The Project
The King’s School Worcester is an independent co-educational day school which has 35 buildings across 3 sites. Pupils ages range from pre-prep to sixth form.
The King’s School has historical monuments on the site, and because of this it has a Historic England Preservation Order. Black Pear Electrical are aware of the sensitive nature of historic buildings and grounds being subject to conservation orders and on occasion have to work with conservation bodies and archaeologists to ensure these are orders are maintained.
There are 160 distribution boards in 35 buildings across the 3 sites, with different testing frequencies, for example buildings that are used by members of the public need to on an annual testing schedule, whilst others are on a five-year schedule. We agree and run a rolling schedule of testing with the King’s site manager, ensuring that each building it tested within it recommended time frame.
Our Approach
Testing and any associated remedials are generally scheduled during school holidays or weekend not only to minimise disruption to the school’s operation but to negate and reduce risks associated with working on live sites. Prior to scheduling, all works are agreed during a planning meeting in advance of all the school holidays.
Black Pear always carry out their work reliably, on time and on budget.
Whilst working at King’s we also identified a major fault with large buried sub main. Our testing prevented a potentially major failure which would have taken the power out to two large classroom blocks. We sourced and made arrangements for the specialist team to locate the fault on a 100m section of buried cable along with the civil engineers and cable jointing specialist to rectify issue. This work required an archaeologist present for the excavation, due to the Historic England Preservation Order on the site.
The Work Included…
EICRS covering more than 160 distribution boards in 35 buildings across 3 sites
Remedial works including more than 20 distribution board upgrades
Conversion of double decker bus into a library
Identification of major sub main fault, arrangement of specialist teams to locate and rectify in co-ordination with Historic England
Emergency lighting installation & maintenance
Reactive works
Assisting on site electrician with major work
Conversion of double decker bus into a library
Assisting with the relocation of DT block dust extraction supplies and control
