Hallam Court Resident Meeting Minutes - May 2024
We are pleased to share the minutes from our last resident meeting for Hallam Court residents held on 29th May 2024.
As a reminder, if you have any queries, questions or concerns regarding the works being undertaken by Equans please direct them to your appointed Resident Liaison Officer, Fred Bygrave.
Last month's key steps:
- Stage 3 design and drawings received and now complete
- Stage 4 design in progress
- 98% of gas surveys have been completed
- We have completed 85% of the Y Wall and insulation installation
- We had a Fire Engineer on site on 15th May testing the smoke alarms and a Fire Strategy Plan has been completed
- We have started installation of the cavity barriers to the party walls
- We have started the fire mastic to the Y Wall
- We have also started the EPDM around the windows
- We have started installing the breather membrane
Next month's key steps:
- Completion of the installation of the insulation and the Y walls
- Fire mastic will be completed
- EPDM around the windows will be completed
- Installation of cavity barriers, brackets
- Completion of stage 4 design
- Breather membrane completed
Questions asked during the meeting:
Q: What are we waiting for with stage 4 and what is stage 4?
A: Stage 4 drawings have been issued for consultant's comments, Structural Engineer, Fire Engineers and consultants. Stage 4 is the final design information from specialist cladding contractors based on stage 3 designs / drawings and comments from engineers/consultants to manufacture and construct the project.
Q: Will the gardens / areas be re-instated?
A: Yes, the gardens will be re-instated. In the meantime we will cut the grass and tidy up the garden areas. Cutting of the grass is weather dependent as we cannot cut grass if it is raining, or the grass is wet.
Q: Why have we only completed 98% of the gas surveys and not 100%?
A: There are a couple of properties that we have not managed to gain access to.
Q: Why was the fire alarms tested in Hallam and Olivia Court?
A: The purpose of the test was to provide information as to how the building fire precautions operate together in an emergency, such as escape routes and distances operation and efficiency of the smoke ventilation, compartmentation lines of fire resistance, means to alert occupants of a fire. Please note the fire alarm test was a silent test.
These minutes have been extracted from the May resident meeting, to view the minutes in full, please click here.
