
The final stage of the project sees the Design Centre building coming down. The Design Centre was commissioned in 1998 and completed ahead of schedule in 2000, in time to see students populating it for the first time in the autumn term. The building linked the existing B and C block areas of the Mackworth campus with a multi storey glass fronting and its instantly recognisable curving roof and ‘smiling’ entrance canopy.
The original Clipstone Colliery demolition project salvaged an astonishing 96% of all materials turned up during work. As well as conducting a safe and environmentally conscious demolition of a huge site, which presented asbestos and slurry as well as the normal structural materials (copper; concrete; steel; iron), East Midlands Demolition then prepared the ground for future use, using infilling and levelling techniques to restore the Colliery site to its original tillable field condition.
e.on manages the Ratcliffe on Soar Power Plant with a close eye on its environmental impact, and has introduced a series of initiatives to offset any potential effect that the coal fired power plant might have and it's little wonder that East Midlands Demolition was chosen to take down the storage building. EMD has long made a practice of incorporating large scale recycling into its work and has spearheaded its own expansion project with the purchase of £500,000 worth of environmentally friendly equipment.
East Midlands Demolition works under the motto ‘Clearing the Way for the Future’. The Building Schools for the Future projects are perfectly keyed to the sentiment, with each school set to receive purpose built blocks and classrooms tailored to its educational specialties. Every school in the project is also to be given an expanded ICT learning presence, with a Virtual Learning Environment backing up the ‘real world’ lessons given in the new classrooms.
The new offices will be completed in nine months' time, and are designed to house all staff and machinery, with space for a 10 year expansion. The website will be updated with further news from the project as it develops.