Mersea Outdoors Centre, Essex

Construction of New Log Cabin Accommodation and WC/Shower Block Facilities

Company: Cadman Construction Ltd | Category: Residential, Education, Social, Community & Leisure

This Case Study project comprises of the construction of several log cabin buildings at the Mersea Outdoors Centre including significant groundworks and infrastructure works to facilitate construction of the individual buildings.

The project brief provided for us to thoroughly research, import and assemble a number of highly specialist and quality log cabin components, purchased from a world leading log cabin supplier based in Finland. Each building was meticulously designed to co-ordinate with the Architectural Design and developed with close reference to the UK Building Regulations to ensure compliance.

This was the first commercial project for which the log cabin supplier had been involved with in the UK and following our detailed research into their products it was determined that the materials used were of sustainable timber construction using top quality Finnish softwood timber and the products offered comfortably satisfied UK Building Regulations.

Amongst the buildings constructed we assembled a large 40 bed student accommodation block, classroom and large shower/toilet block. Rainwater harvesting was also incorporated in order to increase the environmental efficiency of the scheme.

This scheme was in a coastal location, providing a wide range of accommodation types to compliment an existing outdoor activity centre, serving students from a wide range of social backgrounds including inner city areas.

The Finnish cabins have proved to be very thermally efficient since the timber log construction exhibit an excellent u-value and used in conjunction with triple glazing, which was offered as standard by our Finnish supplier providing excellent insulation properties and visually complimenting the wide rural coastal environment.