Thatcham Online

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 Alice Bye Court, previously known as 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 Alice Bye 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.”