. Organised each year by the Orsett Horticultural […]
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, […]
