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Bishop Ramsey School in Ruislip, Middlesex, a mixed 11-to-18 Church of England comprehensive school, has completed major rebuilding work in order to bring all its activities onto one site and provide state-of-the-art facilities for its 1250 students and 150 staff.

Labelled their ‘Big Build’ by the school, the project comprised a new wedge-shaped building including assembly hall, cafeteria, library, 6^th form common room and chapel, and a new ‘drama barn’ including drama and dance studios, together with refurbishment of existing classrooms and science laboratories. 

With a desire to create an inspirational learning space and fresh thinking the build has offered an opportunity to revitalise and drive the school forward. The school and architect sought to specify visually distinctive doorsets with specific performance requirements and ensure the product had an extensive lifespan and as such Leaderflush Shapland supplied a total of 212 doorsets from its Designer range, which features a wide range of veneers, laminates, PVC, paint and metal finishes. Door facings selected were American black walnut veneer, incorporating Hygienilac antimicrobial protection.

The doors featured fire resistance properties of 30 and 60 minutes, with acoustic protection of up to 38 RwdB, and also incorporated the EnduraCor core construction. EnduraCor is a highly cost-effective engineered performance core that is both versatile and stable, with ‘Severe Duty’ mechanical strength meeting the requirements set out by DD171. It provides the ideal solution for the education environment, where the need for durable and robust doorset solutions is at a premium, ensuring a longer lifespan of the product which was key to the specification on this project

Leaderflush Shapland has a wealth of experience in the education sector, and worked alongside architects GHM Rock Townsend and contractors Rydon Construction from an early stage of this project in order to help create an inspirational learning environment.