Futures Forum: Knowle relocation project ... What do you get for a £15m refurbishment? ... part one
... instead, as suggested by a correspondent, we could ask:
What do you get for a £15m refurbishment? - Google Search
And such a search reveals some interesting examples:
Castle Drogo's £11m restoration adds to visitor experience
What
you get for £11m:
The
flat roof is roughly equivalent to two international football pitches.
A high-tech roof system, designed by Bauder is being installed. This two layer
membrane is designed to cope with the extremes of temperature experienced on
Dartmoor.
In
order to lay the new waterproof system, 2,355 granite blocks weighing 680 tonnes
have to be removed and then reinstated. This will involve moving and
reassembling entire battlements and large sections of the castle
walls.
We
have also had to redesign the roof gullies to accommodate the heavy Dartmoor
rainfall.
Repointing;
the cracked cement pointing is being removed and replaced with an improved lime
based mortar. The sheer amount of new pointing required stretches to an
impressive 60,000 metres (laid in a line it would stretch all the way from
Castle Drogo to Lundy Island).
In
addition some 913
windows containing over 13,000 panes are being cleaned and the lead
replaced to stop them leaking.
A whole studio gutted and rebuilt
Stoke-on-Trent's £15m bus station opened
Royal Institution to undergo £15m renovation work:
Besides museum space on three floors, the redevelopment features expanded archives, a Young Scientist Centre, a café and bar - and the infrastructure required to support a huge increase in visitors to the building.
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