Parkwood Extracare

McPhillips was awarded this project for the development of 54 assisted living apartments in Woodside, Telford for The Wrekin Housing Trust in 2008.

The construction consists of a 4 storey steel frame with precast concrete floors finished with pump placed Flowcrete screed. External walls were a combination of facing brickwork and blockwork finished using Permarock render. Internal walls were built using lightweight concrete thermal blocks and a thin joint construction method. Internal partitions to flats were metal stud and plasterboard. We used a timber trussed roof with raised seam metal decking. External windows, doors and glazed screens were composite aluminium/timber and upper apartments have external balconies with sliding, louvered cedar screens.