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Thanks for your continued interest. I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year! Stephen Tandy
Demelza’s Child Project will provide residential short breaks for children in a home-from-home setting with en-suite accommodation for families wishing to stay with their child. The new centre will also offer day care by professional carers to help families during the day as well as ‘hospice-at-home’ services by nurses and carers in the family home. Tim Blair, Demelza's Project Manager, says: "With the excellent facilities and specialised equipment going into the new building, we will be able to make a difference to countless families and help them cope with their pressing needs for as long as they wish.” The structure of the new hospice is nearing completion with internal installations, fitting out, recruitment of care staff and the grant of registration by the Healthcare Commission all expected to be completed by the end of 2008.
Under the 'round table' construction management of John O’Neill and Partners, the first phase will include all teaching rooms including specialist rooms, a new sports hall, changing facilities and a drama studio. Planning permission for the £8m project was granted earlier this year with the first phase of construction scheduled to start in July 2008.
The project is split into three phases and provides the challenge of working in a ‘live’ environment around an occupied school. The centre piece is the new build Special Educational Needs building which will provide the council with a much needed facility. This project is one of several schools projects that PierceHill is working on with The HOCA Practice for The London Borough of Sutton. |
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Health and education provide the focus of this month’s seasonal issue of PHMATTERS. Our three featured projects highlight the skills and expertise that PierceHill brings to projects in these important sectors. 
It’s appropriate at this time of year that one of our projects – Demelza House Children’s Hospice – is also our chosen Christmas charity. Demelza is an organisation providing hospice care for over 450 children in the South East of England with life-limiting illnesses. This year, PierceHill will be making a donation to the charity instead of sending out Christmas cards.
St John’s School in Billericay, Essex, is an independent co-educational day school providing first class education for children aged from 3-16 years. Working in close association with Croydon-based architects Geraghty Taylor, Pierce Hill is performing a full range of quantity surveying and construction cost management services for a 5,000 m2 new build school that will provide a flexible and stimulating physical environment for its pupils. 
Trainee surveyor Peri Young is the latest recruit to PierceHill’s ranks. Peri has joined our Sevenoaks team in Kent following an introduction to the firm by director Andy Pilcher.
Pierce Hill’s association with London South Bank University (LSBU) was officially launched in November 2007 by director Malcolm Hill and marketing consultant Sarah Chapman who presented a series of lectures to LSBU students studying quantity surveying.
PierceHill’s chosen Christmas charity, Demelza House Children’s Hospice, has embarked on a new fund-raising initiative to help pay for the construction of its new hospice in Eltham.| Copyright PierceHill 2007 |