Ysgol Ty Ffynnon is one of the latest and best CEW Exemplar’s and is a great illustration of how construction can deliver superb community benefits for local people. 

Flintshire County Council’s School Modernisation Strategy, published in 2009, places special emphasis on community focused schools provision. 

These buildings expand the range of activities that take place in a school as they seek to provide a range of services and activities, often beyond the school day, to help meet the needs of pupils, their families and the wider community. 

This principle underpins the provision of Ty Ffynnon and the vision for the 360 pupil school is that, working with local partners, the school can help to develop the community it serves. Through a combination of collaborative procurement processes and a proactive, client focused approach from the delivery team this project is addressing one of the main issues facing the construction industry at the present time, namely the application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and, in this case, how locally based SMEs are responding to the challenges of implementation – and showing what can be done by relatively small organisations. 

BIM is also of significant interest to the wider construction industry and this particular project demonstrates how the BIM approach supports better project delivery, efficient management of project changes, cost reduction and better performance of the asset. This case study also supports the work of CEW and the Consortium of Local Authorities Wales (CLAW) in developing a BIM toolkit for public sector clients in Wales and the work of the Welsh Government via the Construction Procurement Steering Group.

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