Contract for the EWI Boarding and Plastering Works at Llwyn Helyg and Llwyn Derw, Garden City, Fforest-Fach, Phase 2 EWI Scheme

Swansea Council ADG has been appointed to design and project manage a regeneration scheme to bring dwellings in line with the Welsh Housing Quality Standard requirements. The tender documents sets out the specification in line with the Client (Swansea Council Housing) Brief. The purpose of the regeneration scheme is to carry out works to upgrade Thermal Value to 37No.

Council owned properties at Llwyn Helyg and Llwyn Derw, Garden City, Fforest-fach, Swansea. The scheme consists of properties constructed in 1925 and 1964. Properties within the regeneration scheme are tenanted 2/3 Bed houses.

External wall fabric is traditional cavity wall construction made up of an internal blockwork skin, cavity and brickwork/blockwork external façade. Timber pitched roof trusses at 600mm centres form the roof construction spanning from front to the rear external walls giving support to roof tiles on battens in the form of timber purlins and timber intermediate rafters and ceiling joists in a traditional form of construction. With a lack of suitable insulation, the properties have been identified as below current requirements to meet WHQS.