Yale College in Wrexham installs a new mezzanine floor as part of a major investment in its construction industry trainees
At a time of high unemployment among young people, Yale College in Wrexham, North Wales has invested heavily in developing its training workshop facilities for 16 to 18 year-old construction industry trainees.
This means that new opportunities have been created for more students. A former engineering workshop – which was previously a completely open space covering 190m2 – has been converted into 42 mini-workshops using a twin-level Revlok mezzanine flooring system.
Each training bay has its own facilities for students working towards City & Guilds and similar qualifications in construction industry skills such as building, electrics, welding and so on.
Facilities include power supplies and tools so each individual can work at his or her own pace. Teachers are also better able to work with and monitor the work of each student in this more personalised environment.
Graham Evans – Assistant Director in the Construction Department at Yale College – had long been keen to re-develop the unused workshop space to provide first-class training facilities:
“Everyone knows that students on vocational training courses respond better when they have good facilities and one-to-one training,” said Graham.
“As part of the overall re-development of the old engineering workshop, we looked at a number of ideas to create more space for training. The Revlok mezzanine floor concept proposed by Doity Engineering ticked all the boxes.”
The system supplied was a modular Revlok twin-level mezzanine floor arranged in two blocks of mini-workshops, with external and internal staircases which include safety hand-rails to the upper level. Materials used were a galvanised steel framework and 38mm particle board, all clad in one-hour fire-rated casing.
Doity Engineering Ltd
Alan Kershaw
Tel: 01706 646971
Email: sales@doity.com
www.revlokmezzanines.com
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