Thursday 1 November 2012

Taking On The Challenges of College and School Refurbishment

College or school refurbishments can be challenging, whether you are a site manager or a caretaker, or if you are a head teacher juggling planning your school refurbishment with managing your school. Choosing experienced school refurbishment contractors can help you to manage and even unload many of these trials, leaving you much needed time for your day to day challenges instead.

Here we review some of the challenges faced in a college or school refurbishment and how the GDL Interiors team of school refurbishment contractors can help.

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School Refurbishment Contractors - Helping You Manage Tight Deadlines

Whatever the organisation, from offices and shops through to college and school refurbishments, the amount of disruption to your day to day operations needs to be kept to a minimum.

When planning college and school refurbishments, this is often made a little easier with opportunities during the school holidays offering limited windows of time in which to have any works carried out.

As experienced office and school refurbishment contractors this is business as usual for GDL Interiors. We will work with you to ensure that your school refurbishment work is carried out to plan, and causing minimal interruption.

School Refurbishment Contractors - Keeping Tight Budgets In Mind

At GDL Interiors we know that any school refurbishment works will have been planned into budgets that are already tight. And we know that your budgets are best spent on maximising the benefits of schooling for your students.

We have an excellent track record in designing to budget and keeping within them, achieved by spending the time to investigate and understand your project in our no obligation site visit before we start your quote.


School Refurbishment Contractors - Modernising Older Buildings Sympathetically

Schools and colleges don’t often have the option of simply moving premises in the way that an office or retailer may be able to. Colleges and schools buildings are frequently several decades old and refurbishments often have unique and often quite unusual requirements.

This means that it is essential to be able to make the best of the space there is, maximising the benefits of a having an older, possibly even historic building to work within, while providing modern facilities for pupils and students.

Choosing GDL Interiors as your school refurbishment contractors you will benefit from years of experience in choosing the perfect materials and finishes for your school refurbishment and we will work with you to recommend the most appropriate materials - whether traditional, modern, or a blend - to ensure your school or college meets modern standards and expectations.

School Refurbishment Contractors - Helping Reduce The Effects of Wear and Tear

Choosing sturdy, hard wearing materials for your school refurbishment is essential to cope with the large volume of occupants within a school or college building, not to mention the countless visitors coming into the premises. At GDL Interiors we will help you to specify the most suitable designs and materials to withstand these high levels of use.  We can advise you on a range of anti vandalism products including anti graffiti paint, anti climb paint, vandal resistant sanitary ware and more.

School Refurbishment Contractors - With Health and Safety Considerations In Mind

The safety of children, students and staff is paramount and we know that all commissioning schools and colleges are required to demonstrate that they have considered health and safety as part of any refurbishment.

Always including health and safety requirements within our standard procedures, we ensure that we are continually up to date with obligations, legal or otherwise, and you can be sure that this aspect will be well covered as part of your school refurbishment project.

School Refurbishment Contractors - Taking The Lead on Legal Considerations

As a school, safeguarding children is key. At GDL Interiors we ensure that all of our people have had the appropriate employment checks and should we be carrying out school refurbishment works for you during term time, we carry out Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks for those who will be working on your project.

Choosing GDL Interiors for Your School Refurbishment


We have close to four decades of experience refurbishing offices, colleges and schools. As well as offering high quality installation and workmanship, we undertake complete project management for each job, whether small or large - and it is this close attention to project management which has earned us our reputation for delivering on time and to budget - both elements essential in any school refurbishment.

To book a no obligation site visit or to discuss your school refurbishment requirements, call us today on 01621 842484.