High Street, Wisbech – JCW Deck 34C
Background
Since the introduction of the National Lottery in 1994 more than £40 Billion has been awarded to charities and local communities in grants to improve the lives of local people, one such community was Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. Areas of the town centre were in need of improvement so the local council applied for funding to help with this. When this was received one recipient of a grant carried out a project for the conversion of old storage space above local shops in the High Street into apartments. Due to the charitable funding the local council stipulated that these had to be kept for rental for an initial period to help the local population with affordable accomodation, and also that only local contractors should be used for the works with Turner Contracting being the chosen company.
Why JCW??
Using on-line software that tracks planning applications, the team at JCW became aware of the project.
After initial telephone contact was made a visit to site was arranged. At this initial meeting consideration was raised that merely meeting building regulations for this project was not sufficient due to the conversion being above commercial premises that had potentially higher noise levels when compared to usual apartments. With this in mind the decision was made to use JCW’s Acoustic Deck 34C that not only delivers excellent impact noise prevention but also has an enhanced resilient layer therefore providing an extra level of performance to the airborne requirement.
The Solution
In total 240m2 of Acoustic Deck 34C was supplied and fitted to the four apartments. Three of these were one bedroom units whilst the fourth was a two bedroom maisonette. Although the floor between the lower and upper parts of this larger unit did not have to meet the higher separating floor limits required of the other floors, a decision was made to do so in this instance to provide a more harmonious environment for the resident.
The Result
John Bates, site manager, commented
“The JCW decking was as easy and quick to install as any normal t&G flooring system meaning that our own joiners could be used rather than having to employ any specialist trades therefore cutting down on costs and programme time”.
As seen from the feedback we received from the client the result was a very happy customer having used an easy to install & cost effective solution that also offered a high level of noise reduction and met their constructional time-frame.